Explanation
Rezoning Application: Z25-049
APPLICANT: Lowe’s Home Centers, LLC; c/o Todd Simmons, PE.; 209 West Stone Avenue; Greenville, SC 29609.
PROPOSED USE: Commercial development.
DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval (4-0) on March 16, 2026.
WEST SCIOTO AREA COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The site consists of one parcel developed with a big-box home improvement retailer in the CPD, Commercial Planned Development District. The requested CPD, Commercial Planned Development District will incorporate an updated development text and site plan demonstrating accessory outdoor storage, as allowed by concurrent Council variance CV26-014 (Ordinance #1295-2026). The site is within the boundaries of the Columbus Growth Strategy (2026), which recommends “Mixed Use 3”at this location. The CPD text commits to a site plan and includes supplemental development standards addressing building setbacks, height, parking, landscaping and screening, building design, and outdoor display areas. A code modification to reduce required parking from 442 to 393 spaces is included in the text. The requested CPD district includes uses and development standards that are consistent with adjacent commercial uses, the development pattern of the surrounding area, and the Columbus Growth Strategy’s land use recommendation.
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To rezone 3600 PARK MILL RUN DR. (43026), being 12.56± acres located at the northwest corner of Spring Mill Drive and Fishinger Boulevard, From: CPD, Commercial Planned Development District, To: CPD, Commercial Planned Development District (Rezoning #Z25-049).
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WHEREAS, application #Z25-049 is on file with the Department of Building and Zoning Services requesting rezoning of 12.56± acres from CPD, Commercial Planned Development District, to CPD, Commercial Planned Development District; and
WHEREAS, the Development Commission recommends approval of said zoning change; and
WHEREAS, the West Scioto Area Commission recommends approval of said zoning change; and
WHEREAS, the City Departments recommend approval of said zoning change as the proposed CPD district is consistent with adjacent commercial uses, the development pattern of the surrounding area, and the Columbus Growth Strategy’s land use recommendation, 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 #0179 -03, passed February 24, 2003, and as subsequently amended, is hereby revised by changing the zoning of the property as follows:
3600 PARK MILL RUN DR. (43026), being 1.17± acres located at the northeast corner of Georgesville Road and Parkwick Drive, and being more particularly described as follows:
Real property in the City of Columbus, County of Franklin, State of Ohio, described as follows:
Tract 1:
Description of 12.496 acres of land located between Interstate Route 1-270 and Fishinger Boulevard and North of Spring Mill Drive, in the City of Columbus, County of Franklin, State of Ohio.
Situated in the State of Ohio, County of Franklin, City of Columbus, being in Virginia Military Survey No. 547 and containing 12.496 acres of land, more or less 3.187 acres of said 12.496 acres being in Parcel I as the same is designated and delineated upon the recorded plat of Mill Run Subdivision and Street & Easement Dedication Plat, of record in Plat Book 64, Pages 17 and 18 and 8.303 acres of said 12.496 acres being in Parcel D as the same is designated and delineated upon the recorded plat of Mill Run Subdivision and Street & Easement Dedication Plat Section 2, of record in Plat Book 64, Pages 38 and 39, 3.690 acres of said 12.496 acres being part of that 54.026 acre tract of land described in Exhibit A in the deed to Park Mill Run Limited Partnership, of record in Official Record 21461G11, all being of record in the Recorder's Office, Franklin County, Ohio, and 8.806 acres of said 12.496 acres being a part of that
30.676 acre tract of land described in Exhibit A in said deed to Park Mill Run Limited Partnership, said
12.496 acres of land being more particularly described as follows:
Beginning, for reference, at the centerline intersection of Fishinger Road and Spring Mill Road, sixty feet in width, as said intersection is designated and delineated upon the plat of said Mill Run Subdivision Street & Easement Dedication Plat Section 2;
Thence S-55° 26' 55" W, with the centerline of said Spring Mill Run Drive, a distance of 199.77 feet to a point of curvature;
Thence N-34° 33' 05" W, a distance of 30.00 feet to a point of curvature in the Southerly boundary of said Parcel D, the same being a point of curvature in the Northerly right-of-way boundary of said Spring Mill Drive, said point also being a point of curvature in the Southerly boundary of said 30.676 acre tract;
Thence Southwestwardly, with a Northwesterly right-of-way line of said Spring Mill Drive, with a
Southeasterly line of said Parcel D and with a Southeasterly line of said 30.676 acre tract, the same being the arc of a curve to the right having a radius of 970.00 feet, a central angle of 5° 26' 10" and a chord that bears S-58° 10' 00" W, a chord distance of 92.00 feet to a 3/4-inch (I.D.) iron pipe at the true point of beginning;
Thence, from said true point of beginning, westwardly, with a Northerly right-of-way line of said Spring Mill Drive, with a Southerly line of said Parcel D and with a Southerly line of said 30.676 acre tract, the same being the arc of a curve to the right having a radius of 970.00 feet, a central angle of 21° 23' 46" and a chord that bears S-71° 34' 58" W, a chord distance of 360.13 feet to a 3/4-inch (I.D.) iron pipe at a point of tangency.
