Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Developers plan to add 155 off-site parking spaces on Horning Road for 520-bedroom complex
The last of two official hurdles for the University Oaks student apartment complex on Horning Road have been cleared. The Kent Planning Commission voted 3-1 Tuesday night to approve the site plan and grant rooming and boarding house status for the 520-bedroom complex. The planning commission vote follows approval of a parking variance for the project granted Monday by the Kent Board of Zoning Appeals. The planning commission approved the rooming house status, which allows more than two unrelated tenants to live in the three-bedroom units, subject to the condition that there be no more than a 1-to-1 ratio of tenants to bedrooms throughout the complex. It was the same condition the zoning board attached to its parking variance for the …
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Owners of student apartment complex go to Kent Planning Commission for site plan vote tonight
The Kent Board of Zoning Appeals gave a variance to the owners of the University Oaks apartment complex Monday to allow fewer parking spots for the complex than required by city code. The zoning board voted unanimously to grant the variance, which allows the complex to have 540 parking spaces whereas city code requires 650 spaces based on the total number of bedrooms: 520. Under city code, rooming houses are required to have 1.25 parking spaces for every bedroom — thus the requirement for 520 parking spots for each bedroom plus 130 for visitors. The variance is one of two requirements for the complex, as the Kent Planning Commission will vote on the project's site plan tonight that includes plans for 155 off-site parking spaces on Horning …
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500 Silver Oaks Dr, Kent, OH
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Kent Planning Commission tables vote for two weeks
A request for rooming house status by the owner of the University Oaks apartment complex has been delayed for at least two weeks. The Kent Planning Commission voted Tuesday to table their decision on the request, which would change the zoning status of the Horning Road complex. The rooming house status would allow the developers to rent all three bedrooms in their three bedroom units to unrelated tenants. As it stands, the property's existing R-4 zoning status — like all residential properties in the city — does not permit renting to more than two unrelated tenants per unit. Anderson Neigbors, the chief operating officer of Alabama-based Capstone Real Estate Investments, which owns the property, said the status is necessary in order to …
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Applicant withdraws parking variance request; will return in June with new request
Whether or not a proposed project in Kent has enough parking seems to be the key question as of late for the city's planning boards. The Kent Board of Zoning Appeals listened to a parking variance request from the company turning the former Silver Oaks Place apartments into the "University Oaks" student apartments this week, but ultimately the firm asked the board to table their vote on the issue until next month after zoning board members expressed concerns over their parking proposal. Capstone Real Estate Investments initially wanted a variance from the board so that off-site parking for the apartments could be 820 feet from the property line, whereas the zoning code doesn't allow off-site parking to be more than 700 feet away. That …
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500 Silver Oaks Dr, Kent, OH
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Kent State University offers parking for "University Oaks" complex on Rhodes Road
Editor's note: this article was updated May 29 at 12:40 p.m. The new owners of what was a senior retirement complex in Kent, previously filled with single-family occupants, are looking to convert the entire complex into a rooming and boarding house units. The owners of University Oaks Apartments, formerly Silver Oaks Place, have asked the city for a change in status from a single-family apartment complex to a rooming and boarding house status. Anderson Neighbors, the chief operating officer of Alabama-based Capstone Real Estate Investments, told the Kent Board of Zoning Appeals this week that they want the change in status in order to rent each individual bedroom in their separate apartments. The complex has 3 bedroom, 2 bath units and 3 …
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
All information is according to the Kent Community Development Department
The clubhouse at the former Silver Oaks Place retirement complex is getting a big face lift as developers of the complex turn it into student apartments. The city of Kent recently issued a building permit to CDC Kent LLC for renovation of the clubhouse at "University Oaks." The renovation is expected to cost $150,000, according to the building permit. The 200-plus unit apartment complex is in the midst of a massive transformation from former senior housing to student apartments. Other building permits recently issued by the city include:
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731 Dominion Dr, Kent, OH
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921 Franklin Ave, Kent, OH
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716 Allerton St, Kent, OH
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373 Silver Meadows Blvd, Kent, OH
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Tom Tucker
8:53 am on Thursday, June 21, 2012
Spare me, Pat, along with your attempt you actually know what you're talking about. I am wide awake and do not drink coffee. You, on the other hand, need to pull your ignorant, conspiracy-theory head out of your backside. If you "don't want students in your neighborhood", then why in the heck did you buy property IN A COLLEGE TOWN? Not to mention, your on-the-edge rambling had NOTHING to do with … more ›