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Amending TMC 743, 1103, 1104, 1107 & 1116
Downtown Parking Lots
Zoning & Planning Committee
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Amending Toledo Municipal Code (TMC), Chapters 743, 1103, 1104, 1107 and 1116 relating to the Downtown Parking Lot Review and Improvement Advisory Committee (DPLRIAC) and surface parking lots in the Downtown and Warehouse Districts; and declaring an emergency.
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SUMMARY & BACKGROUND:
In 2019 City Council passed Ordinance 355-19, which amended the Downtown Overlay District regulations to require all downtown surface parking lot owners to follow certain design criteria. The design criteria required lots to be fenced with black wrought iron or black heavy gauge aluminum tube fencing along with brick piers spaced according to parcel size. The text amendment required all surface parking lot owners to comply with the regulation within three (3) years of its passing. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic hit that following year, causing the text amendment to go unenforced.
The proposed Text Amendment to TMC Chapters 743, 1103, 1104, 1107, and 1116 seeks to reform these regulations for surface parking lots in both the Downtown Overlay and Warehouse Urban Neighborhood Overlay Districts and create more specific compliance criteria. A version of these reforms and compliance criteria was heard by the Plan Commission on September 14, 2023, however the amendment was deferred to put some more thought into it. Multiple meetings of the DPLRIAC have been conducted to discuss this proposed amendment since that September 2023 hearing.
Chapter 1103 Overlay Zoning Districts
The most prominent change in the proposed regulations is the merging of the Downtown Overlay and Warehouse Urban Neighborhood Overlay (UNO) surface parking lot design criteria. In the interest of removing overlap, the Toledo Warehouse District Architecture Review Committee (TWDARC) has agreed to give up its authority to review surface parking lots in the Warehouse UNO District to the Downtown Parking L...
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