Explanation
Rezoning Application: Z21-062
APPLICANT: 2510 Bethel Road LLC; c/o David Hondros; 170 North Sunbury Road; Westerville, OH 43081.
PROPOSED USE: Car wash.
DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval (3-2) on October 14, 2021.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The site is an outparcel of a shopping center developed with a former bank in the CPD, Commercial Planned Development District. The applicant requests the CPD, Commercial Planned Development District to permit an automatic car wash. The development text commits to a site plan and landscape plan and includes development standards addressing setbacks, access, building design, and graphics provisions. Modifications to code standards to not provide an exclusive by-pass lane and to have the dumpster located in the north east corner of the property rather than behind the principal building are included in this request. The site is subject to the Bethel Road Regional Commercial Overlay and is located within the boundaries of The Northwest Plan (2016), which recommends “Mixed Use 1” uses at this location, including commercial uses. The Plan also recommends that parking lots should be provided to the rear of buildings and that all parking lots visible from roadways should have adequate screening. The requested CPD, Commercial Planned Development District will allow an automatic car wash development that is compatible with adjacent commercial development, and includes additional landscaping, screening, and street trees consistent with the parking and screening recommendations of The Northwest Plan.
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To rezone 2510 BETHEL RD. (43220), being 1.06± acres located on the north side of Bethel Road, 1,600± feet east of Sawmill Road, From: CPD, Commercial Planned Development District, To: CPD, Commercial Planned Development District (Rezoning #Z21-062).
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WHEREAS, application #Z21-062 is on file with the Department of Building and Zoning Services requesting rezoning of...
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