Planners vote to split 9 acres at Kettering business center

More than nine acres surrounded by three main roads should be split into four lots, the Kettering Planning Commission has recommended.

The plan favored 5-0 by the commission Monday night would divide land at the Kettering Triangle Center between Stroop Road, Wilmington Pike and Woodman Drive.

The commission’s recommendation follows a Dayton-area restaurant chain’s applications for liquor permits in the vicinity.

If approved by Kettering City Council, the land would be split “into four new parcels of varying size,” City Planner David Roller said.

The lots would range in size from 0.87 to 4.88 acres, Kettering records show.

“The lot lines would basically follow the existing layout and development,” Roller added. “There would be one lot created that is currently vacant … everything else encapsulates the current layout of the land.”

The lot split was requested by McDougall-Marsh Land Surveyors of Miamisburg. It wants to divide 9.2 acres at 1942-1950 E. Stroop, land now owned by SWG Kettering LLC, which has an Atlanta address, according to the city and county records.

TJ Chumps last month filed for two liquor permits in that corridor, Ohio Division of Liquor Control records show.

The sports bar has locations in Englewood, Fairborn, Huber Heights and Miamisburg. TJ Chumps co-owner Jim Dunn has declined to comment on the liquor license applications, which are for D5 and D6 permits.

The land on which the commission voted is developed and occupied by two mixed-use commercial centers, a fast-food restaurant, a vehicle rental business, a drivethru ATM and a vacant area once occupied by a fitness center, Kettering documents state.

The area includes several parcels owned by the city and those will be dedicated as right of way, Roller said.