Explanation
Rezoning Application Z14-011
APPLICANT: Homewood Corporation; c/o Laura MacGregor Comek, Atty.; Crabbe, Brown & James, LLP; 500 South Front Street, Suite 1200; Columbus, OH 43215.
PROPOSED USE: Multi-unit residential development.
DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval (5-0-1) on May 8, 2014.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The site is partially developed with an apartment complex and is zoned PUD-6, Planned Unit Development and R, Rural Districts. The current PUD-6 District allows 206 apartment units and 85 single-unit dwellings with a gross density of 4.45 units per acre. The applicant requests the PUD-6, Planned Unit Development District to allow the single-unit subarea to be revised for multi-unit residential development at a gross density of 4.13 units per acre. Additional acreage was added to the site which reduces the overall proposed density by 0.32 units per acre. A total of 291 units are still being proposed with 37.87± acres of open space. A portion of the site is located within the boundaries of the Southeast Area Plan (2000), which recommends park uses for this location. That portion of the site is being maintained as open space and is under the ownership of the City of Columbus. The PUD Plans and text include development standards for maximum number of units, open space, minimum square footages for two and three bedroom units, landscaping, lighting, and building orientation commitments that prevent the backs of buildings from facing public streets. A twenty-five foot landscaped buffer area and relocated open space are proposed along the south and east boundaries of the site in Subarea C in consideration of the abutting single-unit dwellings.
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To rezone 7351 REFUGEE ROAD (43137), being 70.5± acres being located on the south side of Refugee Road, 2,000± feet east of Mottsplace Road, From: PUD-6, Planned Unit Development and R, Rural Districts, To: PUD-6, Planned Unit Development District (...
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