Explanation
Council Variance Application: CV10-015
APPLICATION: Danfer Vera; 1212 South Front Street; Columbus, OH 43206.
PROPOSED USE: A dwelling unit in the M, Manufacturing District.
COLUMBUS SOUTHSIDE AREA COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The site is developed with a warehouse/apartment building zoned in the M, Manufacturing District. The apartment received Zoning Clearance in 1986 as a resident security person's quarters on the first floor of the building. The applicant is currently living in the apartment which has expanded onto the second floor, and plans to convert warehouse space to offices. The applicant has been issued a stop work order for remodeling without a building permit, and requests the Council Variance to allow the dwelling unit so that a building permit can be granted. Since the building historically was mixed-use and contained a residential component, and other industrial and commercial buildings in the neighborhood also include residential components, Staff is supportive of the request which will not introduce an incompatible use to the area. No recommendation is being made regarding the hardship aspect of this request.
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To grant a Variance from the provisions of Section 3363.01, M-manufacturing district of the Columbus City Codes, for the property located at 1212 SOUTH FRONT STREET (43206), to permit a one dwelling unit within an existing commercial structure in the M, Manufacturing District (Council Variance # CV10-015).
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WHEREAS, by application No. CV10-015, the owner of property at 1212 SOUTH FRONT STREET (43206), is requesting a Council variance to permit a single-unit dwelling within an existing commercial structure in the M, Manufacturing District; and
WHEREAS, Section 3363.01, M-manufacturing district, prohibits single-unit dwelling use, while the applicant proposes a one dwelling unit within an existing commercial structure; and
WHEREAS, the Columbus Southside Area Commission recommends approval; and
WHEREAS, City Departments recommend approval because the building historically was mixed-use and contained a residential component, and other industrial and commercial buildings in the neighborhood also include residential components. Staff is supportive of the request which will not introduce an incompatible use to the area; and
WHEREAS, said variance will not adversely affect the surrounding property or surrounding neighborhood; and
WHEREAS, the granting of said variance will not impair an adequate supply of light and air to adjacent properties or unreasonably increase the congestion of public streets, or unreasonably diminish or impair established property values within the surrounding area, or otherwise impair the public health, safety, comfort, morals, or welfare of the inhabitants of the City of Columbus; and
WHEREAS, the granting of said variance will alleviate the difficulties encountered by the owners of the property located at 1212 SOUTH FRONT STREET (43206), in using said property as desired; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. A Variance from the provisions of Sections 3363.01, M-manufacturing district of the Columbus City Codes, is hereby granted for the property located at 1212 SOUTH FRONT STREET (43206), insofar that said sections prohibit a dwelling unit in the M, Manufacturing District; said property being more particularly described as follows:
1212 SOUTH FRONT STREET (43206), being 0.2± acres located on the east side of South High Street, 130± feet south of West Gates Street, being more particularly described as follows:
Situated in the State of Ohio, County of Franklin, and in the City of Columbus:
Being a part of Lot 14 of Dorthea Ambos First Subdivision shown of record in Plat Book 4, Page 461 and a part of a certain tract conveyed to Maude A. Mallory, shown of record in Deed Book 2365, Page 83, Recorder's Office, Franklin County, Ohio and being more particularly described as follows:
Beginning at the southwest corner of said Lot 14 above described; thence southerly on a line which is a continuation of the west line of said Lot 14 and the east line of Front Street, 80 feet to an iron pin, thence in an easterly direction and parallel to the south line of said Lot 14, a distance of 107.35 feet to a point in the west line of Wall Street; thence in a northerly direction 82.7 feet along a line which is the southerly extension of the east line of Lot 14 and the west line of Wall Street to a point two feet from an offset pin set in Wall Alley; thence North 83 degrees 54' West across said Lot 14 and into and across said Maude A. Mallory tract described above a distance of 53.86 feet to an iron pin, said iron pin being 1.80 feet south and at a right angle to the south line of said Lot 14, and to the northerly line of said Maude A. Mallory tract and parallel to the south line of Lot 14, a distance of 5.30 feet to a point, (iron pin offset 1.0 feet west); thence North 5 degrees 0' East across said Maude A. Mallory tract to a point in the southerly line of Lot 14; thence in a westerly direction along the south of Lot 14, 48 feet, more or less, to the place of beginning, containing 8,588 square feet, more or less.
Parcel Number: 010-057887
Address: 1212 South Front Street, Columbus, Ohio 43206
SECTION 2. That this ordinance is conditioned on and shall remain in effect only for so long as said property is used for a single-unit dwelling that is within a commercial structure that is used for C-4 Commercial District uses.
SECTION 3. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.