RAISING CANE’S DEVELOPER CONSIDERING CHANGE TO SITE
Raising Cane’s developer nixes Far Hills Avenue site.
The local franchisee KETTERING — for Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers has withdrawn its request for a proposed site near Stroop Road and Far Hills Avenue.
At issue is the zoning of the location at 3910 Far Hills Ave., which most recently housed an OinkADoodleMoo location. Kettering officials have previously recommended the project be denied.
Kettering City Council had set a date to hold a public hearing this month regarding the proposed location, but that meeting has been cancelled.
RCO Limited, a franchisee of Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers and the local franchise operator for Ohio, told this news organization that if the zoning issues couldn’t be overcome, the project couldn’t move forward at that site.
“It has always been and always will be our intention to be the best community partner and be engaged and supportive in every community we have the opportunity to grow with,” RCO Limited said in a statement. “We look forward to finding opportunities to join the Kettering community. Right now, we are focused on and excited for our second Dayton area restaurant opening on Oct. 30 in Beavercreek.”
City Planner David Roller said the developers had a hearing in front of the Kettering Planning Commission, which was the first step in a three-step process to review the proposed restaurant. City staff recommended to council following the hearing that the project be denied because it didn’t meet zoning code requirements.
The proposed site would have included the former OinkADoodleMoo restaurant at 3910 Far Hills Ave., which shut down in August 2015 after failing to renegotiate its lease. The space previously housed a Chipotle restau-
rant and, decades earlier, the Kettering Village Inn.
“The property at 3920 Far Hills Ave. is zoned appropriately for fast food,” Roller said. “However, the small lot size is not conducive to such a use.”
The first Dayton-area Raising Cane’s location opened last summer at 1136 Miamisburg-Centerville Road in Washington Twp. The Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based chain operates multiple restaurants in the Columbus and Cincinnati areas.