Explanation
Rezoning Application # Z04-054
APPLICANT: Service Master; c/o Michael T. Shannon, Atty.; 500 South Front Street, Suite 1200; Columbus, Ohio
43215.
PROPOSED USE: Landscaping business and retail nursery.
DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval (5-0) on September 9, 2004.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Disapproval. The Southeast Area Plan (2000) recommendation for the site is for hamlet/open space residential uses. The requested CPD, Commercial Planned Development District will allow a retail nursery and landscaping business. The subject site has recently been annexed into the City of Columbus, and the applicant is seeking a comparable zoning from the SCPD, Select Commercial Planned District designation that it held in Madison Township. In addition, because the structures and certain development standards on the site already exist, this rezoning is being filed to address any pre-existing, non-conforming development standards. Recent rezoning requests for Traditional Neighborhood Development across Ebright Road have been approved. The requested CPD, Commercial Planned Development District is inconsistent with the zoning and development patterns of the area.
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To rezone 5221 EBRIGHT ROAD (43110), being 2.63± acres located on the west side of Ebright Road, 180± feet north of US 33, From: R, Rural District, To: CPD, Commercial Planned Development District and to declare an emergency. (Rezoning # Z04-054).
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WHEREAS, application #Z04-054 is on file with the Building Services Division of the Department of Development requesting rezoning of 2.63± acres from R, Rural District to CPD, Commercial Planned Development District; and
WHEREAS, the Development Commission recommends approval of said zoning change; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation in the City of Columbus in that it is immediately necessary to pass this ordinance due to the fact that the Applicant will ...
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