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Beachwood High School to Revamp Richmond Entrance

District hopes to use newly-acquired property to improve entrance/exit on Richmond Road

could have a wider driveway to Richmond Road soon.

The hired a contractor at Monday’s meeting to draw plans for a new Richmond Road entrance that uses a one-acre property adjacent to the existing entrance.

The district north of the high school entrance, in January for $150,000.

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Superintendent Rich Markwardt told the Board of Education that the city had given him verbal assurance that they would work to allow the school to build a new driveway, but that they wanted to see drawings.

The property holds two residential lots. The southern, which stands empty, will be rezoned and used for the driveway.  The district’s first priority is to retain the ability for drivers to turn left from the high school, said Markwardt.

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The northern lot, which has a vacant home, poses a problem: Beachwood’s zoning code does not allow a residential property with a building to be rezoned.

Markwardt said that the lot could be cleared and landscaped, and though it would not be used for the driveway, would offer a window to the newly renovated high school from Richmond Road.


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