Explanation
Rezoning Application Z15-048
APPLICANT: Carriage Place; c/o Charlie Fraas and Brent Myers; 250 Civic Center Drive; Suite 500; Columbus, OH 43215.
PROPOSED USE: To update an existing CPD for a shopping center to permit increased restaurant and theater square footage, increased parking, and increased height of light poles.
DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval (4-0) on January 8, 2015.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: The site is developed with a shopping center and zoned in the CPD, Commercial Planned Development District. The current CPD district limits the size of the movie theater to no more than 2060 seats and the total aggregate square footage for restaurants at 18,200 square feet. The requested CPD district removes those restrictions, but caps the total commercial floor area to 307,450 square feet. Staff supports removal of these size limitations since the existing parking count of the shopping center currently exceeds the maximum permitted. The allowable sizes will instead be controlled by the code-required minimum number of parking spaces in Chapter 3312, Off-Street Parking and Loading, of the Columbus Zoning Code. The site lies within the planning area of the Northwest Plan (2007), which recommends retail uses to be concentrated at the intersection of Bethel and Sawmill Roads. The request to increase the allowable buildable space for retail or restaurant uses on the site is consistent with Plan recommendations. The CPD text addresses customary use restrictions, site access, landscaping and buffering, outdoor display controls and lighting standards, and is consistent with previous development texts for this site. Variances included in this request will conform the increased light pole height from twenty-eight (28) feet to thirty (30) feet, and the existing maximum number of parking spaces required. All other aspects of the current CPD district are unchanged and remain intact.
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To rezone 2698 BETHEL ROAD (...
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