City of Columbus - File #: 1475-2015

• File #: 1475-2015
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 5/28/2015
• In control: Zoning Committee
• On agenda: 6/15/2015
• Final action: 6/16/2015
• Title: To grant a Variance from the provisions of Sections 3332.037, R-2F, Residential district; 3312.49, Minimum numbers of parking spaces required; 3321.05(B)(1), Vision clearance; 3332.26, Minimum side yard permitted; 3332.28, Side or rear yard obstruction; 3372.605(D), Building design standards; and 3372.607(D), Landscaping and screening, of the Columbus City codes; for the property located at 701-705 EAST LONG STREET (43203), to permit a mixed-use building with reduced development standards in the R-2F, Residential District, and to repeal Ordinance No. 1398-2005, passed on October 3, 2005 (Council Variance # CV15-030).

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/16/2015	1	MAYOR	Signed
6/16/2015	1	CITY CLERK	Attest
6/15/2015	1	COUNCIL PRESIDENT	Signed
6/15/2015	1	Zoning Committee	Approved	Pass
6/8/2015	1	Columbus City Council	Read for the First Time

Explanation

Council Variance Application: CV15-030

APPLICANT: Cap-View Commons LLC; c/o Thomas Shelby, Agent; 1592 Granville Street; Columbus, OH 43202.

PROPOSED USE: Mixed-use building.

NEAR EAST AREA COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval.

CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The site is developed with a 6,100± square-foot mixed-use building in the R-2F, Residential District, and is subject to Ordinance No. 1398-2005 (CV05-029) to allow a specified range of commercial uses and to conform existing conditions. The requested Council Variance will add barber shop and beauty salon to the list of permitted uses approved in 2005. The site was rezoned from the C-4, Commercial District to the R-2F, Residential District as part of the 1973 Model Cities rezoning. A variance is necessary because the R-2F District prohibits commercial uses. The site is located within the planning area of the Near East Area Plan (2005), which recommends higher-density residential and mixed-use development for this location. The site also lies within the planning area of the King-Lincoln District Plan (2002), which encourages an Arts and Entertainment Center and shared parking district along Long Street west of Monroe Avenue. The site is included within the Long Street Neighborhood Commercial Revitalization area, and is within the Urban Commercial Overlay. The addition of the two proposed commercial uses within the existing mixed-use building is consistent with both area plans’ land use recommendations, and with established development pattern along East Long Street. Approval of this request will not add new or incompatible uses to the area. The western part of this site is developed with a separate commercial building addressed as 695 East Long Street that is subject to Ordinance No.1400-2005 (CV05-031) which allowed a similar range of uses and conformed existing conditions. Both buildings are now si...