Explanation
Rezoning Application: Z04-025
APPLICANT: Townsend Construction Company; c/o Dave Perry, Agent; The Dave Perry Company and Donald Plank, Atty., Plank and Brahm; 145 East Rich Street; Columbus, Ohio 43215.
PROPOSED USE: Multi-family residential development.
DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval (4-0) on May 13, 2004.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The requested PUD-8, Planned Unit Development District is compatible with multi-family development to the north and provides buffering and screening in consideration of an adjacent single-family subdivision. The proposal would permit a total of 28 units within two-family and four-family dwellings at a density of eight units per acre. The PUD-8 notes also provide a variety of other development standards including building materials, street or ornamental trees along interior drives, lighting and graphics controls, and detailed parking restrictions.
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To rezone 5679 HARLEM ROAD (43054), being 3.53± acres located 330± feet west of Harlem Road and 1178± feet south of S.R. 161, From: R, Rural District, To: PUD-8, Planned Unit Development District and to declare an emergency (Rezoning # Z04-025).
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WHEREAS, application #Z04-025 is on file with the Building Services Division of the Department of Development requesting rezoning of 3.53± acres from R, Rural District to PUD-8, Planned Unit Development District; and
WHEREAS, the Development Commission recommends approval of said zoning change; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation in the City of Columbus in that the closing (purchase) of the property by the applicant is scheduled for June 30, 2004 and is contingent upon the zoning being in effect at the time of the closing thereby making it immediately necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health and safety; and
WHEREAS, the City Departments recommend approval of said zoning change because the requested PUD-8, Planned Unit Development District is compatible with multi-family development to the north and provides buffering and screening in consideration of an adjacent single-family subdivision. The proposal would permit a total of 28 units within two-family and four-family dwellings at a density of eight units per acre. The PUD-8 notes also provide a variety of other development standards including building materials, street or ornamental trees along interior drives, lighting and graphics controls, and detailed parking restrictions; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Official Zoning Map of the City of Columbus, as adopted by Ordinance No. 0179 -03, passed February 24, 2003, and as subsequently amended, is hereby revised by changing the zoning of the property as follows:
5769 HARLEM ROAD (43054), being 3.53± acres located 330± feet west of Harlem Road and 1178± feet south of S.R. 161, and being more particularly described as follows:
ZONING DESCRIPTION: 3.528± ACRES
Situate in the State of Ohio, County of Franklin and City of Columbus and being in the Third Quarter, Township 2, Range 16, United States Military Lands, and bounded and described as follows:
BEGINNING at an iron pin in the northwest corner of the Paul and Alice Schneider 0.568 acre tract as recorded in Deed Book 2401, page 531, Recorder's office, Franklin County, Ohio;
thence along the north line of the Albert and Roma M. Kindler tract, North 88 deg. 48' West, 623.75 feet to an iron pin found at a corner of the Kindler tract;
thence along a west line of said tract, South 8 deg. 35' West, 257.4 feet to an iron pin; thence South 89 deg. 42' East, 592.9 feet to an iron pin in the west line of a five acre tract;
thence along said line, North 7 deg. 29' East, (passing an iron pin at the southwest corner of the Paul and Alice Kindler Schneider tract at 118.7 feet), 249.63 feet to the place of beginning, containing 3.528 acres, more or less.
To Rezone From: R, Rural District,
To: PUD-8, Planned Unit Development District.
SECTION 2. That a Height District of Thirty-five (35) feet is hereby established on the PUD-8, Planned Unit Development District on this property.
SECTION 3. That the Director of the Department of Development be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to make the said changes on the said original zoning map in the office of the Building Services Division and shall register a copy of the approved PUD-8, Planned Unit Development District and Application among the records of the Building Services Division as required by Section 3311.09 of the Columbus City Codes; said plan being titled, "PROPOSED ASHFORD CONDOMINIUMS, 5679 HARLEM ROAD, COLUMBUS, OHIO" dated May 14, 2004, and signed by Donald Plank, attorney for the applicant, and David B. Perry, agent for the applicant, on May 14, 2004.
SECTION 4. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor or 10 days after its passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.