Pole barn services in Akron, OH

The National Weather Service's Cleveland office has listed a seasonal snowfall normal of 47.5 inches at Akron-Canton Airport, about 20 inches less than Cleveland's 68.1, with a station record of 82 inches in the winter of 1977-78. Akron sees less lake-effect snow than the shoreline counties, although the northern half of Summit County still falls in the secondary snowbelt. On city lots the practical issue is where the snow goes. Akron lets rear-yard accessory buildings sit as close as three feet to a lot line, so we pay attention to which way a steel roof sheds and add snow guards or gutters where sliding snow would land on a neighbor's yard, an alley or a walkway.

Akron runs a two-track review. The city's Plans & Permits Center at 1030 E. Tallmadge Ave. reviews zoning, fire prevention, grading and paving, and sewer items, while the Summit County Department of Building Standards does a separate plan review at the same time under the Ohio Building Code or the Residential Code of Ohio. The city's own building department was combined with the county office in 2009. Plans go in as PDFs through the city's online Plan Review and Permit Portal, and a zoning rejection can be taken to a zoning appeal. Akron has also proposed zoning updates, so we check the current code for every project.