Summit Township approves mobile home park, storage building variances
SUMMIT TOWNSHIP — Summit Township Zoning Hearing Board has approved variance requests for a proposed mobile home park and a storage building on two properties off Route 618.
The approvals are contingent upon completion of the land sale to TJP1 Holdings LLC of Conneaut Lake, Coletta Reitinger confirmed to the Tribune on Friday. Reitinger chairs of the Summit Township Zoning Hearing Board.
The board approved the variance requests on 5-0 votes following a Wednesday night public hearing at Harmonsburg Presbyterian Church.
TJP1 Holdings, headed by Todd Joseph, sought variances as it wants to buy two adjoining large lots currently owned by Snow Waters Development LLC of San Jose, California.
Tim Vago of Los Gatos, California, is listed as the manager/member of Snow Waters Development LLC, according to business records on file with the California Secretary of State.
The project site has two lots north of Reed Avenue and along the west side of Route 618.
TJP1 Holdings would put in an 80-unit mobile home park on the site as well as a separate storage building, measuring 150 feet by 200 feet, for motorboat storage, according to the filing made with Summit Township.
The proposed mobile home park needed variances as part of it would be on one lot within a single-family residential zone and partially on a lot zoned as a business zoning district.
Under the Summit Township Zoning Ordinance, a mobile home park is not a permitted use, special exception or conditional use in either a single-family residential or a business zone.
The storage building is in the single-family residential zone lot, which is not a permitted use, special exception or conditional use in a residential zone under the ordinance.
According to its filing, TJP1 Holdings also plans additional motorboat storage facilities on the lot zoned for business, which is permitted in a business zone. There would be a total of 180,000 square feet of boat storage.
The proposed project is on lots of the former Snow Waters development initially proposed in 2006 by Jeff Davenport, the property's then-owner.
Davenport wanted to build Snow Waters Harbor Village and Golf Course in 2006. It was to include 183 townhomes — an update of the former Park Golf Course — a restaurant, a clubhouse and a marina with a connection to Conneaut Lake. The project never came to fruition.
Previously, a portion of the site was home to the Jo-Winn/ 4-J Trailer Court, a mobile home park, which Davenport had purchased as part of his proposed Snow Waters development.
