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Avon Lake Power Plant Rezoning Moves Forward with New Lakefront Mixed-Use Overlay
Avon Lake's Economic Development Committee is reviewing the Chapter 1219 Lakefront Mixed-Use Overlay District — the zoning framework that would govern what gets built on the former power plant site — along with infrastructure, economic, and fiscal analyses for the redevelopment.
Avon Lake's Collective Committee meeting on April 20 stacked the Power Plant Redevelopment Project near the top of the Economic Development Committee agenda, with five items queued up for discussion: the Chapter 1219 Lakefront Mixed-Use Overlay District, related rezoning requirements, an infrastructure plan, an economic and market analysis, and a fiscal impact analysis.
The Chapter 1219 overlay is the zoning framework that dictates what a developer can actually build on the former coal-fired power plant site — density, use mix, building heights, waterfront setbacks, public-access requirements. A mixed-use overlay typically layers on top of existing zoning to allow residential plus commercial plus public uses in a single district, which is the pattern most lakefront industrial sites convert into.
The broader Power Plant Redevelopment Project has been running on paid consulting contracts since 2023 — Avon Lake Environmental Redevelopment Group, based in Louisville, has been retained on professional-services amendments totaling north of $731,000. An overlay district moving to committee discussion is the first public sign that the redevelopment is crossing from consulting and analysis into actual code-level zoning decisions.
Other items on the same agenda: a Walker Road Phase 6 and Electric Boulevard Bridge bond resolution, the Moore Road purchase, a Veterans Park Gazebo grant agreement, and third reading of Ordinance 26-31 (a one-day beer-and-wine permit for Summerfest at Miller Road Park on June 20).