Explanation
Council Variance Application: CV20-037
APPLICANT: HK Phillips Restoration, Inc.; c/o Jeffrey L. Brown, Atty.; Smith and Hale, LLC; 37 West Broad Street, Suite 460; Columbus, OH 43215.
PROPOSED USE: Contractor’s office and storage yard.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The applicant has received a recommendation of approval from Staff and the Development Commission for a concurrent rezoning (Ordinance #1292-2018; Z20-032) to the M, Manufacturing District. The applicant requests variances to aisle width, parking lot landscaping and screening, building and parking setbacks, residential distance separation, and storage location. Staff supports the requested variances noting that the applicant has included screening to the east of the site, sidewalks and street trees along Harmon Avenue, consistent with Columbus Citywide Planning Policies (C2P2) Design Guidelines, and will develop the site in accordance with the submitted site plan.
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To grant a Variance from the provisions of Sections 3312.09, Aisle; 3312.21, Landscaping and screening; 3312.27, Parking setback line; 3363.24, Building lines in an M, Manufacturing District; 3363.27(B)(1) (2), Height and area regulations; and 3363.41, Storage; of the Columbus City Codes; for the property located at 972 HARMON AVE. (43223), to permit reduced development standards for a contractor’s office and storage yard in the M, Manufacturing District (Council Variance #CV20-037).
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WHEREAS, by application #CV20-037, the owner of property at 972 HARMON AVE. (43223), is requesting a Council variance to permit reduced development standards for a contractor’s office and storage yard in the M, Manufacturing District; and
WHEREAS, Section 3312.09, Aisle, requires a minimum width of twenty feet for parking spaces located at a 90 degree angle to the drive aisle, while the applicant proposes a seventeen foot wide drive aisle; and
WHEREAS, Section 3312.21, Landscaping and screening, requi...
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