Westside Messenger - February 26th, 2023
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PAGE 6 - WESTSIDE MESSENGER - <strong>February</strong> 26, <strong>2023</strong><br />
By Hannah Poling<br />
Staff Writer<br />
Westland Area Commissioners approved a rezoning<br />
request for a multi-family housing development. The<br />
action was taken at the <strong>February</strong> monthly meeting.<br />
Joe Thomas, director of development at Metro<br />
Development LLC, attended to the meeting to present the<br />
zoning requests for the property at 6410 Old Hall<br />
Road in Galloway.<br />
The property is 160 acres in total with a large<br />
part of it in the Darby Accord. Since some of the<br />
land is unable to be developed, Thomas said they<br />
would be donating 126 acres to Columbus Parks<br />
and Recreation once the property is purchased.<br />
Thomas also said that Prairie Township is interested<br />
in a portion of the property.<br />
Metro Development plans to build two multifamily<br />
housing communities on the property near<br />
Hall and Galloway roads. According to Thomas,<br />
this will be completed in two phases.<br />
The communities will be made up of one, two,<br />
and three-bedroom apartments that would range<br />
in price from $1,100 to $1,800 per month. The communities<br />
include amenities such as a pool, community<br />
center, and fitness center for residents to<br />
enjoy.<br />
According to Thomas, the company met with<br />
residents in close proximity to the property and<br />
will work to resolve their concerns, such as how<br />
close the buildings originally were planned to<br />
Galloway road, privacy fencing, shrub screening,<br />
and turn lanes and road improvements.<br />
The commissioners added a few restrictions to<br />
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Housing proposal approved at Westland Area Commission<br />
the proposal. The commissioners said that the property<br />
owners should work with the city of Columbus on a park<br />
plan and they should also work with Prairie Township on<br />
stormwater management plans.<br />
The commission voted 11-0 in approval of the variances<br />
requested by Metro Development and 9-2 in approval of<br />
the zoning request.<br />
Representatives from American Electric Power (AEP)<br />
also attended the meeting to speak about outages that<br />
occurred in the area in both June and December.<br />
According to AEP representative Angie Rybalt, in June<br />
there was a significant storm in the midwest. Although<br />
Columbus did not see a lot of the damage, high winds<br />
caused significant damage to large transmission lines.<br />
Some of those lines went down and were severely damaged.<br />
The temperatures rose to a heat index of 110, so the<br />
lines that remained quickly became overloaded and AEP<br />
was “forced to do an emergency outage.”<br />
According to Rybalt, the problems in December were a<br />
result of a supply issue. In June, AEP did not have the<br />
infrastructure in place to get electricity to residents'<br />
homes.<br />
AEP’s coordinator PJM asked the company to conserve<br />
electricity to help prevent grid protection power outages.<br />
Due to the combined actions of the public grid protection,<br />
power outages were not needed.<br />
According to Rybalt, the company is making strides to<br />
provide faster information and develop better systems to<br />
prevent these outages and more quickly resolve future<br />
occurrences.<br />
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Hilltop History & Heritage<br />
This photo from March 1971 features five members of Oakley Baptist Church at an awards banquet.<br />
Shown to the left is Helen Ashburn, wife of Oakley Baptist Church’s Pastor, Reverend Jacob Julian “JJ”<br />
Ashburn. Helen’s daughter, Rachel Ashburn Mallory, is standing next to her mother. Judge Wilbur Shull,<br />
who served 18 years on the Franklin County Municipal Court, can be seen in the left background of the<br />
photo. The church then was located at 64 South Highland Ave. and since has moved to its current location,<br />
3415 El Paso Drive. If you have a photo to share, contact Stacy Berndsen-Campbell at stacyberndsen12@gmail.com.
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