On April 15, 2026, the Toledo Zoning and Planning Committee met with seven members present (Morris, Martinez, Driscoll, Gaddis, Haves, Meldon, Sarantu, Williams) to consider five zoning cases and a planning update. The meeting included a deferred case, multiple approvals, and a referral back to the Plan Commission. A tornado warning for Wood County was noted at the meeting's end.
I called the order of the zoning and planning committee on April 15th, 2026. Morris. Martinez. Driscoll. Here. Gaddis. Here. Haves. Com Ives. Here. Meldon. Here. Sarantu. Here. Williams. Here. Seven present. Okay. So we're gonna go ahead and get started here. I'm actually going to advance number five. Um Clerk, can you please uh read that? Case number five is a request for an amendment to a special use permit for a gas station expansion for the property located at 4486 Monroe Street. Case number SUP25-0048. The plan commission recommends approval subject to 19 conditions and two waivers. Okay, so the applicant is unable to be here. Um but I did want to give the community an opportunity to speak. This is gonna actually get deferred to May 20th uh per the applicant's request. Is there anyone to speak for or against this permit? See none going once, going twice. All right, we'll move on. And Clerk, if you can please start at please. Case number one is a request for a zone change from CN commercial neighborhood commercial and RS6 single dwelling residential to CO office commercial for the property located at 2500 Collingwood Boulevard, case number Z two six zero zero zero two. The plan commission recommends approval. Is the applicant here? Yes. Okay, if you could please uh uh get sworn in, please. Yes, good evening. My name is Tom Antonini, I'm General Counsel for the Diocese of Toledo. Um and just briefly, um this has been a kind of a long-term vision of ours to move our uh main headquarters of Pastoral Center from our former location on Spielbush to the Collingwood Boulevard site across the street from the cathedral, and we're really trying to um working with the old West End Historic District Commission, kind of follow their rules and guidelines and have a complimentary campus type feel. When we were back in front of that group three or four years ago, they approved the monumental sign on the new site, and then and then the project then got delayed, and in the meantime the the rules changed and no longer permit that height uh of a sign, um, and that would match the existing sign that's on the Rosary Cathedral School campus. Um so Plan Commission, and really at the urging of the old West End Historic District Commission, urging us to find a way to get those to match the plan commission suggests that we go this route for a zone change. Um so that's what we're asking the uh this council to to grant uh in accordance with the plan commission recommendation. Kevin Young from Munger Mugger Architects is here to answer any questions you might have as far as the specifications and those sorts of things, but unless there's any questions for me, I'll I'll stand down. Madam Directors So again, as the applicant said they had approval for the sign that they wanted, and then the site plan expired. By the time they got the site plan back to being approved, the sign code had changed. We are supportive of the sign because it does match across the street, and the old West Unistoric District is supportive of it. Okay. Uh is there anyone to speak for or against this uh request? Sorry, this is a little loud. Anyone to speak for or against this request?