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Council Variance Application CV08-015
APPLICANT: Anderson Properties Limited Partnership; c/o Brent D. Rosenthal and Jackie Lynn Hager, Attorneys; Carlile Patchen & Murphy LLP; 366 East Broad Street; Columbus, Ohio 43215.
PROPOSED USE: Variances for an existing more objectionable manufacturing use within 600 feet of residential, surface, striping and parking.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. This is a companion Council variance to Ordinance # 0046-2009 (Z06-081), a rezoning request from R, Rural District to L-M, Limited Manufacturing District. The non-conforming manufacturing company on the site makes glass products for residential, automotive and commercial markets, including the bending of glass for lenses for the lighting industry. The existing uses on the site include production of glass products, an event center, and a child day care. The day care was originally permitted by council variance in 2006, when the property was zoned in the R, Rural District. The applicant is requesting this Council variance to vary the requirements for parking lot surface, striping and marking of parking spaces, a reduction in the required parking spaces from 216 to 44, and that a more objectionable use, glass production, not be located within 600 feet of a residential or apartment residential district. The entire site is located within 600 feet of a residential and apartment residential zoning district. Glass production is the only "more objectionable manufacturing use" that would be allowed on the site. The Transportation Division has reviewed the proposed parking variance and has determined that it can be supported based on the current uses at this site and the complementary peak demands of the allowable uses, and because an additional 100 unpaved parking spaces are available on the site. The proposed development, as conditioned, is compatible with development in the area.
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To grant a Variance from the provisions o...
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