Explanation
Council Variance Application: CV14-016
APPLICANT: Guy Williams Jr.; c/o David L. Hodge, Atty.; Smith & Hale, LLC; 37 West Broad Street, Suite 460, Columbus, OH 43215.
PROPOSED USE: Mixed residential development with reduced standards.
FIFTH BY NORTHWEST AREA COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. This site is developed with mixed commercial and industrial uses, two single-unit dwellings, and a vacant lot. The two furthest west lots were recently annexed from Clinton Township, and the applicant received a recommendation of approval from the Development Commission on June 12, 2014, for a concurrent rezoning (Ordinance No. 1592-2014; Z14-016) to the AR-1, Apartment Residential District. The six other lots were zoned to AR-1 in 2013, and are subject to Ordinance No. 1833-2013 (CV13-009) which allowed a configuration of two or three one- to three-unit dwellings per lot for six separate lots (twenty-eight total units). The requested variance will allow reconfiguration of that site and the two new lots for one four-unit dwelling, three three-unit dwellings, six two-unit dwellings, and one one-unit dwelling on one lot (Subarea 1), and a three-unit dwelling and a two-unit dwelling per lot for two separate lots (Subarea 2) for thirty-six total units. Other variances include fronting on a public street, and reductions to building lines, perimeter yard, and landscaping and screening. This proposal contains the same average number of dwelling units per lot as the current Council Variance request, and is consistent with reconfigured sites to the south on Chesapeake Avenue. The site is located within the planning area of the Fifth by Northwest Neighborhood Plan (2009), which recommends mixed-use development for this location. Staff finds that the proposal meets the Plan’s considerations, and believes that it will not add incompa...
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