Explanation
Council Variance Application: CV07-039
APPLICANT: EPCON Sugar Run, LLC; c/o Thomas L. Hart, Attorney; 300 Spruce Street, Floor One; Columbus, Ohio 43215.
PROPOSED USE: Single-family dwellings, two-, three- and four-unit dwellings as a multiple dwelling development.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Disapproval. Approval. This is a request to allow single-family dwellings and two-, three-, and four-unit dwellings in the L-AR-O, Limited Apartment Residential/Office District as a multiple-dwelling development. A variance is needed to permit more than one single-family or two-unit dwelling on each of the two parcels that make up the 62.77± acres. There is an existing council variance passed December 12, 2005, CV05-048, which allows a maximum of 350 dwelling units on 76.12 acres. The proposed council variance, CV07-039, would not permit the number of units to exceed 350 dwelling units on the 62.77± acres, which are located within the 76.12 acre parcel. Staff supports allowing single-family dwellings as one option for development on the site. The applicant has agreed to a number of conditions relative to the development of the site, which are included in the conditions at the end of the ordinance, . but not all of the conditions proposed by staff, based on the Rocky- Fork - Blacklick Accord's provisions for single-family development, have been agreed-to. The major unresolved issues are internal sidewalks and building orientation relative to open space. The Accord provision is for sidewalks on both sides of streets. The applicant does not intend to construct internal sidewalks, but proposes that the private streets will be designed in a manner that the residents can utilize the streets, along with the proposed path system, to walk on, instead of sidewalks. The Accord additionally includes a provision that single-family houses should front onto open spaces, while the applicant is proposing they back up to open spaces. The applican...
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