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COUNCIL VARIANCE: CV02-052
APPLICANT: Fred Stewart-Magee; 101 Beechwood Drive S.W.; Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068.
PROPOSED USE: Seven-unit apartment house.
UNIVERSITY AREA COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The site is developed with a closed 54-occupant sorority/fraternity house. The applicant wishes to redevelop the existing building with reduced development standards as a seven-unit apartment house. The applicant is requesting variances to reduce aisle width for parallel parking, allow a dumpster forward of the building line, reduce the parking setback line on Seventeenth Avenue, allow parking and maneuvering in required side yard between a building and public street, reduce the number of required off-street parking spaces for residential uses, and increase the maximum total calculated floor area permitted on a lot. The variances requested to reduce development standards reflect existing site conditions. A hardship exists in that the applicant's proposal to convert a 54-occupant sorority/fraternity house to a seven-unit apartment house in the AR-4, Apartment Residential District requires variances to reduce development standards.
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To grant a Variance from the provisions of Sections 3342.06 Aisle; 3342.09, Dumpster area; 3342.18, Parking Setback Line; 3372.521, Supplemental parking requirements; 3372.564 Parking; and 3372.567 Maximum floor area, for the property located at 1892 INDIANOLA AVENUE (43201), to permit a seven-unit apartment house with reduced development standards in the AR-4, Apartment Residential District (Council Variance CV02-052), and to declare an emergency.
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WHEREAS, by application #CV02-052, the owner of property at 1892 INDIANOLA AVENUE (43201) is requesting a Variance to permit a seven-unit apartment house with reduced development standards in the AR-4, Apartment Residential District; and
WHEREAS, Section 3342.06, Aisle, requires a minimum aisle width of thirteen (13) feet for parallel parking, while the applicant intends to provide an aisle eleven (11) feet wide for an eighteen foot segment of aisle; and
WHEREAS, Section 3342.09, Dumpster area, prohibits the location of a dumpster in any required yard or setback, while the applicant intends to place a dumpster in required front yard forward of the Seventeenth Avenue building setback line as shown on the site plan; and
WHEREAS, Section 3342.18, Parking setback line, requires a 25-foot parking setback in the AR-4, Apartment Residential District, while the applicant requests that the Seventeenth Avenue parking setback line be reduced from 25-feet to zero feet; and
WHEREAS, Section 3372.521, Supplemental parking requirements, prohibits parking in a required side yard and between a building and public street, while the applicant proposes to retain parking spaces in the required side yard located between the existing building and Seventeenth Avenue; and
WHEREAS, Section 3372.564 Parking, requires a maximum of twenty-eight (28) parking spaces for seven apartment units, while the applicant proposes to provide eleven (11) parking spaces; and
WHEREAS, Section 3372.567 Maximum floor area, requires a maximum total calculated floor area ratio of 0.6 on a lot, while the applicant proposes a maximum total calculated floor area ratio 0.91 (13,633 sq ft Floor Area/ 14,856 Total Area = 0.91); and
WHEREAS, the University Area Commission recommends approval; and
WHEREAS, the City Departments recommend approval and note a hardship exists because the site is developed with a closed 54-occupant sorority/fraternity house and the applicant wishes to redevelop the existing building with reduced development standards as a seven-unit apartment house. The applicant is requesting variances to reduce aisle width for parallel parking, allow a dumpster forward of the building line, reduce the parking setback line on Seventeenth Avenue, allow parking and maneuvering in required side yard between a building and public street, reduce the number of required off-street parking spaces for residential uses, and increase the maximum total calculated floor area permitted on a lot. The variances requested to reduce development standards reflect existing site conditions. A hardship exists in that the applicant's proposal to convert a 54-occupant sorority/fraternity house to a seven-unit apartment house in the AR-4, Apartment Residential District requires variances to reduce development standards.
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 1892 INDIANOLA AVENUE (43201), in using said property as desired; now, therefore:
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City of Columbus, in that heating and electrical contractors are ready to begin work for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health and safety; now, therefore;
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That a Variance from the provisions of Sections 3342.06, Aisle; 3342.09, Dumpster area; 3342.18, Parking Setback Line; 3372.521, Supplemental parking requirements, 3372.564, Parking, and 3372.567 Maximum floor area, is hereby granted for the property located at 1892 INDIANOLA AVENUE (43201), in that said sections prohibit conversion of a former fraternity/sority house to a seven-unit apartment house with an aisle eleven feet wide for a distance of eighteen feet, a dumpster in required front yard forward of the building setback line as shown on the site plan, a parking setback line reduced from twenty-five to zero feet on Seventeenth Avenue, parking and maneuvering between the existing building and Seventeenth Avenue in required side yard, a reduction of required parking spaces from 28 to 11 spaces for apartment house use, and a maximum calculated floor area ratio of 0.91; said property being more particularly described as follows:
Situated in the County of Franklin, State of Ohio and in the City of Columbus:
Being Lots Numbered Forty-Eight (48) and Forty-Nine (49) of INDIANOLA FOREST ADDITION to said City, as the same are numbered and delineated upon the recorded plat thereof, of record in Plat
Book No. 8, page 4-A, Recorder's Office, Franklin County, Ohio, and part of alley vacated by Ordinance No. 22417, passed September 11, 1905.
Known as 1892 Indianola Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43201.
Parcel #010-024392.
Section 2. That this ordinance is conditioned on and shall remain in effect only for so long as said property is used for a lot developed with a seven-unit apartment house, or those uses permitted in the AR-4, Apartment Residential District.
Section 3. That this ordinance is further conditioned on general compliance with drawings titled "REMODELING AT 1892 INDIANOLA AVE, COLUMBUS, OHIO (Exhibit A)", "REMODELING AT 1892 INDIANOLA AVE, COLUMBUS, OHIO (SHEET A8), and "REMODELING AT 1892 INDIANOLA AVE, COLUMBUS, OHIO (SHEET A8B)", all signed by Fred Stewart-Magee, agent for applicant, and dated June 30, 2003.
Section 5. That this ordinance is further conditioned on the applicant obtaining all applicable permits and a Certificate of Occupancy for the proposed use.
Section 6. 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 from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor or ten days after its passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.