Proposed development draws opposition
Residents say proposal doesn’t meet township guidelines, standards.
The multimillion-dollar plan calls for 88 homes to be built on nearly 32 acres in Miami Twp.
A multimillion-dollar MIAMI TWP. — plan to build 88 homes on nearly 32 acres in Miami Twp. is drawing opposition from neighboring residents for what one called a “drastic” change in quality.
The proposal — Rivendell — calls for $300,000 to $400,000 houses by Ryan Homes north of the Dayton Mall and east of Ohio 741 to be built near the Vienna Park subdivision, officials said.
Ryan Homes is seeking to build “cottage — or what we’re calling craftsmen elevations — homes,” similar types of houses it has constructed in Beavercreek and at Yankee Trace in Centerville, said Mark Locke, the company’s representative.
“We want to do something nice,” Locke told township zoning officials recently at a meeting which drew more than 70 people, many of them Vienna Park residents.
But the request for a major modification to the development plan approved a decade ago calls for changes that nearby residents fear will have a negative impact on their community and — in some cases — don’t meet township standards.
The proposed changes fall short of meeting township guidelines for residential lot frontage, and front and side yard setbacks, records show. Township documents also show the