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2026-06-29 - Zoning Committee

Summary

Built from the final minutes (regular meeting no. 34 of City Council, zoning). No agenda or video is recorded. The minutes do not record applicants, staff presentations or public testimony. The full Council met earlier the same evening: 2026-06-29 - Columbus City Council.

  • Scheduled for 6:30 PM; called to order 7:17 PM with all nine members present: Bankston, Barroso De Padilla, Day-Achauer, Dorans (presiding as Zoning chair), Green, Remy, Ross, Wyche and Hardin. Adjourned 10:05 PM (Wyche / Bankston, 9-0).
  • Journal dispensed with and approved 9-0 (Green / Wyche).
  • Four rezonings and three council variances were on the calendar. Two were not unanimous: the Dewey Avenue rezoning (5-4) and the North Hague Avenue rezoning (7-2).
  • One rezoning (Demorest Road) was referred to committee 9-0.

Dewey Avenue Manufacturing Rezoning

  • 1284-2026 (Rezoning Z26-006): 2.29 acres on the south side of Dewey Avenue at the southern terminus of Key West Avenue (43219), from M, Manufacturing, and R-1, Residential, to L-M, Limited Manufacturing. Dorans / Green moved to amend it as submitted to the Clerk, 5-4. Dorans / Wyche moved approval as amended, 5-4. In favor both times: Bankston, Dorans, Green, Wyche and Hardin. Opposed: Barroso De Padilla, Day-Achauer, Remy and Ross. The content of the amendment is not described in the minutes.

Demorest Road Apartment Rezoning

  • 1607-2026 (Z25-055): 11.49 acres on the west side of Demorest Road, 460 feet north of White Spruce Lane (43123), from R, Rural, to L-AR-1, Limited Apartment Residential. Dorans / Wyche moved to refer it to committee; 9-0.

North Hague Avenue Apartment Rezoning

  • 1611-2026 (Z25-068): 15.19 acres on the east side of North Hague Avenue, 879 feet south of Trabue Road (43204), from R, Rural, to L-AR-1. Dorans / Wyche; approved 7-2 (Day-Achauer and Green opposed).

Oak Street Mixed Use Rezoning

  • 1923-2026 (Z26-008): 0.36 acres at the northwest corner of Oak Street and Wilson Avenue (43205) from L-P-1, Limited Private Parking, to CPD, Commercial Planned Development. Dorans / Green; 9-0.
  • 1924-2026 (Council Variance CV26-023): allows ground-floor residential uses in the CPD district at the same site. Staff report accepted into evidence and staff findings adopted as the findings of Council (Dorans / Green, 9-0 each); approved 9-0.

Hilliard Rome Road Commercial Planned Development Rezoning

  • 1927-2026 (Z26-005): 2.0 acres at the southwest corner of Hilliard & Rome Road and Feder Road (43228), from C-4 and CPD to CPD. Dorans / Bankston; 9-0.

South High Street Self-Storage Variance

  • 1928-2026 (CV25-132): allows a self-storage facility with reduced development standards at 3579 S. High St. (43207) in the RAC, Regional Activity Center District (use, building placement and form, facade transparency, on-site parking and landscaping). Staff report accepted (Dorans / Wyche) and findings adopted (Dorans / Bankston), amended as submitted to the Clerk and approved as amended (Dorans / Bankston); all 9-0.

North Nelson Road Residential Variance

  • 1929-2026 (CV26-020): 887 N. Nelson Rd. (43219): single- and multi-unit residential development and a non-accessory parking lot with reduced development standards in the C-4 and R-4 districts. Staff report accepted and findings adopted (Dorans / Bankston), approved (Dorans / Bankston); all 9-0.

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