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APPLICANT: John H. Bell Jr.; 2600 Saugus Circle; Columbus, Ohio 43224.
PROPOSED USE: Fraternal organization and social club.
NEAR EAST AREA COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The applicants seek a Council variance to continue operation a social club at the site. The applicants have operated at this location since 1982. Fraternal organizations are permitted only in the AR-3, Apartment Residential District, C-4, Commercial and M, Manufacturing Districts.
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To grant a Variance from the provisions of Sections 3332.037, R-2F, Residential District use; 3332.21, Building lines, Section 3332.26, Minimum side yard permitted, 3342.28, Minimum number of parking spaces required for property located at 774 MT. VERNON AVENUE (43203), to permit the continued operation of a Fraternal organization.
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WHEREAS, by application No. CV02-061, the owner of property at 774 MT. VERNON AVENUE (43203), is requesting a Council variance to permit an existing social club in the R-2F, Residential District; and
WHEREAS, a Council variance is necessary to permit a fraternal organization or social club in the R-2F, Residential District; and
WHEREAS, Section 3332.037, R-2F Residential District, prohibits fraternal organizations and social clubs, while the applicant proposes to continue operation a fraternal organization that was established in 1982; and
WHEREAS, Section 3332.21, Building lines, requires a minimum building setback of twenty-five (25) feet from East Long Street, while the applicant proposes to maintain the building setback of zero (0) feet for the existing building; and
WHEREAS, Section 3332.26, Minimum side yard permitted, requires a side yard of no less than five feet, while the applicant proposes to maintain the location of the existing buildings within the required side yard; and
WHEREAS, Section 3342.28, Parking spaces required, requires a total of forty-three (43) parking spaces for the fraternal organization, while the applicant proposes no parking spaces; and
WHEREAS, the applicant has an agreement to share parking with the Shiloh Baptist Church which is located approximately sixty (60) feet north of the site; and
WHEREAS, the Near East Area Commission recommends approval; and
WHEREAS, City Departments recommend approval and note a hardship exists because the R-2F, Residential District does not permit a fraternal organization or social club, which is the way this property has been used since the applicant purchased it; and
WHEREAS, said ordinance requires separate submission for all applicable permits and Certificate of Occupancy for the proposed use; 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 774 MT. VERNON AVENUE (43203), in using said property as desired; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. To grant a Variance from the provisions of Sections 3332.037, R-2F Residential District use; 3332.21, Building lines; 3332.26, Minimum side yard permitted; 3342.28, for property located at 774 MOUNT VERNON AVENUE (43203), being 0.08± acres located at the northeast corner of East Long Street and Garfield Avenue insofar as said sections prohibit a fraternal organizations or social club in the R-2F Residential District with reduced building lines, reduced side yard setbacks and reduced parking, being more particularly described as follows:
Situated in the County of Franklin in the State of Ohio and in the County of Franklin and being further described and located as
follows:
Being the southerly part of Lot Number (2) of John Short's Subdivision of Outlot 9 of Robert Neil's Addition of Inlots and Outlots to the City of Columbus as the same is numbered and delineated upon the recorded plat thereof of record in Plat Book 1, page 246, Recorder's Office, Franklin County, Ohio., and more particularly described as follows: Beginning at an iron pipe in the southwest corner of said Lot Number Two (2); thence northerly on the west line of Lot Number Two (2) a distance of eighty-four (84) feet to an iron pipe; thence easterly on a line of said Lot Number Two (2); thence southerly on the east line of said lot Lot Number (2) a distance of seventy-two (72) feet to an iron pipe in the south line of said Lot Number Two (2) said point being also the southeast corner of Lot Number Two (2); thence westerly along the south line of said Lot Number Two (2) to the place of beginning.
Commonly known as 772-774 Mt. Vernon Avenue Columbus, OH PARCEL #10-380004 Prior Instrument Reference: Vol. 047854 Page 09413D10-1 of the Deed Records of Franklin County, Ohio.
Section 2. That this ordinance is conditioned on and shall remain in effect only for so long as said property is used for operation of a fraternal organization or social club or those uses permitted in the R-2F, Residential District.
Section 3. That this ordinance is further conditioned on the applicant obtaining all applicable permits and a Certificate of Occupancy for the proposed use.
Section 4. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.