Explanation
Council Variance Application: CV15-019
APPLICANT: Connie J. Klema; 145 East Rich Street, 2nd Floor; Columbus, OH 43215.
PROPOSED USE: Carriage house and reduced development standards for multi-unit residential development.
ITALIAN VILLAGE COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The applicant has received a recommendation of approval from the Development Commission on June 11, 2015, for a concurrent application to rezone the property (Ordinance No. 1859-2015, Z15-016) to the AR-2, Apartment Residential District. The requested variances will allow conversion of a former church to a seven-unit apartment building with a new single-unit carriage house (Lot 1), and two new apartment buildings containing a total of fourteen units (Lot 2), for a total of twenty-two units on two separate lots. This Council variance is necessary to permit the carriage house in conjunction with the renovated former church, and to permit 14 units contained in two separate apartment buildings on one lot that is less than 20,000 square feet in area. Other necessary variances include driveway width, maneuvering, required number of parking spaces, dumpster area, lot size, lot coverage, fronting on a public street, building lines, and perimeter yard. A hardship exists due to the existing non-conforming features of the former church structure and the lot size constraints of the adjacent vacant parcel, which formerly accommodated low-density residential uses. The proposed variances are supported because multi-unit residential development is an appropriate transition between existing residential and industrial development, the applicant proposes appropriate reuse of an existing historic church, and the configuration of the lots necessitate variances to use and development standards. Approval of this request will not introduce incompatible uses to the ar...
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