Explanation
Rezoning Application Z08-019
APPLICANT: Preferred Real Estate Investments II, LLC ; c/o Robert A. Meyer, Jr., Attorney; 41 South High Street; Columbus, OH 43215.
PROPOSED USE: Commercial development.
DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval (4-0-1) on June 12, 2008.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The 5.6± acre site consists of two parcels and is zoned in the R, Rural and L-C-3, Limited Commercial Districts. A hotel is under construction on the north parcel, zoned in the L-C-3, Limited Commercial District. The applicant is requesting the CPD, Commercial Planned Development District to allow a second hotel building on the south parcel and to allow variances for parking spaces and maneuvering across parcel lines. These are technical variances because the actual required parking spaces and maneuvering areas will be provided notwithstanding the existence of parcel lines. The proposal otherwise continues L-C-3 district's lighting, landscaping, and screening restrictions and limits uses to neighborhood scale commercial, offices, hotel/motels and related uses, and restaurants without drive-thru pick-up units. The site is located within the boundaries of the Subarea J.3 of The Far North Plan (1994). The plan recommends that "Appropriate development includes offices, institutional uses, and public or private recreational facilities. Retail development is not appropriate for this area." Deviation from the Plan's land use recommendation is warranted because 3.8 acres of this site was rezoned to the L-C-3, Limited Commercial District in 2000 and is being developed with a hotel. This request will incorporate the 1.81 acre parcel to the south with unified use restrictions and development standards. The proposed CPD, Commercial Planned Development District, with the development standards in the text and site plan, is compatible with development in the area.
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To rezone 9262 WORTHINGTON ROAD (43082), b...
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