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The Clerk Reports
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Granting a waiver of Toledo Municipal Code Section 1107.0203 Surface Parking Lot Ban Districts to allow an existing one-level surface parking lot to be increased in size at 15, 25, 31, 39 South Ontario Street and 14 South Erie Street, in the City of Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio; and declaring an emergency.
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SUMMARY & BACKGROUND:
The former Commerce Paper Building at 15 S. Ontario Street is being renovated into a mixed-use project with approx. 50 residential units and a ground-floor retail tenant, to be known as the Overmyer Lofts. The existing parking lot to the east is proposed to be expanded to include the footprint of the to-be-demolished garage addition to the south of the building and offer a total of 72 parking spaces, as well as required landscaping and decorative fencing. The proposed parking lot has been reviewed and approved by the Plan Commission as SPR-18-22, subject to the approval of a waiver of the Warehouse District Surface Parking Lot Ban.
Waiving of this zoning section will allow the project to proceed.
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NOW, THEREFORE, Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Toledo:
SECTION 1. That TMC Section 1107.0203, Surface Parking Lot Ban Districts, which prohibits the expansion of existing one-level surface parking lots within the Warehouse District, be waived at 15, 25, 31, and 39 S. Ontario Street and 14 S Erie Street for the expansion of a parking lot.
SECTION 2. That the waiver of the above Zoning Code section be limited to 15, 25, 31, and 39 S. Ontario Street and 14 S Erie Street with the overall project property more fully described as follows:
Parcel 1:
That part of Lots numbers 332 and 333 in PORT LAWRENCE DIVISION, of the City of Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, in accordance with plat recorded in Volume 16 of Plats, page 47, and of the abandoned bed of the Miami and Erie Canal, bounded and described as follows: Commencing at the intersection of the northeasterly line of said Lot number...
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