Explanation
Rezoning Application # Z09-040
APPLICANT: Skilken D.S.; c/o Seth Dorman, Agent; 4270 Morse Road; Columbus, OH 43230.
PROPOSED USE: Retail pharmacy with drive-thru.
DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval (5-1) on August 12, 2010.
FAR SOUTH COLUMBUS AREA COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Disapproval. The 2.13± site encompasses a vacant used car lot in the C-4, Commercial District, an undeveloped lot in the R-2, Residential District, and an unutilized portion of a parcel that is used for the neighboring fast-food restaurant's drive-thru circulation in the L-C-4, Limited Commercial District. The applicant requests the CPD, Commercial Planned Development District for a retail pharmacy with a drive-thru. The site is located within the planning area of the Scioto Southland Plan (2007), which identifies the intersection of South High Street and Williams Road as a neighborhood center, and recommends mixed-use commercial development for this location in accordance with the Community Commercial Overlay (CCO). The CPD plan and text commit to a landscape plan and elevation drawings, and include use restrictions and development standards that address building and parking setbacks, screening, landscaping, outside display provisions, bicycle parking, and lighting controls. Variances for CCO requirements pertaining to building and parking setbacks, building width percentage, window glass percentage, and parking and circulation are included in the request. While supportive of the proposed use, Staff is not supportive of the requested variances and believes that there is no reason the development cannot comply with the Overlay requirements. Staff does, however, recognize that the development is generally compliant with the Regional Commercial Overlay (RCO), and that this portion of South High Street was originally to be designated within the RCO as it was along the west side of South High Street, ...
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