Explanation
Council Variance: CV09-011
APPLICANT: Skilken Development LLC; c/o Rebecca Egelhoff, Atty.; 175 South Third Street, Suite 800; Columbus, OH 43215.
PROPOSED USE: Motor vehicle fuel sales and a car wash in conjunction with convenience retail sales.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The site is developed with a vacant automobile dealership zoned in the C-4, Commercial District. The applicant requests a Council variance to allow fuel sales and a car wash in conjunction with convenience retail sales. The variance is being requested instead of a rezoning to allow for a quicker sale of the property as the owner has filed for bankruptcy. The site is located in Area 20 within the planning area of the Northland Plan Volume I (2001). The Plan does not offer specific land use guidance for this site, although it does contain recommendations concerning the long-term viability and stabilization of this commercial corridor, and Staff has determined that the proposed commercial uses are appropriate. The site will be designed to include applicable Northland Development Standards (1992) as they apply to landscaping and screening and will comply with Regional Commercial Overlay provisions except to allow additional parking spaces. The applicant has committed to filing a follow-up rezoning application within eighteen (18) months to rezone the fuel station site and the property to the immediate west to the CPD, Commercial Planned Development District. The applicant has also committed to service station abandonment provisions and additional development standards for the proposed car wash.
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To grant a Variance from the provisions of Sections 3356.03, C-4 permitted uses; and 3372.809 A., Parking and circulation, of the Columbus City Codes; for the property located at 1953 MORSE ROAD (43229), to permit motor vehicle fuel sales and a car wash in conjunction with convenience retail sales with an increase in the maximum number of req...
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