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2026-06-01 - Zoning Committee

Summary

Built from the final minutes (regular meeting no. 28 of City Council, zoning). No agenda or video is recorded. The minutes record motions and votes only: no applicants, staff presentations or public testimony. The full Council met earlier the same evening: 2026-06-01 - Columbus City Council. The committee next met on 2026-06-08 - Zoning Committee.

  • Scheduled for 6:30 PM; called to order 6:44 PM with all nine members present: Bankston, Barroso De Padilla, Day-Achauer, Dorans (Zoning chair), Green, Remy, Ross, Wyche and Hardin (vice chair). Adjourned 6:52 PM (Bankston / Wyche, 9-0).
  • Journal dispensed with and approved 9-0 (Green / Remy).
  • Five items, all approved and every vote 9-0: two rezonings (4559 Knightsbridge Blvd. and 7210 Long Rd.) and three council variances (Long Road, East Deshler Avenue, Stewart Avenue).
  • Dorans moved every item; the second readings of the other four were waived (Dorans / Wyche) and the Knightsbridge rezoning was the only item amended.
  • For each variance the committee also accepted the entire staff report into evidence and adopted the findings of staff as the findings of Council (Dorans / Day-Achauer; for the Stewart Avenue staff-report motion, Dorans / Barroso De Padilla).

Knightsbridge Boulevard Commercial Rezoning

  • 1326-2026 (Rezoning Z26-003): 4559 Knightsbridge Blvd. (43214), 6.03 acres on the north side of West Henderson Road, 300 feet west of Knightsbridge Boulevard, from CPD, Commercial Planned Development, to CPD (a change within the same district). Amended as submitted to the Clerk (Dorans / Ross), amended to an emergency (Dorans / Ross), and approved as amended (Dorans / Day-Achauer); all 9-0. The amendment text is not in the minutes.

Abbie Trails Drive Apartment Rezoning

  • 1531-2026 (Rezoning Z26-011): 7210 Long Rd. (43110), 14.8 acres at the northeast corner of Long Road and Abbie Trails Drive, from R (Rural), RRR (Restricted Rural Residential) and PUD-6 (Planned Unit Development) to L-AR-1, Limited Apartment Residential. Second reading waived (Dorans / Wyche) and approved (Dorans / Day-Achauer); 9-0.
  • 1532-2026 (Council Variance CV26-026): reduces the required building setback line (Section 3333.18) for an apartment complex at the same site. Second reading waived (Dorans / Wyche), staff report accepted, findings adopted, approved; all 9-0.
  • Related: Long Road Apartment Rezoning is a different Long Road site (June 22).

East Deshler Avenue Two-Unit Dwelling Variance

  • 1534-2026 (CV26-034): allows a two-unit dwelling at 3527 E. Deshler Ave. (43227) in the R-2 residential district (Section 3332.033). Second reading waived, staff report accepted, findings adopted, approved; all 9-0.

Stewart Avenue Monopole Tower Variance

  • 1535-2026 (CV26-019): variances from the R-4 district and height, screening, maneuvering, parking, vision clearance, lot width, building line, perimeter yard and C-2 limitation sections for 1111 Stewart Ave. (43206), to allow mixed-residential development and a monopole telecommunications tower with reduced development standards, and to revoke Ordinance 2473-2015 (CV15-036), passed October 19, 2015. Second reading waived (Dorans / Wyche), staff report accepted (Dorans / Barroso De Padilla), findings adopted, approved (Dorans / Day-Achauer); all 9-0.

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