Written with the help of AI from the Beavercreek City Council agenda, Monday, November 9, 2026 and the meeting video.
What was on the agenda
This recap is based on the meeting video and the official agenda for the Beavercreek City Council’s regular meeting on Monday, November 9, 2026. The agenda packet and video do not include a list of legislation approved, so this recap does not report which items passed.
Why it matters: Staff said the Shakertown Road widening needs property petitions filed by year-end to keep its $2,407,500 in grant funding, with construction set to begin in March 2027.
The agenda listed 18 ordinances for second reading as emergencies, each appropriating (taking by legal process) property interests from owners along Shakertown Road for the road widening project. Ordinance 26-25, covering a separate property, was noted as settled and no longer needed. The agenda also listed first readings of four Kemp Road widening ordinances (26-45, 26-46, 26-48 and 26-51), each paired with a right-of-way resolution (26-71, 26-72, 26-74 and 26-77). Also listed were Resolution 26-79, an application for a PDAC grant, and the Third Quarter Financial Report as a decision item.
Shakertown Road background
At the October 26 meeting, according to the minutes in the agenda packet, the city engineer described the project as widening Shakertown Road from Carthage Drive to Southern Belle Boulevard to three lanes with curb, gutter, storm sewer and sidewalks. He said it carries $2,407,500 in grant funding that required a local match, and that bidding, utility relocation and construction would begin in March 2027. He said 12 of 32 affected properties had been settled at that point.
Legal counsel said the emergency readings were needed to give his office time to file court petitions and keep the project on schedule. The city engineer said the timeline runs to the end of the year so the grant funding is not lost. Counsel said the takes in the Shakertown ordinances are temporary, for grading or storm sewer, and that owners remain entitled to compensation. At that meeting, several residents objected to the use of emergency readings.
Wawa public hearing
The main presentation was the public hearing on case PC 26-5, an administrative site plan review for a Wawa vehicle service station at 4465 Indian Ripple Road. The 2.25-acre site holds a closed restaurant building that would be demolished. The proposed building is 6,372 square feet, with eight fuel pumps under a canopy providing 16 pump-side parking spaces.
A Wawa representative said the company is employee-owned, owns and operates all of its stores and does not franchise. He said the site is the former Tim Hortons and that Wawa received a favorable vote from the Planning Commission.
City planning staff said the site is zoned B3, where a vehicle service station is a conditional use. The Planning Commission granted that conditional use contingent on council approving the site plan. Staff said the plan meets setback rules and requires 41 parking spaces, with 58 shown. It includes a pickup-only lane for online orders, and Wawa agreed to switch a white exterior finish to composite fiber-cement board.
The building stands 21 feet, 9 inches to the top of the parapet wall, with architectural flares reaching 27 feet. Wall signs are proposed on all four sides, which staff called slightly more than typical but acceptable given the building’s setback from higher-speed roads. Wall signs shown were 91 square feet on the south, 64 on the west and 30 on the east. Wawa asked for two 10-foot ground signs, and staff added a condition limiting them to five feet total, a four-foot face on a one-foot base. Staff said the Planning Commission recommended approval, staff recommends approval, and 19 conditions are attached to the motion.
The site has no new curb cuts. It uses an existing access drive through neighboring property under a permanent access agreement, plus a right-in, right-out access to Stroop Road. A Montgomery County water tower sits in an easement on the site, and staff said access for the county will be maintained.
Questions from council
One council member raised the landscaping plan, saying the crimson pygmy barberry is considered invasive in Ohio counties including Greene and has been linked to tick habitat, and that the boxwood moth has damaged boxwoods across Beavercreek. The Wawa representative said he would take that into account.
Another council member asked staff to clarify the sign height, which staff confirmed is five feet overall. The same member asked about access to Indian Ripple Road and how fuel trucks would get in, given congestion on both streets and difficulty turning left from the road. The Wawa representative said the fuel truck comes about three times a week, that trucks would likely arrive from I-675 and turn left into the site where a turn lane exists, and that Wawa’s peak hours are breakfast and lunch rather than dinner. Another council member thanked the company for investing in the community.
The meeting video reviewed ends during council discussion of the application, so no decision on it is reported here.
What residents raised
Several residents spoke at the hearing. Most voiced concerns about traffic. They cited frequent accidents between the highway and Stroop Road, difficulty making left turns from Indian Ripple Road, the mix of fuel trucks, motorhomes and trailers, and pedestrian safety for teenagers crossing to The Greene. One resident asked for a traffic flow plan.
Residents also questioned the number of gas stations nearby. One said there are six within a mile, and another asked for a different kind of business at the site. Several said they had no objection to Wawa itself.
One resident asked whether the water tower is fed by well water or city water, given underground fuel tanks. A representative of the applicant said the plans were sent to the Montgomery County Engineering Department and to the Ohio EPA, that neither raised an issue, and that the tower is city-fed as far as he knew. A resident who said he previously served on council described the history of the water tower and said traffic complaints cannot be grounds for turning down a development that meets the code.
Source: Beavercreek City Council agenda, Monday, November 9, 2026. Meeting video: watch on YouTube.
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