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File #: 1493-2025    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Second Reading
File created: 5/23/2025 In control: Zoning Committee
On agenda: 6/9/2025 Final action:
Title: To grant a Variance from the provisions of Sections 3332.38(H), Private garage; 3332.05(A)(4), Area district lot width requirements; 3332.25, Maximum side yards required; 3332.26, Minimum side yard permitted; and 3332.38(G), Private garage, of the Columbus City Codes; for the property located at 764 S. 6TH ST (43206), to allow habitable space above a detached garage with reduced development standards in the R-2F, Residential District (Council Variance #CV25-016).
Attachments: 1. ORD1493-2025.Attachments, 2. ORD1493-2025.Labels
Explanation

Council Variance Application: CV25-016

APPLICANT: John Ingwersen; 1050 Bryden Road; Columbus, OH 43205.

PROPOSED USE: Habitable space above a detached garage.

GERMAN VILLAGE COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval.

CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The site consists of one parcel developed with a single-unit dwelling and a detached garage in the R-2F, Residential District. The requested Council variance will allow the existing detached garage to be used with habitable space located on the second floor. A Council variance is required because habitable space above a garage is only allowed when connected directly to habitable space within a dwelling. Variances for reduced lot width, reduced maximum and minimum side yards for the existing dwelling, and increased garage height are also included in this request. Staff supports the proposed variances as the request will not introduce an incompatible use to the area and will also conform existing conditions, and will require a Certificate of Appropriateness for final building design from the German Village Commission

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To grant a Variance from the provisions of Sections 3332.38(H), Private garage; 3332.05(A)(4), Area district lot width requirements; 3332.25, Maximum side yards required; 3332.26, Minimum side yard permitted; and 3332.38(G), Private garage, of the Columbus City Codes; for the property located at 764 S. 6TH ST (43206), to allow habitable space above a detached garage with reduced development standards in the R-2F, Residential District (Council Variance #CV25-016).

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WHEREAS, by application #CV25-016, the owner of the property at 764 S. 6TH ST (43206), is requesting a Variance to allow habitable space above a detached garage with reduced development standards in the R-2F, Residential District; and

WHEREAS, Section 3332.38(H), Private garage, requires habitable space in a garage to connect directly with habitable space in a dwelling, while the applicant proposes habit...

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