Canfield trustees set zone-change hearing

CANFIELD -- A public hearing on a zone change and a preliminary plan for a controversial planned unit development will be at 6 p.m. May 23 before the Canfield Township trustees' 7 p.m. meeting.
Trustees will hear reports from the Mahoning County Planning Commission and the Canfield Township Zoning Commission on the PUD in the Westbury Park subdivision off Gibson Road.
Dave Morrison, zoning inspector, said the county planning commission denied the zone change, but the township zoning commission approved it last week. Trustees have the final say on the zone change.
Westbury Park residents who live in single-family homes are upset at the idea of an 87-unit PUD on 45 acres in the center of the subdivision. The residents had proposed allowing 22.5 acres to be zoned PUD. They said that while they were buying their homes they were never told the PUD would be so close to their homes.