Thence S-82° 16' 51" W, with a Northerly right-of-way line of said Spring Mill Drive, with the Southerly line of said Parcel D, and with the Southerly line of said 30.676 acre tract, a distance of 100.77 feet to a 3/4 inch (I.D.) iron pipe at a point of curvature;
Thence Northwestwardly with the Northeasterly right-of-way line of said Spring Mill Drive, with a Southwesterly line of said Parcel D and with a Southwesterly line of said 30.676 acre tract, the same being the arc of a curve to the right having a radius of 40.00 feet, a central angle of 90° 00' 00" and a chord that bears N-52° 43' 09" W, a chord distance of 56.57 feet to a 3/4-inch (I.D.) iron pipe at a point of tangency, the same being a corner of said 30.676 acre tract, said iron pipe also being an angle point (Northeasterly corner) in the right-of-way boundary' of Mill Run Drive as the same is designated and delineated upon the recorded plat of the Vacation of Mill Run Drive and Dedication of Mill Run Drive and Easements, of record in Plat Book 77, Page 18, Recorder's Office, Franklin County, Ohio;
Thence S-82° 16' 51" W, with the Northerly right-of-way line of said Mill Run Drive, with a Southerly line of said 30.676 acre tract and with a Southerly line of said 54.026 acre tract, a distance of 60.00 feet to a 3/4-inch (I.D.) iron pipe at an angle point (Northwesterly corner) in the right-of-way boundary of said Mill
Run Drive, the same being in an easterly line of said Parcel I, said iron pipe also being a corner of said
54.026 acre tract;
Thence S-7° 43' 09" E, with a westerly right-of-way line of said Mill Run Drive, with an Easterly line of said Parcel I and with an Easterly line of said 54.026 acre tract, a distance of 40.00 feet to a 3/4-inch (I.D.) iron pipe at an angle point (Northeasterly corner) in the right-of-way boundary of Park Mill Run
Drive, sixty feet in width, as the same is designated and delineated upon the recorded plat of the
Dedication of Park Mill Run Drive and Easements, of record in Plat Book 78, Pages 87 and 88, Recorder's Office, Franklin County, Ohio;
Thence S-82° 16' 51" W, with a Northerly right-of-way line of said Park Mill Run Drive, a distance of
18.75 feet to a 3/4-inch (I.D.) pipe at a point of curvature;
Thence Northwestwardly, with the Northeasterly right-of-way line of said Park Mill Run Drive, the same being the arc of a curve to the right having a radius of 170.00 feet, a central angle of 90° 08' 51" and a chord that bears N-52° 38' 44" W, a chord distance of 240.73 feet to a 3/4-inch (I.D.) iron pipe at a point of tangency;
Thence N-7° 34' 18" W, with an Easterly right-of-way line of said Park Mill Run Drive, a distance of
600.61 feet to a 3/4-inch (I.D.) iron pipe at an angle point in the existing City of Columbus and City of Hilliard corporation line;
Thence N-82° 25' 42" E, with said existing City of Columbus and City of Hilliard corporation line and the same extended Eastwardly, a distance of 730.00 feet to a 3/4-inch (I.D.) iron pipe;
Thence S-7° 34' 18" E, a distance of 556.16 feet to a 3/4-inch (I.D.) iron pipe at a point of curvature;
Thence Southwardly, with the arc of a curve to the right having a radius of 90.00 feet, a central angle of 20 ° 34' 04" and a chord that bears S-2° 42' 44" W, a chord distance of 32.13 feet to a 3/4-inch (I.D.) iron pipe at a point of tangency;
Thence S-12° 59' 46" W, a distance of 41.24 feet to a 3/4-inch (I.D.) iron pipe at a point of curvature;
Thence Southwardly, with the arc of a curve to the left having a radius of 60.00 feet, a central angle of 40 0 00' and a chord that bears S-7° 00' 14" E, a chord distance of 41.04 feet to a 3/4- inch (I.D.) iron pipe at a point of tangency;
Thence S-27° 00' 14" W, a distance of 24.28 feet to a 3/4-inch (I.D.) iron pipe at a point of curvature;
Thence Eastwardly, with the arc of a curve to the left having a radius of 20.00 feet, a central angle of 92° 06' 41" and a chord that bears S-73° 03' 36" E, a chord distance of 28.80 feet to the true point of beginning and containing 12.496 acres of land, more or less.
