Nithin Naikar had a simple, three-step plan for augmenting his schoolwork while learning from home: Learn programming, build a done from scratch and teach it to diagnose disease.
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The land at the northeast corner of Shanahan and North roads will remain undeveloped for the foreseeable future.
The Orange Township trustees rejected a rezoning request for the 24-acre parcel during a May 19 public hearing.
Metro Development had sought to rezone the land from single-family planned residential to multifamily planned residential for the construction of 144 condominium units in 2-story structures, to have been called the Reserve at North Farms.
The plan was recommended for approval by the township’s zoning commission in April by a 3-2 vote, with opposition among area residents.
Trustees voted 2-1 to deny the zoning commission’s recommendation, with trustee Ryan Rivers dissenting.
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Olentangy Schools will begin construction on a new middle school in June.
The school, which has not been named, will be the district’s sixth middle school. It will be built on 45 acres along Piatt Road, south of Olentangy Berlin High School, in Berlin Township.
“The addition of a sixth middle school to the district will provide the necessary relief needed on the growing enrollment in our current middle schools, particularly in the northeast region,” Superintendent Mark Raiff said in a release. “Middle school six will be the district’s third new building in the past five years, and I continue to be proud of the support of our students by our community.”
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A new proposed plan to improve the intersection at state Route 315 and Jewett Road in Liberty Township would preserve some historical property that had been threatened by earlier designs.
The Ohio Department of Transportation unveiled the plan in a public meeting held virtually May 6.
The plan calls for a traffic signal and left-turn lane from northbound Route 315 at the intersection. A design shared last fall called for a roundabout that would have required the removal of a historical barn near the southwest corner of the intersection.
“It would appear ODOT listened to the various opinions and information and revisited the project design,” Mark Rush, who lives on Route 315 just south of the intersection, told ThisWeek. “I’m pleased it didn’t fall on deaf ears.”
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The Delaware County Board of Elections voted 3-0 on May 4 to certify a petition to place the matter on the November ballot.
Residents sought the referendum after the township trustees approved Planned Overlay District 18, creating a roughly 190-acre zoning overlay for mixed-use development north of Hyatts Road, primarily between Sawmill Parkway and Liberty Road, on March 15.
Anthony Saadey, assistant director of the board of elections, confirmed the certification vote. He said board member Steve Cuckler, who had served as attorney for the developers, Metro Development, throughout the zoning process, had “recused himself from all business related to this matter.”