Explanation
Rezoning Application: Z20-055
APPLICANT: Homeport; c/o Laura MacGregor Comek, Atty.; 17 South High Street, Suite 700; Columbus, OH 43215.
PROPOSED USE: Mixed-use development.
DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval (5-0) on July 8, 2021.
NORTH LINDEN AREA COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval.
CITY DEPARTMENTS’ RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The site consists of sixteen parcels developed with a religious facility, several dwellings, and an apartment building zoned in the R-4, Residential, and C-1 and C-4, Commercial districts, and is partially located within the Cleveland Avenue/North Linden Urban Commercial Overlay (UCO). Additionally, this site includes a pending vacation of 0.72 acres of adjacent right-of-way that will increase the area of the site to 3.0 acres. Council variance Ordinance #1653-2020 (CV20-049) permitted a multi-unit senior housing development and neighborhood scale commercial uses for the competitive funding process by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The requested CPD, Commercial Planned Development District will permit redevelopment of the site with a 100-unit senior housing development within two buildings, and approximately 3,196 square feet of commercial space along the Cleveland Avenue frontage. The development text includes use restrictions, commits to a site plan and landscaping plan, and includes development standards addressing setbacks and site access. Variances in the CPD text are included to vary vision clearance, UCO building design standards, and to permit a maximum building height of 45 feet in the H-35 height district. The site is within the planning area of the North Linden Neighborhood Plan Amendment (2014), which recommends “Neighborhood Mixed Use” and “Medium Density Mixed Residential” land uses for this location, and includes adoption of the Columbus Citywide Planning Policies (C2P2) Design Guidelines (2018). The request is consistent with the land use recommendation of the Pla...
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