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Council Variance Application: CV05-071
APPLICANT: Scioto Riverpark, LLC; c/o David Hodge; Smith and Hale; 37 West Broad Street, Suite 725; Columbus, OH 43215.
PROPOSED USE: Parking.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The applicant is requesting a Council Variance to permit a parking lot in the PUD-4, Planned Unit Development District. A Council Variance is necessary because free-standing parking lots are not a permitted principal use in the Planned Unit Development District and parking spaces are required to be located on the same lot as the use they are intended to serve. This parking lot is intended to serve the existing multi-family use to the north, which is located on a separate parcel and in a different tax district (Perry Township). Staff finds the parking lot use consistent with and a continuation of current development trends in the area. This site is currently zoned for multi-family use as an extension of that same existing multi-family development to the north.
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To grant a variance from the provisions of Sections 3342.02, Administrative Requirements for Off-Street Parking and Loading, and 3345.04, Planned Unit Development District of the Columbus City Codes for the property at 2515 Olde Hill Court (43221), to permit a parking lot in the Planned Unit Development District that serves a multi-family use on a separate lot and to declare an emergency. (CV05-071)
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WHEREAS, by application #CV05-071 the owner of property at 2515 Olde Hill Court (43221), is requesting a Council Variance to permit a parking lot in the Planned Unit Development District that serves a multi-family use on a separate lot; and
WHEREAS, Section 3345.04, PUD, Planned Unit Development District, does not permit parking lots as a principal use; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation in the City of Columbus in that it...
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