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February 20, 2008 Agenda
6:30 Call to Order, Welcome, Roll Call
1. Approval of Minutes - Doreen Uhas -Sauer Vote
2. Treasurer’s Report - Seth Golding Information

Reports
1. Columbus Police Report – Officer Carl Johnson Information
2. City of Columbus Neighborhood Liaison - Steve Soble Information
3. Campus Partners - Steve Sterrett Vote

Public Comments & Announcements (3 minutes allowed per speaker)
1. Chris Gawronski, Chair, Clintonville Area Commission - CAC BZA Appeal

Block Party Permit Request
1. Rick Freitag – Chittenden Ave, May 18, 2008 - 6:00am – 6:30pm

Committee Highlight Reports
1. Zoning Committee – Ron Hupman, Chair Vote
2. Planning Committee (Green Plan Update) – Elan Daniel Vote
3. Community Relations Committee - Richard Allen, Chair Information
4. Code & Environment Committee - Tom Wildman, Chair Information
5. Governance Committee Report - David Hegley, Chair Information
- First readings for proposed bylaw changes (see committee report)

Special Report
1. Good Neighbor Agreement – Sloopys (formerly Mianis) Information
2.
Adjournment - Next Meeting – March 19, 2008: 2231 N. High St Rm 100

Zoning Committee Motion Details
1259 N. 5th St. Applicant: City of Columbus Property is in poor condition. City has not been able to sell and cost to repair is too high. Parcel would be available for redevelopment Recommendation is for disapproval because there was not a representative of Weinland Park at the meeting.
Governance Committee First Reading Details
Proposed Language for bylaw changes voted on by the Committee:
􀂾 Article I Section 7
Any election required in these By Laws shall be conducted by written ballot, which shall be tallied immediately and the Recording Secretary shall read each commissioner’s name and how they voted aloud into the meetings minutes. who will announce the results to the Commission. A voice vote may be held if an election is uncontested.
􀂾 Article II, Section 4 Paragraph A
If a vacancy occurs in a district seat on the Commission because of resignation, death, disqualification, or other means, the Corresponding Secretary shall give public notice of the vacancy at least thirty (30) days before the date on which the Commission will vote to recommend a candidate to fill the vacancy.
After providing an opportunity for persons interested in filling the vacancy to indicate their interest to the Commission, the Commission shall vote according to article I section 7 by individual, private ballots to select a candidate to fill the vacancy until the next Annual Meeting.
􀂾 Article IV, Section 2 Paragraph E
The election of officers shall be conducted by written ballot, which shall be tallied immediately by two commissioners not running for an officer position. The two commissioners will be chosen by random chance at the start of the meeting. One of the vote counters will read aloud each commissioner’s name and how they voted an official tally of votes into the official record kept by the Recording Secretary. Official tally of votes will include name of Commissioner and the number of votes they
received. A voice vote may be held if there are no contested offices.
􀂄 Result: The first 3 articles were related to bring the Commission voting requirements into compliance with City of Columbus interpretation of the Ohio Sunshine laws. Therefore all three were voted on as a single block.
􀂾 Article VI, Section 8
There shall be a Board of Elections, consisting of five persons appointed by the President AT THE DECEMBER MEETING PRIOR TO 180 days before the NEXT election with the approval of the Commission, none of whom shall be connected in any way with a candidate for the Commission. The Board shall perform all duties set forth in the Election Rules.
􀂾 Article II Section 2 Paragraph B & C
b. A term of office for an organization commissioner shall be one two years.
c. A term of office for a group commissioner shall be one two years.
Key: Bold text is new, crossed out text will be removed.
These by law revisions will be brought forward to the full Commission for their first reading and voted on at the March meeting.

Block Party Permit Details
Sunday, May 18th - Strongman contest on Chittenden Ave in front of Eddie George’s Grill. This would require closing the street from approximately 6-7:00 a.m. to approximately 6:30 p.m. The actual contest would start around 12:00 noon be completed by 4:00 – 5:00 in the afternoon. The applicant will need the remaining time for break down, loading and general clean up of the area.

