Explanation
Council Variance Application: CV12-043
APPLICANT: Ken Kemper, Ohio Presbyterian Retirement Services; c/o Jim Churski, Agent; JMM Architects; 4685 Larwell Drive; Columbus, OH 43220.
PROPOSED USE: Private parking lot in the AR-1 District, and reduced development standards for a retirement community in the AR-4 AR-3 District.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The site is currently developed with a mixture of 345 senior apartment and assisted living/nursing home units. The requested Council Variance will allow the construction of a 31-space private parking lot in the AR-1, Apartment Residential District, and a new 8-story, 67-unit senior apartment building and three detached garage buildings within an existing retirement community development in the AR-4 AR-3, Apartment Residential District. The parking lot will serve the retirement community, and is immediately adjacent to a parking lot for an apartment complex. The retirement community site is subject of the 1994 Goodale Slum Clearance Area Redevelopment Plan (Ordinance No. 11-94) which included variances for increased building height, and a parking space reduction to allow 0.75 spaces/unit. The ordinance also limited the maximum lot coverage and permitted unlimited density. This request carries over those variances but removes the lot coverage restriction, and also includes variances for parking and building setbacks, reduced perimeter yard, and increased detached garage height. The applicant has also committed to additional landscaping around the parking lot and lighting controls. Staff finds that the proposal will not add new or incompatible uses to the area as the proposed apartment building is consistent with the established development pattern within the retirement community, and the proposed parking lot will free up more on-street parking spaces for neighborhood residents or park visitors of nearby Wheeler Dog Park.
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To grant a Variance from the provisions...
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