NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio -- A North Royalton resident plans to extend Kimrose Lane -- currently a dead-end street just east of State Road -- and build 10 new luxury homes and a cul-de-sac there.
Nicholas Gorey, who lives on Kimrose, would build the homes on about 11 acres he has acquired. Home prices would range from $1 million to $1.5 million, he told cleveland.com earlier this week.
The North Royalton Planning Commission approved a sketch plan of the development April 16.
“There will be more detailed information required moving forward,” Ian Russell, North Royalton’s city planner, told cleveland.com last week.
“There were questions brought up regarding potential wetlands onsite and stormwater drainage,” Russell said.
“These will need to be addressed in future submittals.”
Gorey told cleveland.com that his plan already addresses the stormwater runoff and flooding -- at least to some degree -- that has affected existing homes and lots on Kimrose, which is part of the Ashley Woods subdivision.
Gorey said the original Ashley Woods subdivision was built with a swale, designed to channel excess stormwater away from homes.
Years later, in 2022, City Council enacted an ordinance that requires stormwater catch basins on all new residential lots.
Existing parcels on Kimrose don’t have catch basins because Ashley Woods was built before that law went into effect.
The 10 new lots on Kimrose will have catch basins. Gorey said four of those new lots will back up to seven existing lots, providing some stormwater relief for those existing properties by taking water into the new catch basins.
Gorey’s plan also includes a retention pond to help with stormwater management.
Gorey recently obtained two vacant parcels just east of the Kimrose dead-end to create a site for the 10 new homes.
He acquired at least one of those parcels in March 2021, according to the Cuyahoga County Fiscal Office website.
According to Gorey’s sketch plan, most of the new lots would measure slightly more than a half-acre. At least one of the lots would measure more than 1 acre.
Gorey said if the city approves his plan, he would sell each lot to individual custom builders.
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