We hereby state that the foregoing description was prepared from information obtained from actual field surveys conducted by Bauer, Davidson & Merchant, Inc. in May of 1993 and in January of 1994.
All of the iron pipe survey markers noted in the foregoing description were in place in January of 1994.
The bearings given in the foregoing description correspond to the bearings shown on the recorded plat of said Mill Run Subdivision Street & Easement Dedication Plat Section 2.
Tract 2:
Description of a 0.063 acre area of land located on the Northerly side of the intersection of Mill Run Drive and Spring Mill Drive, in the City of Columbus, County of Franklin, State of Ohio (part of Spring Mill Drive and Mill Run Drive dedicated right-of-way which has been released/vacated)
Situated in the State of Ohio, County of Franklin, City of Columbus, being in Virginia Military Survey No. 547 and being a 0.063 acre area of land, more or less, 0.055 acre of said 0.063 acre being a part of the dedicated right-of-way of Mill Run Drive, as said Mill Run Drive is designated and delineated upon the recorded plat of the Vacation of Mill Run Drive and Rededication of Mill Run Drive and Easements of record in Plat Book 77, Page 18 and 0.008 acre of said 0.063 acre area being a part of Spring Mill Drive, as said Spring Mill Drive is designated and delineated upon the recorded plat of the Vacation of Spring Mill Drive and Rededication of Spring Mill Drive and Easements, of record in Plat Book 76, Page 92, both being of record in the Recorder's Office, Franklin County, Ohio, said 0.063 acre area of land being more particularly described as follows:
Beginning, for reference, at a P.K. nail at the centerline intersection of Spring Mill Drive, sixty-feet in width, and Mill Run Drive, sixty feet in width, as said intersection is designated and delineated upon the recorded plats of said Vacation of Mill Run Drive and Rededication of Mill Run Drive and Easements and Vacation of Spring Mill Drive and Rededication of Spring Mill Drive and Easements, said intersection also being shown on the recorded plat of the Dedication of Park Mill Run Drive and Easements, of record in Plat Book 78, Pages 87 and 88, Recorder's Office, Franklin County, Ohio;
Thence N-82° 16' 51" E, with the centerline of said Spring Mill Drive, a distance of 70.00 feet to a point;
Thence N-7° 43 09" W, a distance of 30.00 feet to a 3/4-inch (I.D.) iron pipe at the true point of beginning, the same being a point of curvature in the Northerly right-of-way boundary of said Spring Mill Drive;
Thence, from said true point of beginning, S-82° 16' 51" W, with the Westerly extension of the Northerly right-of-way line of said Spring Mill Drive a distance of 100.00 feet to a 3/4-inch (I.D.) iron pipe in the Westerly right-of-way line of said Mill Run Drive at a Northeasterly corner of the right-of-way boundary of said Park Mill Run Drive;
Thence N-7° 43' 09" W, with the Westerly right-of-way line of said Mill Run Drive, a distance of 40.00 feet to a 3/4-inch (I.D.) iron pipe at the Northwesterly right-of-way corner of said Mill Run Drive;
Thence N-82° 16' 51" E, with the Northerly right-of-way line of said Mill Run Drive, a distance of 60.00 feet to a 3/4-inch (I.D.) iron pipe at the Northeasterly right-of-way corner of said Mill Run Drive, the same being a point of curvature at a Northerly right-of-way corner of Spring Mill Drive;
Thence Southeastwardly, with the Northeasterly right-of-way line of said Spring Mill Drive and with the arc of a curve to the left having a radius of 40.00 feet, a central angle of 90 0 00" and a chord that bears S-52 ° 43' 09" E, a chord distance of 56.57 feet to the true point of beginning and being a 0.063 acre area of land, more or less.
We hereby state that the foregoing description was prepared from information obtained from actual field surveys conducted by Bauer, Davidson & Merchant, Inc. in May and November of 1993.
All of the iron pipe survey markers noted in the foregoing description were in place in November of 1993.
The bearings given in the foregoing description correspond to the bearings shown on the recorded plat of the Vacation of Spring Mill Drive and Easements, of record in Plat Book 76, Page 92, Recorder's Office Franklin County, Ohio.
Parcel No. 560-227589
Address: 3600 Park Mill Run Drive, Columbus, OH 43206.
