A developer has withdrawn a proposal to build a six-home subdivision on Snowville Road in Brecksville and plans to submit revised plans, delaying a scheduled public hearing on the project.

Kirk Doskocil, a Brecksville resident who owns the approximately 46-acre property on the north side of Snowville Road east of Brecksville Road, withdrew the Snowville Estates proposal from the Planning Commission's Nov. 5 meeting, cleveland.com reported.

Scott Packard, the city's chief building official, told cleveland.com on Monday, Nov. 2, that the developers had withdrawn from the meeting and planned to resubmit revised plans. The public hearing scheduled for Nov. 5 was canceled. The city has not announced when the revised proposal will be submitted or what changes it will include.

The withdrawal follows an Oct. 8 Planning Commission review in which members raised questions about screening, stormwater management and a required road improvement. The commission did not grant preliminary approval to the proposal.

Screening and stormwater concerns

The latest plan showed trees screening the proposed subdivision from existing homes to the north and west, but commission members also wanted screening along the eastern edge.

Commission Chairman Eric Lahrmer said those were the kinds of concerns residents could raise at a public hearing, according to cleveland.com.

Doskocil's attorney, John Slagter, argued that the proposed homes on the east side would be far enough from existing homes on Echo Hill Drive and Deerfield Lane that residents would not be disturbed. He said the developers would consider reasonable concerns raised by neighbors.

Stormwater management was another unresolved issue. City Engineer Gerald Wise said the subdivision would need additional measures beyond those shown in the latest plans, potentially including ponds and dry detention basins. He described the site's ravines and uneven terrain as challenging.

Chris Schmidt, a civil engineer with Davey Resources Group Inc., which is assisting Doskocil, said the plan could incorporate rain gardens and bioretention cells. Existing retention or detention basins could also be enlarged.

Earlier reviews raised broader questions about how stormwater facilities and the subdivision's private street would be maintained. In August, city planners also sought additional information about buffers for neighboring properties, zoning variances and traffic impacts, cleveland.com reported.

Snowville Road improvement still needs approval

The subdivision plan also requires lowering a section of Snowville Road east of Dewey Road to improve sight lines for drivers leaving the development.

Wise said the developers had not submitted a road-lowering agreement approved by City Council. The agreement must explain how the work would be funded.

Because the project would involve public pavement and utilities within the city's right-of-way, Wise said City Council would have to approve the funding arrangement. He also said the improvements must be fully financially guaranteed.

Slagter told cleveland.com that the developers understood the road must be lowered and the agreement approved before homes could be built.

A proposal years in the making

The property has been the subject of several subdivision proposals. In 2022, Doskocil and Broadview Heights-based Petros Development Group presented options for 45 homes or 26 homes on the site. The Planning Commission considered both proposals too dense.

The developers later reduced the proposal to 13 lots and then 12. The commission granted preliminary approval to the 12-lot plan in December 2023, according to cleveland.com.

Doskocil and Petros later parted ways after the project encountered financing difficulties, Slagter told the commission. Doskocil continued working on the property independently and redesigned the proposal as six estate-style lots, each measuring at least 6 acres, intended for custom homes.

The six-home concept was presented to the Planning Commission in February 2026. The commission did not take action at that meeting but offered feedback on the proposal, including concerns about the site's topography and the need to improve sight distances along Snowville Road, Scriptype reported.

No new hearing date or resubmission timeline has been announced.