Explanation
Rezoning Application Z07-025
APPLICANT: Evans Scholars Foundation; c/o Jill S. Tangeman, Atty.; 52 East Gay Street, P.O. Box 1008; Columbus, Ohio 43216.
PROPOSED USE: Single-family residential development.
DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval (4-0) on August 9, 2007.
UNIVERSITY AREA COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. Council variance application #CV05-066 was approved in June, 2006, to allow scholarship student housing on the subject site and the parcel to the immediate west which is zoned AR-4, Apartment Residential District. The requested AR-4, Apartment Residential District was submitted to fulfill a condition of the Council variance that a rezoning application for the I district be filed to request an appropriate zoning district after passage at City Council. The proposed student housing use is prevalent in the neighborhood, and the requested AR-4, Apartment Residential District is consistent with the zoning and development patterns of the area.
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To rezone 127 EAST SIXTEENTH AVENUE (43201), being 0.41± acres located on the south side of East Sixteenth Avenue, 126± feet west of Indianola Avenue, From: I, Institutional District, To: AR-4, Apartment Residential District (Rezoning # Z07-025).
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WHEREAS, application #Z07-025 is on file with the Building Services Division of the Department of Development requesting rezoning of 0.41± acres from I, Institutional District, to AR-4, Apartment Residential District; and
WHEREAS, the Development Commission recommends approval of said zoning change; and
WHEREAS, the University Area Commission recommends approval of said zoning change; and
WHEREAS, the City Departments recommend approval of said zoning change because Council variance application CV05-066 was approved in June, 2006, to allow scholarship student housing on the subject site, and the requested AR-4, Apartment Residential District was submitted to fulfill a condition of the Council variance application. The proposed student housing use is prevalent in the neighborhood, and the requested AR-4, Apartment Residential District is consistent with the zoning and development patterns of the area 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:
127 EAST SIXTEENTH AVENUE (43201), being 0.41± acres located on the south side of East Sixteenth Avenue, 126± feet west of Indianola Avenue, and being more particularly described as follows:
Situated in the State of Ohio, County of Franklin, City of Columbus and in Section 3, Township 1, Range 18, United States Military Lands and being all of a 0.405 acre tract of land (by recent survey) conveyed to Robert N. Shamansky by deed of record in Instrument 200202010030724, all references being to Recorder's Office, Franklin County, Ohio and bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a ½" Solid I.P. found at the northeast corner of said 0.405 acre tract, at the northwest corner of a tract of land conveyed to The Alpha Gamma Chapter House Company of the Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity by deed of record in Deed Book 1061, Page 475 and in the curved south right of way line of Sixteenth Avenue (Sixty (60) feet in width);
thence S 13° 46' 18" E along the east line of said 0.405 acre tract, along the west line of said Alpha Gamma Chapter House Company tract and radial to the curved south right of way line of Sixteenth Avenue a distance of 146.15 feet to a ½" I.D. iron pipe found at the southeast corner of said 0.405 acre tract, at the southwest corner of said Alpha Gamma Chapter House Company tract, at the northwest corner of a tract of land conveyed to I.C. Inc. by deed of record in Deed Book 1059, Page 432 and at the northeast corner of a tract of land conveyed to H. Queck as Trustee of the Campus Partners Properties Trust by deed of record in Instrument 200106130133203;
thence S 81° 31' 47" W along the south line of said 0.405 acre tract, along the north line of said H. Queck tract and along a portion of the north line of a tract of land conveyed to Sigma Kappa Chapter of Kappa Delta Sorority by deed of record in Deed Book 1894, Page 50 a distance of 141.93 feet to a ¾" I.D. iron pipe found at the southwest corner of said 0.405 acre tract and at the southeast corner of a tract of land conveyed to Shamansky Real Estate Holdings, LLC by deed of record in Instrument 200202010030142;
thence N 1° 28' 25" E along the west line of said 0.405 acre tract and along the east line of said Shamansky Real Estate Holdings, LLC tract a distance of 147.14 feet to a ¾" I.D. iron pipe found at the northwest corner of said 0.405 acre tract and at the northeast corner of said Shamansky Real Estate Holdings, LLC tract;
thence easterly, along the curved north line of said 0.405 acre tract, along the curved southerly right of way line of Sixteenth Avenue and with a curve to the left, data of which is: radius = 594.30 feet, length = 103.15 feet and delta = 9° 56' 40", a chord distance of 103.02 feet bearing N 81° 12' 02" E to the true place of beginning; containing 0.405 acre of land more or less and being subject to all easements and restrictions of record.
The above description was prepared by Jay R. Miller, Ohio Surveyor No. 8061, of C.F. Bird & R.J. Bull, Inc., Consulting Engineers and Surveyors, Columbus, Ohio, from an actual field survey perform under his supervision in May, 2005. Basis of bearings is an assumed meridian along the east line of said 0.405 acre tract, being S 13° 46' 15" E.
To Rezone From: I, Institutional District,
To: AR-4, Apartment Residential District
SECTION 2. That a Height District of thirty-five (35) feet is hereby established on the AR-4, Apartment Residential District on this property.
SECTION 3. That the Director of the Department of Development be, and is hereby authorized and directed to make the said changes on the said original zoning map in the office of the Building Services Division.
SECTION 4. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.