Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance revises portions of Columbus Zoning Code Chapter 3355, which regulates C-3 Community Scale Commercial Development. The C-3 zoning district promotes community-scale commercial and retail uses where a business, profession, or service may be conducted.
The C-4 zoning district incorporates the permitted uses listed in 3355 under 3356.03. These changes will limit the parking lots that may be constructed in C-3 and C-4 zoning districts to those with a commercial, and not a residential, use.
FISCAL IMPACT: No funding is required for this legislation.
Title
To supplement and amend sections of Chapter 3355, "Community Scale Commercial Development," of the Columbus Zoning Code, in order to limit the parking lots that may be constructed in certain zoning areas to those with a commercial, and not a residential use.
Body
WHEREAS, this ordinance revises portions of Columbus Zoning Code Chapter 3355, which regulates C-3 Community Scale Commercial Development; and
WHEREAS, the C-3 zoning district promotes community-scale commercial and retail uses where a business, profession, or service may be conducted; and
WHEREAS, the C-4 zoning district incorporates the permitted uses listed in 3355 under 3356.03; and
WHEREAS, the existing provisions for dwelling units above commercial uses in the C-3 and C-4 districts may allow exclusively residential uses and parking without any other commercial use; and
WHEREAS, this revision will modify the C-3 and C-4 districts to require other commercial uses in addition to parking on the first floor below dwelling units; and
WHEREAS, the limit on parking lots in this section to those with commercial uses accurately reflects the inclusion of parking lots under the "commercial uses" of 3355.03(B); now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the existing Section 3355.03 of the Columbus City Codes, 1959, is hereby...
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