Explanation
Rezoning Application: Z19-046
APPLICANT: Buckeye Truck and Trailer Service LLC; c/o Jackson B. Reynolds, Atty.; 37 West Broad Street, Suite 460; Columbus, OH 43215.
PROPOSED USE: Trucking use and storage.
DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval (4-0) on January 13, 2022.
SOUTHWEST AREA COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Disapproval.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The site is developed with a single-unit dwelling and garage, is being used for truck storage in the L-M, Limited Manufacturing District, and has an active zoning code violation for initiating this use without zoning clearance. The existing L-M district only permits the sale of boats, trailers, trailer hitches, and equestrian paraphernalia. The applicant is requesting a new L-M, Limited Manufacturing District to permit truck, trailer, and warehouse storage, and to legitimize the truck storage use. The limitation text commits to a site plan and includes development standards addressing site access, buffering, lighting, and graphics provisions. The site is located within the boundaries of the Southwest Area Plan (2009), which recommends “Light Industrial” land uses for this location. Additionally, the Plan includes early adoption of the Columbus Citywide Planning Policies (C2P2) Design Guidelines (2018), which recommend that landscaping, screening, and buffering should be used to soften industrial uses that face public streets, and to minimize or mitigate impacts on adjacent uses. The requested L-M, Limited Manufacturing District is consistent with Southwest Area Plan’s land use recommendation for light industrial uses. Additionally, the site plan includes street trees and landscape screening along Harrisburg Pike, as well as vegetative screening along the northern property line to buffer from adjacent residential uses, consistent with C2P2 Design Guidelines.
Title
To rezone 2333 HARRISBURG PIKE (43123), being 8.7± acres located on the northwest side of Harrisbur...
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