Newly-named Boardman Township Director of Zoning and Development, Krista Beniston, was welcomed to the township’s administrative team at an open house held on Monday, prior to an evening meeting of the Board of Trustees.
Beniston will earn $60,289 a year in the post and replaces the township’s recently named Road Superintendent, Marilyn Kenner, in the zoning post. Kenner had served in a dual capacity as head of the zoning and road departments since July 1, following the resignation of Sarah Gartland as zoning/planning director; and the retirement of Road Chieftan Larry Wilson.
Beniston, a Mar., 2008 graduate of Miami University, comes to Boardman Township after working with the Akron (Oh.) Metropolitan Area Transportation Study (AMATS) since Oct., 2008
Since Feb., 2011, she served as a planning and transportation planner with AMATS.
In her role with AMATS, Beniston says she played a leadership role “in the development [of the agency] from a roads and bridges transportation agency to a dynamic organization driving community change through innovative transportation and land use planning and funding.”
From July, 2007 - June, 2008, Beniston worked as a planning assistant with the city of Dublin, Oh., where a portion of her duties included zoning-related work.
She earned a masters degree from the Ohio State University in Mar., 2008 with a major in city and regional planning.
PICTURED: AN OPEN HOUSE WAS HELD ON Monday afternoon to welcome Boardman Township’s new director of zoning and planning, Krista Beniston. Pictured, from left, longtime Boardman Township Zoning Board of Appeals Chairman Atty. John Shultz, Larry Moliterno, chairman of the Boardman Township Board of Trustees; Mrs. Beniston; and Larry Liguore, former Boardman Trustee and current member of the Boardman Zoning Board of Appeals.