Explanation
Council Variance Application: CV13-016
APPLICANT: Guy Williams; c/o Jeffrey L. Brown & David L. Hodge, Attys.; Smith and Hale; 37 West Broad Street, Suite 725; Columbus, OH 43215.
PROPOSED USE: Concurrent Council variance with Rezoning Z13-023 to reduce development standards for proposed multiple-unit dwellings.
FIFTH BY NORTHWEST AREA COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The subject site is proposed to be rezoned to the AR-1, Apartment Residential District. The applicant is requesting this concurrent Council variance along with the rezoning Z13-023 to allow one 3-unit building and one 2-unit building on each lot with reduced development standards. Given the predominance of multi-unit dwellings developed by the applicant or under development by the applicant, Staff finds the proposed use and zoning compatible with the zoning pattern and development pattern of the area. Furthermore, Staff finds the proposed use to be consistent with the land use recommendations of the Fifth by Northwest Neighborhood Plan (2009). Staff views the variances to allow buildings containing just two dwelling units and the variance to permit dwellings with frontage on a public street as technicalities which will have no negative effect on the development or the surrounding area. The proposed building line reduction is in keeping with similar variances already granted elsewhere to the applicant along Chesapeake Avenue. Staff can support a side yard setback reduction along with allowing parking in the side yards without screening in this instance since this site abuts the applicant's properties on either side and once developed the applicant would only be impacting himself and his buyers or tenants.
Title
To grant a Variance from the provisions of Sections 3333.02, AR-1, Apartment Residential District; 3312.21, Landscaping and screening; 3312.25, Maneuvering; 3333.09, Area requirements; 3333.16, Fronting on a public...
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