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Council Variance Application: CV16-016
APPLICANT: Steve Buddelmeyer, Marathon Pipeline, LLC; 539 South Main Street; Findlay, OH 45840.
PROPOSED USE: Petroleum pipeline utility station.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. This site is an approximately 1,184’ long narrow strip of land that runs adjacent and parallel to Interstate 270. The site is occupied with a petroleum pipeline utility station that was installed in 1971 and has remained non-conforming since annexation in 1988. The rest of the site was subsequently developed with mixed residential uses in the AR-O, Apartment Residential/Office, and the CPD, Commercial Planned Development Districts. The station lies within a utility easement and consists of a small outbuilding and several above-grade pipes and valves within a fenced area. The variance is requested to conform the utility station and to permit the installation of a tank to serve as a system safety upgrade to protect the pipeline and station from abnormal operating conditions. The tank will not be used for storage and will be empty during normal operations. A variance is necessary because utility stations are permitted only in the I, Institutional District. Staff supports this request and notes that the utility station has long been established on this site while not negatively affecting nearby residential uses, and that the proposed tank is a necessary system safety upgrade for the pipeline.
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To grant a Variance from the provisions of Sections 3333.04, AR-O Permitted Uses; and 3361.02, CPD Permitted Uses, of the Columbus City Codes; for the property located at 5637 EDWARDS FARMS ROAD (43016), to conform a petroleum pipeline utility station and permit a proposed tank as a system safety upgrade in the AR-O, Apartment Office and CPD, Commercial Planned Development Districts (Council Variance # CV16-016).
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WHEREAS, by application No. CV16-016, the owner of property at 5637 EDWARDS FARMS ROAD (43016), is...
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