Explanation
Council Variance Application: CV10-021
APPLICANT: Town and Country City, Inc., et al.; c/o Charles Fraas, CASTO, 191 W. Nationwide Blvd., Ste. 200, Columbus, OH 43215.
PROPOSED USE: Concurrent Council Variance with Z10-013, to allow commercial uses and to reduce development standards in the L-AR-O, Limited Apartment Residential District.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The applicant is requesting a concurrent Council variance with rezoning application Z10-013 to allow commercial uses in the L-AR-O, Limited Apartment Office District which permits office and multi-unit dwellings. The applicant also requests variances to perimeter yard requirements and building lines to bring buildings closer to Hamilton Road and to eliminate interior perimeter yards. The site lies within the Preserve District in the Northland Plan Volume 2 (2002). The City Departments recommend approval for this concurrent Council variance because the requested Council variance would allow neighborhood scale commercial uses in this proposed L-AR-O. Limited Apartment Office District along with office uses and multi-unit dwellings, both of which are already permitted. This would allow a mixed use, pedestrian oriented area designed primarily to serve the residents of this L-AR-O, Limited Apartment Office District, similar to Traditional Neighborhood Development. Additionally, the applicant requests variances to bring the proposed buildings closer to Hamilton Road than would be allowed and to eliminate perimeter yards interior to the development both of which are needed to help create this type of neighborhood. The applicants have agreed to certain conditions to ensure these uses do not negatively impact the existing adjacent single-unit dwellings. Additionally the applicants request relief from the Parkland Dedication Ordinance citing they provided parkland as part of zoning Z05-054 which this site was originally part of. The Recreation and Parks Department approv...
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