Explanation
Council Variance Application: CV03-035
APPLICANT: Worthington Office Park, LLC; c/o John P. Kennedy, Atty.; 500 South Front Street, Suite 1200; Columbus, Ohio 43215.
PROPOSED USE: Office/warehouse, commercial and storage.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The applicants have received a recommendation of approval for a concurrent rezoning (Z03-013), from R, Rural District to the L-M, Limited Manufacturing District. The applicants are requesting variances to reduce maneuvering, a parking setback and the number of parking spaces required. These variances have been approval by the Transportation Division.
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To grant a Variance from the provisions of Sections 3342.15, Maneuvering; 3342.18, Parking setback line; 3342.28, Minimum number of parking spaces required; for the property located at 211 OAK STREET (43235), to permit a office/warehouse and storage units with reduced development standards in the L-M, Limited Manufacturing District. (Council Variance # CV03-035)
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WHEREAS, by application #CV03-035 the owner of property at 211 OAK STREET (43235), is requesting a Council Variance in conjunction with a rezoning request (Z03-013) to reduce parking and maneuvering standards for an office/commercial/storage development; and
WHEREAS, Section 3342.15, Maneuvering, requires every parking space to have sufficient access and maneuvering area which may include an aisle, circulation area or improved alley, while the applicant proposes to allow maneuvering within the existing setback for seventeen (17) parking spaces; and
WHEREAS, Section 3342.18, Parking setback line, requires that parking be set back ten (10) feet from Oak Street; while the applicant proposes to provide a zero (0) foot setback along Oak Street; and
WHEREAS, Section 3342.28(A) and (B), Minimum number of parking spaces required, requires at total of fifty-four (54) parking spaces, while the applicant proposes to provide a total of forty-six (46) parking spaces; and
WHEREAS, City Departments note a hardship exists and recommend approval because the applicants have received a recommendation of approval for a concurrent rezoning (Z03-013), from R, Rural District to the L-M, Limited Manufacturing Districtand the applicants have received approval from the Transportation Division for the proposed variances; and
WHEREAS, said ordinance requires separate submission for all applicable permits and Certificate of Occupancy for the proposed use; 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 211 OAK STREET (43235), in using said property as desired; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That a variance from the provisions of Sections the provisions of Sections 3342.15, Maneuvering; 3342.18, Parking setback line; 3342.28, Minimum number of parking spaces required; for the property located at 211 OAK STREET (43235), insofar as said sections prohibit maneuvering for parking within the parking setback, with reduced parking setbacks from ten (10) feet to zero (0) feet along Oak Street, with eight (8) fewer parking spaces than the Code required fifty-six (54), said property being more particularly described as follows:
211 OAK STREET(43235), being 2.08± acres located at the northwest corner of Station and Oak Streets, and being more particularly described as follows:
DESCRIPTION OF 2.077 ACRES
LOCATED SOUTH OF OAK STREET,
AND WEST OF STATION STREET
Situate in the State of Ohio, County of Franklin, Township of Sharon, and lying in Township 2, Range 18 of the United States Military Lands, being a 2.07 acre tract conveyed to P2K Builders, Inc. by a deed of record in Instrument Number 200204110092658, all records herein of the Recorder's Office, Franklin County, Ohio, said 2.077 acre tract being more particularly described as follows;
BEGINNING, at a point in the southerly right-of-way of Oak Street, also being the northeasterly corner of Lot 80 of "VILLAGE AT WORTHINGTON", Section 1, a subdivision of record in Plat Book 66, Page 4;
Thence South 86° 46' 45" East, a distance of 254.50 feet, along the southerly right-of-way of said Oak Street, to a point being the common corner of said 2.077 acre tract and a Parcel II conveyed to Craig L. Wathen by a deed of record in Instrument Number 199804130087139;
Thence South 02° 38' 06" East, a distance of 171.93 feet, along the line common to said 2.077 acre tract, said Parcel II tract and a 0.287 (Parcel I) conveyed to Craig L. Wathen by a deed of record in Instrument Number 199804130087139, to a point in a common corner of said 2.077 acre tract and said 0.287 acre tract;
Thence South 86° 43' 06" East, along the line common to said 2.077 acre tract and said 0.287 acre tract, to a point being a common corner of said 2.077 acre tract and said 0.287 acre tract, and in the westerly property line of New York Central Lines, LLC, by a deed of record in Instrument Number 200212180325201;
Thence South 02° 51' 06" East, a distance of 108.60 feet, along the line common to said 2.077 acre tract and said New York Central Lines, LLC, to a point in the common corner of said 2.077 acre tract and a 1.58 acre tract conveyed to Robert G. Humeny and Sonja a. Humeny by a deed of record in Official Record 32353, Page B-19;
Thence North 86° 36' 06" West, along the line common to said 2.077 acre tract and said 1.58 acre tract, to a point being in the westerly line of Lot 82 of said "VILLAGE AT WORTHINGTON", and being a common corner of said 2.077 acre tract and said 1.58 acre tract;
Thence North 01° 51' 06" West, a distance of 57.70 feet, along the line common to said 2.077 acre tract and said Lot 82, to a point being the common corner of said 2.077 acre tract, said Lot 82, and Lot 81 of said "VILLAGE AT WORTHINGTON";
Thence South 88° 18' 06" East, a distance of 99.70 feet, along the line common to said 2.077 acre tract and said Lot 81, to a point;
Thence North 02° 19' 06" West, a distance of 218.56 feet, along the line common to said 2.077 acre tract, said Lot 81 and said Lot 80, to the POINT OF BEGINNING. Containing 2.077 acres more or less.
The bearings shown hereon are based on the bearing of North 86° 46' 45" West, for the centerline of Oak Street, as determined by a GPS network of field observations performed in August, 2001.
SECTION 2. That this ordinance is further conditioned on the Subject Site being developed in general conformance with the site and elevation plans titled "Exhibit A", dated November 24, 2003, and signed by Laura Macgregor Comek, attorney for the applicant.
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.