Explanation
Rezoning Application Z09-012
APPLICANT: Wagbros Co., Ltd; c/o David Hodge, Atty.; Smith & Hale; 37 West Broad Street, Suite 725; Columbus, OH 43215.
PROPOSED USE: To construct a four story building containing retail and restaurant uses and 39 multi-family dwelling units.
DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval (4-0) on June 11, 2009.
FIFTH BY NORTHWEST AREA COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The applicants are applying for a rezoning from the C-4, Commercial District and L-P-1, Limited Parking District to replace a two story mixed use building destroyed by fire with a four story building containing retail and restaurant uses on the first floor and 39 multi-family dwelling units on the top three floors. The applicants are seeking variances to setbacks, maneuvering along the alley, parking lot screening and for the amount of parking to be provided. Staff supports the variances to setbacks since they are necessary to allow the proposed building to reestablish the footprint and street presence of the former building. Staff supports the variances to eliminate screening and decrease maneuvering along the alley since these variances are needed to allow the sixteen proposed parking spaces that were not present before. The applicants are requesting a parking variance to provide 225 less spaces than required. The Department of Public Service, Division of Planning and Operations has agreed to support the 225 space parking variance because the applicant has provided proof of agreements for offsite parking and agreed to off-site signage to mitigate the impact of the variance. Therefore, the requested CPD, Commercial Planned Development District would provide for a mixed use building consistent with the Fifth by Northwest Neighborhood Plan (2009) and with zoning and development patterns of the area.
Title
To rezone 1382 GRANDVIEW AVENUE (43212), being 0.81± acres located...
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