Explanation
Rezoning Application: Z16-080
APPLICANT: Preferred Living; c/o David Hodge, Atty.; Underhill & Hodge, LLC; 8000 Walton Parkway, Suite 260; New Albany, OH 43054.
PROPOSED USE: Mixed-use development.
DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval (5-0) on October 12, 2017.
WEST SCIOTO AREA COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: DisaApproval.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The site consists of 28.7+/- acres zoned in the M-2, Manufacturing, and R, Rural districts and is developed with a storage yard, a nonconforming mobile home park, and six single-unit dwellings on deep lots. The applicant requests the CPD, Commercial Planned Development District (10.5+/- acres) and the L-AR-1, Limited Apartment Residential District (18.2+/- acres) to permit a mixed use development. The requested CPD district would permit unspecified commercial development at a density of 35,000 square feet of building area per acre. The requested L-AR-1 district would permit 481 units at an effective density of 26.4 units per acre. The proposal includes appropriate use restrictions and establishes supplemental development standards that address access, lighting, landscaping and screening, building materials; commitment to elevation drawings for the apartment buildings and an overall site plan; and provisions for interconnectivity. The CPD district includes variances to reduce the required number of parking spaces to be consistent with the parking requirements of the Urban Commercial Overlay and to reduce the size of parking spaces and maneuvering to accommodate internal parcel lines within the development. The proposed CPD portion lies within the boundaries of the Trabue/Roberts Plan (2011), which recommends mixed use town center development at this location. The proposed L-AR-1 portion lies within the boundaries of the McKinley Avenue Corridor Plan (2000), which recommends preservation of existing manufacturing zoning and confining new residential development within...
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