Explanation
Rezoning Application Z07-039
APPLICANT: E. George Bellows; c/o James M. Schottenstein; 341 South Third Street; Columbus, OH 43215.
PROPOSED USE: To conform an existing office use.
DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval (5-0) on October 11, 2007.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The requested C-2, Commercial District will make the existing office use conforming. The site has been zoned in the R, Rural District since it was annexed into the City in 1975. The office use is surrounded by office, warehouse and manufacuring uses and is compatible with the zoning and development patterns of the area.
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To rezone 2850 FISHER ROAD (43204), being 0.25± acres located on the north side of Fisher Road, 560± feet east of Interstate-70 (010-153700). From: R, Rural District, To: C-2, Commercial District. (Rezoning # Z07-039)
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WHEREAS, application #Z07-039 is on file with the Building Services Division of the Department of Development requesting rezoning of 0.25± acres from R, Rural District, to the C-2, Commercial District; and
WHEREAS, the Development Commission recommends approval of said zoning change; and
WHEREAS, the City Departments recommend approval of said zoning change because the requested C-2, Commercial District will make the existing office use conforming. The site has been zoned in the R, Rural District since it was annexed into the City in 1975. The office use is surrounded by office, warehouse and manufacturing uses and is compatible 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:
2850 FISHER ROAD (43085), being 0.25± acres located on the north side of Fisher Road 560± feet east of Interstate-70 (010-153700), and being more particularly described as follows:
DESCRIPTION OF A 0.247 ACRE TRACT OF LAND
AT 2850 FISHER ROAD,
CITY OF COLUMBUS, FRANKLIN CO., OHIO
Situated in the State of Ohio, County of Franklin, City of Columbus, in Virginia Military Survey No. 530, and being all of a 0.2485 acre tract of land (0.247 acre by recent survey) conveyed as Tract 4 to A. C. Strip, Receiver for Robert T. Farley, Jr. by deed of record in Instrument No. 200601270017292, all references to the Recorder's Office, Franklin County, Ohio, bounded and described as follows:
Beginning, for reference, at the Franklin County Geodetic Survey Monument No. ST02 found in the centerline of Fisher Road (60 feet in width), said monument being 971.9 feet east from the intersection of the centerline of Hague Avenue with the centerline of Fisher Road;
thence N 72° 09' 36" E along the centerline of Fisher Road a distance of 505.69 feet to a MAG nail set at a southeast corner of an original 1.0815 acre tract of land conveyed to E. T. I. Corp by deeds of record in D. B. 2901, Pages 1, 3 & 6, and at the southwest corner of said 0.247 acre tract, said point being the true place of beginning of the tract herein intended to be described;
thence N 23° 46' 16" W along an east line of said original 1.0815 acre tract and along the west line of said 0.247 acre tract a distance of 170.00 feet to a MAG nail set at a corner of said original 1.0815 acre tract, at the southwest corner of a 0.023 acre tract of land conveyed as Tract 5 to A. C. Strip, Receiver for Robert T. Farley, Jr. by deed of record in Instrument No. 200601270017292 and at the northwest corner of said 0.247 (passing a 3/4-inch I.D. iron pipe set in the north right-of-way line of Fisher Road at 30.16 feet);
thence N 72° 09' 36" E along the south line of said 0.023 acre tract and along the north line of said 0.247 acre tract a distance of 63.68 feet to a MAG nail set at the northeast corner of said 0.247 acre tract, at the southeast corner of said 0.023 acre tract and in the west line of Westplex Business Park Condominium of record in Condo Plat Book 168, Page 70 and recorded in Instrument No. 200606080111794;
thence S 23° 46' 16" E along the east line of said 0.247 acre tract and along a portion of the west line of said Westplex Business Park Condominium a distance of 170.00 feet to a MAG nail set at the southeast corner of said 0.247 acre tract, at the southwest corner of Westplex Business Park Condominium and in the centerline of Fisher Road (passing a 3/4-inch I.D. iron pipe set in the north right-of-way line of Fisher Road at 139.84 feet);
thence S 72° 09' 36" W along the centerline of Fisher Road and along the south line of said 0.247 acre tract a distance of 63.68 feet to the true place of beginning;
containing 0.247 acres of land more or less and being subject to all legal highways, easements and restrictions of record.
The above description was prepared by Kevin L. Baxter, Ohio Surveyor No. 8061, of C.F. Bird & R.J. Bull, Inc., Consulting Engineers & Surveyors, Columbus, Ohio, from an actual field survey performed under his supervision in November, 2005 July, 2007. Each 3/4-inch I.D. iron pipe set is marked with a yellow cap imprinted "Bird & Bull, Inc.". Basis of bearings is the centerline of Fisher Road, being N 72° 09' 36" E, as transferred from a GPS survey of Franklin County monuments FCGS 6654 RESET and FCGS 5335 performed by the Franklin County Engineers Office in 1991, and is based on the NAD83 Ohio State Plane Coordinate System, South Zone (1986 Adjustment).
To Rezone From: R, Rural District,
To: C-2, Commercial District
Section 2. That a Height District of thirty-five (35) feet is hereby established on the C-2, Commercial District on this property.
Section 3. That the Director of the Department of Development be, and he 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.