BATAVIA TOWNSHIP, Ohio — A zoning commission meeting on Thursday was packed to capacity in Batavia Township as the board members considered two separate housing developments that, combined, would add more than 1,000 homes and 48,000 square feet of commercial space to the region.

People living in the township showed up to ask the board to reject one of the two developments that account for 808 homes and the commercial space named Stonelick Ridge along Olive Branch Stonelick Rd.

You asked us at our first Let’s Talk session in September to cover aggressive developments in Clermont County, and this meeting was one of the highest priorities brought about at that event.

Kim Sears said this was the first time she’d ever attended a Zoning Board meeting.

“Who’s going to pay for the new scho

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