To Rezone From: CPD, Commercial Planned Development District,
To: CPD, Commercial Planned Development District.
SECTION 2. That a Height District of one-hundred ten (110) feet is hereby established on the CPD, Commercial Planned Development District on this property.
SECTION 3. That the Director of the Department of Building and Zoning Services be, and is hereby authorized and directed to make the said change on the said official zoning map and shall register a copy of the approved CPD, Commercial Planned Development District and Application among the records of the Department of Building and Zoning Services as required by Section 3311.12 of the Columbus City Codes; said plan being titled, “CPD SITE PLAN,” dated January 15, 2026, signed by Todd Burnett, Engineer for the Applicant, and text titled, “CPD TEXT,” dated February 17, 2026, and signed by Todd Bartok, Agent for the Applicant, and the text reading as follows:
CPD TEXT
EXISTING ZONING: CPD, Commercial Planned Development District (Z03-059)
PROPOSED ZONING: CPD, Commercial Planned Development District
PROPERTY ADDRESS: 3600 Park Mill Run Dr., Columbus, OH 43026.
PARCEL ID: 560-227589
APPLICANT: Lows Home Centers, LLC
OWNER: MDC Coast 19 LLC
DATE OF TEXT: 02/17/2026
APPLICATION NUMBER: Z25-049
1. INTRODUCTION:
THE MILL RUN PROJECT: The Mill Run project consists of approximately 342.7 acres located in northwest Franklin County and is bounded by Smiley Road on the east, Hilliard-Cemetery Road on the north, I-270 on the west and The Glen Subdivision to the south. Approximately 205 acres of the Mill Run project lies within the City of Columbus, Ohio and the balance lies within the City of Hilliard.
ZONING HISTORY:
Originally approved as part of the rezoning of the 212.3 acres of Mill Run located in the City of Columbus from R, Rural, to CPD, Commercial Planned Development and L-AR-12, Limited-Apartment Residential, as recommended by the Development Commission in Case Nos. Z85-045A and Z85-045B. Over the years, the site has been amended, rezoned, and divided five times prior to the creation of Subarea 7 as part of Ordinance No. 944-91 Subarea 7 was later divided and amended on several occasions. Most recently approved on January 13, 2004, that represented the addition of Lowe’s Home Centers to this development.
This CPD text supersedes and replaces the CPD text (Z03-059) for the 12.559± acre site, now occupied by Lowe's Home Centers LLC., located within Subarea 7 and contained in Z92-078, for the purpose of expanding the garden center, expanding approved locations of outdoor retail displays and sales per CV26-014, specifying approved locations of on site permanent storage, and granting a parking variance to address zoning code violation 24470-02121.
2. PERMITTED USES: Permitted uses shall all uses permitted under C-1, C-2, C-3, C-4 and C-5, except game rooms and used car lots, except that used car sales in connection with a full service automobile dealership for new vehicles shall be permitted. It is requested to allow for the use of outdoor permanent storage areas within parcel no: 560-227589 per CV26-014.
3. DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS: Unless otherwise indicated on the Site Plan or in this written text, the applicable development standards shall be those standards contained in Chapter 3356, C-4, Commercial District, of the Columbus City Code.
A. Density, Height, Lot and/or Setback Commitments.
1. Setbacks: All buildings shall be setback 30'-0" from the street right-of-way. All parking areas shall be setback 20'-0" from the street right-of-way. There are no setback requirements applicable to the common boundary between the cities of Columbus and Hilliard other than as specifically set forth in the Restated and Amended Conferring Text and applicable CPD and limitation texts. To the extent the common boundary between the cities bisects any building, the respective cities shall agree upon the handling of fire and police protection and allocation of tax revenues.
2. Maximum building height shall be 90'-0".
B. Access, Loading, Parking and/or Traffic Related Commitments.
There will be no on-street parking on any arterial or collector street.
C. Buffering, Landscaping, Open Space, and/or Screening Commitments.
1. Street trees shall be maintained adjacent to public right-of-way as shown on the CPD site plan. If replacement is needed, said trees shall be placed forty-five feet (45') on center and have a minimum caliper of 3" at time of installation. Caliper shall be measured 6" from the ground surface.
2. Interior landscaping shall consist of sixty-five (65) trees as shown on the CPD site plan
3. The permanent storage area J on the CPD site plan shall be screened by landscaping to a minimum height of six feet (6’) per CV26-014.
4. The Loading and Waste Handling Area shall have a screening opacity of 100% to a minimum height of six feet (6') via earth mounding and landscaping located adjacent to the public right-of-way, as shown on the CPD site plan.
