A plan, which is still in its early stages, has been presented to Scio Township that, if ultimately approved, would bring a new location for gas and food to the northwest corner of I-94 and Baker Road.
The plan’s first step, which is a rezoning request, has gone before the Scio Township Planning Commission a couple of times since the fall with the latest on January 12, where the planning commission did vote to recommend to the township board with conditions the approval of the plan’s conditional rezoning to C-3.
This step in the planning process is purely the rezoning phase. The plan, if given rezoning approval by the township board, would then need to go back to the planning commission and township board for a possible conditional use approval for several of the uses as well as a site plan approval.
At this point, the company is asking for a Conditional Rezoning of approximately 14.911 acres from R-1 (Single-Family Residential) to C-3 (Highway Commercial). The developer doesn’t own the location in question currently, but is in contract with it…