City’s ZBA denies Sheetz sign variance request

The Eastpoine Zoning Board of Appeals voted unanimously final week to refuse a drawing variant request from Sheetz.

The corporate established in Pennsylvania is constructing a brand new Sheetz filling station and grocery store on 19001 9 Mile Street on the northwestern nook of Beaconsfield Avenue.

Town vacation spot regulation requires that monument indicators are positioned no less than 10 toes of the prevailing precedence of the precedence. Sheetz requested for a variance of 4.58 toes within the try to position their monument signal 5.42 toes from the lead.

Zoning advisor Kyle Inbody spoke on Thursday night on behalf of Sheetz and stated that the variance was requested as a result of the Eastpoids -unaniminable good was smarter than typical sheetz constructing websites and that shifting the monument signal tankers and Semi vans would give extra space the place he may safely maneuver.

“Shifting the board creates a safety buffer,” stated Inbody. “I perceive that tries to carry the whole lot into compliance, however at this location the signal is nearer to the road akin to different properties in that space.”

Stadsplanner Paul Urbiel ordered the refusal of the request to point in its written report back to the ZBA that the data within the utility from Sheetz didn’t meet the requirements for granting the variance.

“The intention of the 10-foot setback from the foreground is precedence to keep up the imaginative and prescient within the corridors,” Urbiel stated. “It will increase security and contributes to aesthetics, so that there’s an ordered viewers wealthy and the developed websites behind it.”

Urbiel stated that if the signal was positioned on the spot that means, this could endanger the likelihood for drivers at Beaconsfield Avenue to see the visitors within the east on 9 Mile Street. The unique drawing request was refused, he stated, due to that obstructive issue.

“I do know that the assertion of the applicant is that if the board was not moved, this could have an effect on the loading with the vans, however I feel there are a number of different design options to deal with that downside as an alternative of shifting the board,” Urbiel stated.

Urbiel additionally famous that current indicators at different firms that fall outdoors the parameters of the present vacation spot regulation are usually not just lately permitted. ZBA chairman Cliff Wilson stated it’s the job of the board to make sure that firms are in accordance with the present vacation spot regulation.

“At a sure level I feel the town ought to cease contemplating somebody making an attempt to vary a web site plan after it had already been authorized,” stated resident Mary Corridor-Rayford. “Folks do not wish to adjust to the foundations; they assume they’re an exception after they have probably not offered themselves as such.”

Sheetz goes to the placement of the previous Workplace Depot retailer. That constructing was demolished whereas Sheetz is making ready for constructing his gas heart on the constructing.

On July 17, the ZBA of the town denied a drawing variant utility from Hashish -Retailer Moses Roses equally.

Initially printed: August 27, 2025 at 10:05 am Edt