D. Building design and/or Interior-Exterior treatment commitments.
All exterior building materials will be of brick, stucco, concrete, glass, wood or stone.
All loading and storage areas will be screened from the street or public view per CV26-014.
E. Dumpsters, Lighting, Outdoor Display Areas and/or Environmental Commitments.
1. All site electrical lines and telephone lines shall be placed underground. Transformer or terminal equipment shall be visually screened from view from streets and adjacent property.
2. All street lighting shall be a rectangular architectural luminaire on a 29'-0" dark brown baked enamel pole per the City of Columbus' standard.
3. New accent lighting shall be permitted provided such light source is concealed from the adjacent right-of-way.
4. Outside retail display areas shall be limited to the following locations:
a. Along the front of the building, three (3) feet in depth and seventy-three (73) feet in width. See notation A on the attached CPD site plan.
b. Along the front of the building, twenty-one (16) feet in depth and one hundred thirty (130) feet in width. See notation B on the attached CPD site plan.
c. Along the front of the building, three (3) feet in depth and one hundred eighty-three (183) feet in width. See notation C on the attached CPD site plan.
d. Along the front of the building, twenty-one (16) feet in depth and fifty (50) feet in width. See notation D on the attached CPD site plan.
e. Along the front of the garden center, twenty-one (16) feet in depth and one hundred twenty-three (123) feet in width. A maximum height of eight (8) feet. See notation E on the attached CPD site plan.
f. In the one hundred thirty-five (135) parking spaces to the south and west of the garden center. Storage area to be seasonal (March - July) bagged good storage per CV26-014. See notation F on the attached CPD site plan.
g. In eighteen (18) parking spaces east of the garden center. Outdoor sales display to be seasonal (March - July) live good sales. See notation G on the attached CPD site plan.
6. The outdoor display areas shall contain only those items normally and customarily sold by a home improvement store and other seasonal items and products, including but not limited to, mulch, flowers, trees, retaining wall blocks, fence panels, storage sheds, and propane tank cages per CV26-014.
7. There shall be a 48,563 sf expanded garden center measuring one hundred eighty-three (183) feet in depth and two hundred sixty-five (265) feet in width. A maximum fence height shall be twenty (20) feet with a screened interior. See notation K on the attached CPD site plan.
8. Permanent on site storage shall be limited to per CV26-014:
a. In the fenced area along the building, forty-three (43) feet in depth and three hundred thirty-eight (338) feet in width. See notation H on the attached CPD site plan.
b. Along the fenced permanent storage twelve (12) feet in width and three hundred thirty-eight
(338) feet in width. See notation I on the attached CPD site plan
c. In twenty-two (22) parking spaces. See notation J on the attached CPD site plan.
F. Graphics and Signage Commitments.
Graphics on the Site will comply with the Graphics Code, Chapters 3375 to 3383 of the Columbus City Code as it applies to the C-4, Commercial District. Variances to sign requirements shall be submitted to the Columbus Graphics Commission or master graphic plan for the Site may be submitted to the Columbus Graphics Commission for consideration.
G. Miscellaneous Commitments.
The subject site shall be in accordance with the attached Site Plan titled “CPD Site Plan for Lowe’s of Columbus Ohio”. The Site Plan may be slightly adjusted to reflect engineering, topographical or other site data developed at the time that development and engineering plans are completed. Any slight adjustment to the Site Plan shall be reviewed and may be approved by the Director of the Department of Building and Zoning Services, or a designee, upon submission of the appropriate data regarding the proposed adjustment.
H. Modification to Code Standards
Chapter 3312.49, Minimum number of parking spaces required. Based on Gross Floor Area, 442 spaces are required. Given the site layout and not including spaces used for permanent storage or seasonal outdoor sales display per CV26-014, 393 permanent spaces are provided. See Revised Parking Count calculations on the CPD site plan.
I. Other CPD Requirements.
1. Natural Environment: This site is developed with an existing building.
2. Existing Land Use: The site is currently zoned in the CPD district.
3. Circulation: Access to the site shall be from Fishinger Road, Spring Mill Drive, Park Mill Drive, and Park Mill Run Drive.
4. Visual Form of the Environment: See the development standards in the text and CPD site plan.
5. Visibility: In the development of the subject property and in the location of buildings and access points, consideration was given to the visibility and safety of the motorists and pedestrians.
6. Proposed Development: The site is developed for commercial use.
7. Behavior Patterns: The development serves the residential population adjacent to the Fishinger Road corridor.
8. Emissions: No adverse emissions should occur from the proposed development.
SECTION 4. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.