Explanation
COUNCIL VARIANCE: CV03-046
APPLICANT: Watermark Services, LLC.; c/o Jeffrey L. Brown, Atty; 37 West Broad Street, Suite 725; Columbus, Ohio 43215.
PROPOSED USE: Restaurant with drive-thru.
NEAR EAST AREA COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. This variance will permit a restaurant with a drive-thru and reduced development standards in the AR-O, Apartment Residential-Office District. The applicant has worked with city staff and the Near East Area Commission to provide site design and architectural development standards that contribute to safe pedestrian access and the neighborhood's architectural character. Variances are requested to reduce the building line on East Broad Street from 60 feet to 39 feet, parking setback lines on East Broad Street and Twenty-First Streets from 25 feet to 10 feet and 7 feet, respectively, rear yard from 25 percent to zero percent, on-site parking from 44 spaces to 25 spaces (Site Plan A; 0.584 acres) or 38 spaces (Site Plan B; 0.671 acres), width of the commercial driveway on parcel 010-006510 from 33± feet to 14± feet on one parcel and 19± on the adjacent parcel while retaining a total driveway width of 33± feet, and to eliminate headlight screening along the north property line. The applicant is in the process of acquiring an additional strip of land along the west property line that requires a technical variance for driveway width and that would reduce the variance requested for required parking spaces as shown in Site Plan B. The applicant has committed to detailed site plans and building elevations. A hardship exists in that establishing a C-4, Commercial District on this site would be inconsistent with existing zoning and development patterns, and with the Near East Area Plan (1995) land use recommendations.
Title
To grant a variance from the provisions of Sections 3333.04, Permitted uses; 3333.18, Building lines; 3333.24, Rear yard; 334...
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