Explanation
Rezoning Application Z09-030
APPLICANT: Wagbros Co., Ltd; c/o David Hodge, Atty.; Smith & Hale; 37 West Broad Street, Suite 725; Columbus, OH 43215.
PROPOSED USE: To construct a four story building containing retail and restaurant uses and 39 multi-family dwelling units.
DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval (2-1-1) on October 8, 2009.
FIFTH BY NORTHWEST AREA COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The applicants are requesting a rezoning to the CPD, Commercial Planned Development District to replace a two story mixed use building destroyed by fire with a four story building containing retail and restaurant uses on the first floor and 39 multi-family dwelling units on the top three floors. A similar application, Z09-012, by the same applicant was approved by City Council on July 27, 2009. Since then, an agreement to share parking between applicant and an adjacent property owner that the Division of Planning & Operations conditioned their approval on has fallen through. Therefore that plan could not be approved for construction. The applicants have revised their proposal to account for their inability to use adjacent parking places by eliminating 2,565 square feet of space allocated for restaurant use. The applicants may or may not have a penthouse as part of the application and thus are asking approval of this proposal with or without said penthouse. The plan approved in the Z09-012 application had a parking variance of 224 spaces while the revised plan would have a parking variance of 190 or 194 parking spaces depending on whether the penthouse is built. The requested CPD, Commercial Planned Development District would provide for a mixed use building consistent with the Fifth by Northwest Neighborhood Plan (2009), zoning and development patterns of the area. The only aspects that have changed from Z09-012 is the parking ratio and the addition of the Penthouse. The Divis...
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