Label
Zoning & Planning Committee
Title
Amending Toledo Municipal Code (TMC), Part Eleven, Subsection 1106.0301 "Multiple Buildings on a Lot - Applicability", adding the CM and CD zoning district; and declaring an emergency.
Summary
SUMMARY & BACKGROUND:
The request is a study of the allowed number of principal buildings on a lot in the CD-Downtown Commercial and CM-Mixed Commercial-Residential Zoning Districts. This study examines the impacts and implications of allowing multiple buildings on a lot in these urban Commercial Districts, as well whether or not fellow Ohio jurisdictions permit multiple buildings on a lot in urban Commercial Districts.
There are multiple reasons why this study was requested by Plan Commission staff. The residential density standards for CD-Downtown Commercial and CM-Mixed Commercial-Residential were studied in 2020, and results indicated that residential density for these Districts as defined in the Toledo Municipal Code (TMC) were substantially different from the common urban residential density standards found in other major cities in Ohio. The density requirements in TMC?1106.0102 - Commercial Districts were consequentially amended to allow more dwelling units on a lot in both the CD-Downtown Commercial and CM-Mixed Commercial-Residential by Ord. 287-20 on 08/11/2020. During this review, staff noticed other disparities between development standards in these districts, including that several other jurisdictions allow multiple buildings on a lot in urban Zoning Districts, and noted this for future review.
Another purpose for this study is to determine whether or not the Planned Unit Development (PUD) standards as outlined in TMC?1103.1000 are in character with the PUD standards of other Midwestern cities, especially in an urban setting. TMC?1103.1007(C) states that no more than forty percent (40%) of gross site acreage shall be devoted to coverage by buildings, structures, street pavement, driveway, and parking ...
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