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Upper Arlington board approves setback variances for Summit Ridge home after neighbors raise septic and erosion concerns

City of Upper Arlington Board of Zoning and Planning · February 25, 2026
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Summary

The Board of Zoning and Planning approved variances for 4462 Summit Ridge Drive allowing side-yard and front-yard encroachments, conditioned on a landscape screening and tree-preservation plan after neighbors warned of septic, drainage and Slate Run impacts.

The City of Upper Arlington Board of Zoning and Planning on Feb. 25 approved a variance for 4462 Summit Ridge Drive that allows encroachments into required setbacks, subject to a landscape screening plan approved by the city forester and a tree-preservation plan.

Liz Alexander, representing Compass Homes, told the board the company sought either a reinstatement of a variance granted in January 2024 or a new variance under the Unified Development Ordinance. "We are asking this board to reach the determination that that prior variance ... is still valid," Alexander said, and alternatively asked the board to find the factors in UDO 4.09(d) are met.

Neighbors raised environmental and design…

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