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Council Variance Application: CV02-059
APPLICANT: Wendy's Gymnastics, Inc. c/o Jeffrey L. Brown, Smith and Hale, 37 West Broad Street, Suite 725, Columbus, Ohio (43215).
PROPOSED USE: Gymnastics school.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The site is developed with a 14,600 square foot warehouse building. The applicant is currently using 3,500 square feet of the existing warehouse for a gymnastics school as permitted by Ordinance 1996-93, passed on October 4, 1993 (CV93-052), and requests a 7,100 square feet expansion into the existing building. A Council variance is necessary in that a gymnastics school is only permitted in the C-4, Commercial, and M, Manufacturing Districts. Variances for existing conditions for the building and parking lot are also included in the request. A hardship exists in that the applicant has already established the gymnastics school use within the existing building, but cannot acquire additional square footage without the use variance.
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To grant a Variance from the provisions of Sections 3367.01, M-2, Manufacturing District; 3367.15, M-2, Manufacturing district special provisions; 3342.17, Parking lot screening; 3342.18, Parking setback; 3342.24, Surface; and 3342.28, Minimum number of parking spaces required; of the Columbus City Codes for the property located at 2436 WOOD AVENUE (43221), to permit a gymnastics school with a maximum of 10,600 square feet in an existing 14,600 square foot warehouse building with reduced development standards in the M-2, Manufacturing District, and to repeal Ordinance 1996-93, passed October 4, 1993 (Council Variance # CV02-059).
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WHEREAS, by application # CV02-059, the owner of property at 2436 Wood Avenue is requesting a Council variance to permit the use of a maximum of 10,600 square feet within a 14,600 square foot warehouse building for a gymnastics school in the M-2, Manufact...
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