Explanation
Council Variance Application: CV20-072
APPLICANT: 5CL Properties, LLC; c/o Dave Perry, Agent; David Perry Company, Inc.; 411 East Town Street, 1st Floor; Columbus, OH 43215; and Donald Plank, Atty.; Plank Law Firm; 411 East Town Street, 2nd Floor; Columbus, OH 43215.
PROPOSED USE: Mixed-use development.
MILO-GROGAN AREA COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The applicant has received a recommendation of approval from Staff and the Development Commission for a concurrent rezoning (Ordinance #1897-2021; Z20-065) to the AR-3, Apartment Residential, and CPD, Commercial Planned Development districts to allow multi-unit residential development and a parking lot. The requested Council variance will permit mixed-use development with a maximum of 90 apartment units (115.4 du/AC), and a ground floor commercial space with up to 3,600 square feet and 274 square feet of seasonal patio space. Variances are requested to permit the commercial use, increased lot coverage, and to reduce the parking setback line, the minimum numbers of parking spaces from 185 to 118, vision clearance, landscaping, and building lines. Staff finds the requested variances to be supportable as they are consistent with recent similar urban in-fill residential developments, and will allow a development that meets the intent of the Urban Commercial Overlay, as recommended by the Milo-Grogan Area Plan (2007) and Columbus Citywide Planning Policies (C2P2) Design Guidelines.
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To grant a Variance from the provisions of Sections 3333.03, AR-3 apartment residential district use; 3312.21(A), Landscaping and screening; 3312.27(3), Parking setback line; 3312.49, Minimum numbers of parking spaces required; 3321.05(A)(1)(B)(2), Vision clearance; 3321.07(B), Landscaping; 3333.15(C), Basis of computing area; and 3333.18, Building lines, of the Columbus City Codes; for the property located at 986 CLEVELAND AVE. (43201), to permit a mixed-us...
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