Explanation
Rezoning Application: Z18-003
APPLICANT: Nationwide Children’s Hospital; c/o Jill S. Tangeman, Atty.; 52 East Gay Street; Columbus, OH 43215.
PROPOSED USE: Hospital and related uses.
DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval (7-0) on April 12, 2018.
LIVINGSTON AVENUE AREA COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Disapproval.
COLUMBUS SOUTH SIDE AREA COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The site is developed with a hospital complex, zoned CPD, Commercial Planned Development District, and the former Africentric High School, zoned I, Institutional District. The requested CPD, Commercial Planned Development District, will amend the existing zoning for Nationwide Children’s Hospital by incorporating the former school property into the overall CPD District. The CPD text maintains the current permitted uses and development standards of the existing CPD district, while providing some clarifications and creating a new CPD district boundary. The text also includes variances to building lines, vision clearance, landscaping, parking and loading-related reductions, and Urban Commercial Overlay requirements. The site lies within the boundaries of the Near Southside Plan (2011) which recommends “Institutional” and “Community Mixed Use” land uses, while the former school site lies outside the planning area. Staff is supportive of the reduced setbacks and increased height districts incorporated in the updated text as they are reflective of an institutional campus in an urban setting. The proposed modification to the CPD District would allow for orderly expansion of the hospital and associated facilities, is consistent with the development and zoning patterns of the area, and proposes no changes of substance to the CPD plan and text besides the addition of 7.45 acres.
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To rezone 700 CHILDRENS DRIVE (43205), being 71.34± acres generally bounded by Interstate 70 and Mooberry Street to the north, the f...
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