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 Columbus
 Code of Ordinances
 Title 33. ZONING CODE
 Chapter 3372. PLANNING OVERLAY

  § 3372.803. Applicability and extent.  

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  • The standards and requirements of the RCO apply as follows:

    A.

    This overlay applies to retail, restaurant, office or medical office uses.

    B.

    The placement, construction, or reconstruction of a principal building is subject to all standards and requirements of this overlay, except as applied to nonconforming buildings as provided in Section 3391.01 and except as applied to routine maintenance and in-kind replacement of materials. Facade renovations or exterior renovations are not considered reconstruction of a principal building.

    C.

    The expansion of a building's gross floor area by more than 50 percent is subject to all provisions herein.

    D.

    The construction or installation of a new parking lot, graphic, exterior lighting, fence or other accessory structure is subject to any provisions herein. Overlay standards do not apply to the re-striping or reconfiguration of existing parking lots.

    E.

    The Graphics Commission may consider a variance request to any graphics standard or graphics requirement of this overlay. Nonconforming graphics and routine maintenance and in-kind replacement of materials are exempt from the graphics standards and requirements of this overlay and are subject to Section 3381.08.

    F.

    The standards contained in the overlay are in addition to the regulations of the underlying zoning districts and the general requirements contained in the Columbus Zoning Code. Where a specific overlay standard is imposed, it is to be followed in lieu of a general provision of the Zoning Code: where the overlay does not address a required standard and it is otherwise contained in the Zoning Code, the Zoning Code standard shall be followed. Except as conditioned by City Council, the Board of Zoning Adjustment or Graphics Commission, the provisions of this overlay are deemed more restrictive.

    G.

    In architectural review commission districts properties are subject to C.C. Sections 3372.804, 3372.807, 3372.808 and 3372.809, and are not subject to Sections 3372.806. Any standard or requirement of this overlay may be modified or waived by an architectural review commission for structures within that Architectural Review Commission's given boundary.

(Ord. 2431-03 § 13; Ord. 0854-2008 § 31; Ord. No. 0544-2009, § 17, 6-22-2009)