Explanation
Council Variance Application: CV08-013
APPLICANT: City of Columbus Department of Finance and Management; c/o Laura MacGregor Comek, Attorney; 500 South Front Street, Suite 1200; Columbus, OH 43215.
PROPOSED USE: City impound lot, office, outside storage, and warehouse uses.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The 281.76± acre site is currently operating as an active limestone quarry zoned in the EQ, Excavation and Quarrying District. The mining, excavating, and quarrying operations include ancillary manufacturing uses, including but not limited to outdoor storage and office and warehouse structures. The site was part of the 1956 annexation of Merion Village into the City of Columbus, and as a result of the annexation, the EQ District was also established in 1956. The applicant requests a Council variance to establish the City of Columbus Parking Violations Bureau offices and impound lot on the southern 53.6± acres of the site, and to allow office, warehouse or outside storage uses that are ancillary to the mining, excavating, and quarrying operation. In order to maintain adequate buffering, the owner has committed to execute a conservation easement for the Kian Run area to the east of the impound lot site, and along the Scioto River. The site is located within the boundaries of The Scioto Southland Plan (2007), which recognizes the establishment of the impound lot on the southern portion of the site, and recommends park uses for the rest of the site once the quarrying operations become obsolete. The request is consistent with the land use recommendation of The Scioto Southland Plan, and approval of this request will not introduce an incompatible use to the area.
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To grant a Variance from the provisions of Section 3369.02, Permitted uses, of the Columbus City Codes; for the property located at 355 FRANK ROAD (43207), to permit City impound lot, office, outside storage, and warehouse uses in the EQ, Excavation a...
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