6:30 Call to Order, Welcome, Roll Call

1. Approval of Minutes - Doreen Uhas -Sauer Vote
2. Treasurer’s Report - Seth Golding Information

Reports

1. Columbus Police Report – Officer Carl Johnson Information
2. City of Columbus Code Enforcement – Deborah VanDyke Information
3. City of Columbus Neighborhood Liaison - Steve Soble Information
4. Campus Partners - Steve Sterrett Information

Public Comments & Announcements (3 minutes allowed per speaker)

1.

Block Party Permit Request

1. Rick Freitag – Chittenden Ave, May 18, 2008 - 6:00am – 6:30pm

Committee Highlight Reports

1. Zoning Committee – Ron Hupman, Chair Vote
2. Planning Committee (Green Plan Update) – Elan Daniel Vote
3. Community Relations Committee - Richard Allen, Chair Information
4. Code & Environment Committee - Tom Wildman, Chair Information
5. Governance Committee Report - David Hegley, Chair Information
- First readings for proposed bylaw changes (see committee report)

Special Report

1. Good Neighbor Agreement – Sloopys (formerly Mianis) Information

January 16, 2008 Agenda
6:30 Call to Order, Welcome, Roll Call
1. Approval of Minutes - Doreen Uhas -Sauer Vote
2. Treasurer’s Report - Seth Golding Information

Reports
1. Columbus Police Report – Officer Carl Johnson Information
2. City of Columbus Code Enforcement – Deborah VanDyke Information
3. City of Columbus Neighborhood Liaison - Steve Soble Information
4. Campus Partners - Steve Sterrett Information

Public Comments & Announcements (3 minutes allowed per speaker)
1.

Committee Highlight Reports
1. Zoning Committee – Ron Hupman, Chair Vote
2. Planning Committee (Green Plan Update) – Elan Daniel Vote
3. Community Relations Committee - Richard Allen, Chair Information
4. Code & Environment Committee - Tom Wildman, Chair Information
5. Governance Committee Report - David Hegley, Chair Information

Special Report
1. City Attorney clarification on Good Neighbor Agreements Information
Adjournment - Next Meeting – February 20, 2008: 2231 N. High St Rm 100

Zoning Committee Motion Details
37-35 W. Oakland Ave . Applicant: Susan Martin, attorney for the Pavey family trust
Motion: To recommend approval of the variances required to construct a 25 space parking lot in accordance with a site plan dated January 4, 2008 at the rear of 35-37 W. Oakland that would serve residential tenants of properties owned by various Pavey family interests
The committee’s overriding concern was the precedent that approval of this project would set considering the position that the commission has traditionally taken on parking lots beyond Wall and Pearl alleys. Additionally, the committee felt there were other issues that would be difficult to resolve, including:
Restricting use to residents and preventing use by commercial patrons.
Since this lot would serve numerous Pavey properties, the problems that would arise if at some later time properties were sold individually.
Parking can’t continue to be created to accommodate density of residents; there must be control of density
The committee unanimously recommends disapproval.

Planning Committee Motion Details
Proposed Language for UCO - The Planning Committee voted unanimously for the following language to be considered for inclusion in the updated Urban Commercial Overlay.
The University Area Commission offers the following recommendation in regard to proposed changes to the Urban Commercial Overlay:
Recognizing that there are often multiple uses of widely varying intensity within a building, percentage reductions to required parking based on ranges of square feet should be applied to the area of a particular use rather than to the area of a building.
2,001-10,000 sq. ft: 50% reduction in required parking except for restaurant/ bar and assembly (including churches) uses where the reduction shall be 25% Greater than 10,000 sq.ft: Parking shall be provided as required by Chapter 3342 but shall not exceed those requirements.

Recommended for the University Area if not elsewhere – The parking provided for any use category shall not exceed the parking required by Chapter 3342.

In addition, it is strongly recommended that all administrative parking waivers be eliminated and that requests for any parking reductions, without regard to magnitude, be handled through the standard variance processes. Construction of outdoor seating areas, even when a parking variance is not required, should require a special permit issued by the Board of Zoning adjustment that will assure a public review process that will include recommendations from the cognizant area commission/civic association.