Open House #4 shares the results of the rich and productive co-creation visioning process between our community and our planning consultants that will underpin plan recommendations for the First and Grandview District Plan. Thank you for your interest and input over the past many months! – with luck your vision will become our community legacy, enhancing life in this District and our community overall for generations to come. Materials presented at Open House #4 are available on this page under "Open House #4 Documents".

NEXT STEPS TOWARDS ADOPTION

Following this fourth and final Open House, the consultant team will prepare the compiled formal planning document for consideration by the City’s Planning Commission. The Planning Commission will review, discuss, consider and recommend any needed further refinements. Once these refinements are incorporated, typically Planning Commission will then vote to adopt the final plan, and make a recommendation to City Council for consideration of confirmation via Resolution.

The draft document is anticipated to appear before the Planning Commission in early 2025.

Planning Commission meeting agendas are posted on the City of Grandview Heights website one week before each meeting. You can also download the GH311 app on your smartphone to receive notifications about public meetings.

ADDITIONAL STUDIES

Additionally, through and during the community engagement process over the past several months, zoning code parking requirements, fiscal realities and engineering complexities have been revealed as leading considerations requiring further study before proceeding from plan adoption to undertaking formal Zoning Code revisions in alignment with the plan. Related, in 2025 the City anticipates undertaking these further study initiatives:

Parking Capacity and Operations: Inspired by anticipated densification of neighborhoods to our north in the City of Columbus resulting from their recent rezoning effort (ZoneIn), combined with changing modes of transportation in our region, and in order to better understand the optimal balance and uses for available on-street parking, and off-street parking requirements, that will best support the pedestrian environment, flourishing small businesses, and town character outcomes preferred by the community for this District.

Fiscal Impact Analyses: Relating to the costs of proposed public infrastructure improvements, implementation impacts on existing businesses and homeowners and related phasing strategies, and the feasibility of revised zoning parameters on private redevelopment.

• Public Investments: Public right-of-way improvements contemplated by the plan, and related underground utility replacements, are expensive and disruptive. With our City Engineer, we will dive in to further understanding costs, funding sources, and implementation phasing considerations for investments within the rights-of-way along Grandview Avenue and W First Ave. We will specifically begin studying these questions as they relate to Grandview Avenue, due to the relatively poorer existing conditions there and related need for more immediate improvements in certain areas. Additional discussions with businesses and neighbors along this corridor can be anticipated through the study and implementation process (which may occur over a period of years), as well.
• Private Investments and Public/Private Partnership Opportunities: With an independent development economics consultant, we will further evaluate how things like height limitations, setback requirements, and architectural character and landscaping design standards may interface with private investment project feasibility. This consultant is also anticipated to assist with the City’s analysis of available economic development tools that may best support private redevelopment outcomes preferred by the community as expressed in the Plan.

FUTURE ACTIONS

With the above-described additional information in hand, sometime late in 2025 or early 2026, the City anticipates returning to consideration of Zoning Code changes, updates to our Design Guidelines, and other possible actions in order to better position the City to guide investments in this area towards outcomes envisioned in the adopted First and Grandview District Plan.

With changes to the District consistent with the planning vision anticipated to occur over many years and through the care and contributions of many public and private parties, formally solidifying the development framework can be expected to support coordinated evolution towards the First and Grandview District Plan, over time.