Basch Jewelers, The Wave seek to build in Macedonia
MACEDONIA – Two businesses – Don Basch Jewelers and The Wave car wash – are seeking to move ahead with construction of new buildings in the city. They presented revised plans at the planning commission’s Feb. 14 meeting.
The Basch building would be north of Route 82, west of Fairlane Drive and behind the First Watch/AT&T building, while the car wash would be at Route 8 and Highland Road between KFC and the Key Inn.
Basch Jewelers has been part of the city’s business community for 36 years. Its current location is on the north side of Route 82, east of Fairlane Drive and beside the Winking Lizard.
The proposed 6,500-square foot building would be erected on the west side of the lot, with the entrance and parking lot on the east side. A 42-foot tower is planned on the southwest side to display signage visible from Routes 8 and 82.
The building would include space for merchandise, repairs and offices, plus a community room and kitchen. Red and brown bricks are planned, and other exterior features would be fiber cement panels, precast sills/lentils, bronze mullions and buff splitface.
A flagpole would be located near the entrance, with trees, evergreens and shrubs as landscaping around the property and a mound along the north side of the parking lot.
The panel OK’d a lot consolidation – seven parcels into one – pending the board of zoning appeals’ approval of a setback variance, which may or may not be needed. City planner Brian Frantz said a handful of other variances would be required.
Frantz also recommended a few other revisions of the plans, including the possibility of lowering the tower height slightly.
The Wave car wash
The Wave would occupy a 0.98-acre vacant lot, with access off East Highland Road. It would be be an automated tunnel-style facility, with a 3,500-square-foot east/west-situated building and a 16-by-32-foot pay kiosk with canopy to the east.
Magnolia Wash Holdings of Charlotte, N.C. is the company planning the car wash. It operates locations in South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Georgia and Virginia, and recently opened one in Brimfield Township-Portage County, south of Kent.
Frantz requested the developer to provide some stormwater management details and consider some screening/visibility improvements on the side of the property facing Route 8.
Further discussions of the two firms’ plans are likely to take place at the panel’s March 21 meeting.
Other business
The panel OK’d a plat for Coblentz Homes’ 18-lot Phase III of Spruce Hill Crossing. Three future phases of the residential development also are planned to the east, south and west of Phase III.
In Phase III, 15 lots ranging from about 5,800 to 10,600 square feet would be situated around a cul-de-sac street called Kelley Drive, west of Spruce Hill Drive, with three lots east of the latter.
Phase III encompasses 17 acres, with 3.3 acres containing the 18 lots, 12.6 acres of open space and just over one acre of right-of-way (roads). Kelley and Spruce Hill drives would measure 800 total feet.
Signage for Wayback Burgers at 463 E. Aurora Road (northeast corner of Routes 8 and 82) and BindTech at 8212 Bavaria Drive (east of Valley View Road and north of Twinsburg Road) was approved.
Wayback Burgers was allowed to install a 21-square-foot, reverse/halo lit sign with aluminum channel letters on the front of the building.
BindTech will erect a two-sided, non-illuminated, 48-by-84-inch monument sign in the same spot as a previous sign, and two signs reading “shipping” and “receiving” measuring 18 by 96 inches each on the building facade to replace existing signs.
Meanwhile, parking lot restriping and sign/light pole additions were approved in conjunction with expansion of the drive-up program at the Crossings at Golden Link’s Target store. Northfield Center Township has issued a zoning permit for the improvements.
The program is an online ordering and contactless pickup service, which will improve efficiency and safety thanks to the new signs and increased visibility.
The lot striping which marks the existing eight drive-up parking spaces with loading areas will be replaced with 12 standard parking spaces, and 24 drive-up spaces with loading areas and walk aisles will replace 38 existing spaces.
Eleven double-sided stanchion signs are proposed, along with two single-sided stanchion signs and two solar drive-up beacons. Two light poles matching the lot’s existing ones will be installed in the drive-up area.
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This article originally appeared on Akron Beacon Journal: Macedonia Planners review new Don Basch Jewelers, The Wave car wash
