TONIGHT! PLEASE READ / PLEASE SHARE / PLEASE ATTEND!!! We need as many OTE residents and fans of OTE as possible to go to the BZA meeting. Where? 757 Carolyn Ave. just east of I-71 between Oakland Park and Cooke Rd. When? 6 Oclock. Thanks again for your time! Please Please Please attend this meeting. For those catching up here is a recap: The general feeling about this thing is it is being pushed through rather quickly regardless of how our community feels about it. Its an entirely inappropriate structure. A self proclaimed (community within a community.) Many of us in the neighborhood feel it is being jammed down our throats. The major points: -Too dense -high price points 1,200 to 1,700 for one or two bedroom. -parking issues -the buildings are maxed out to the perimeters of the alleys and streets -the building faces inward away from our community -the green space is in the inside not the outside -the garages (which are an additional cost) face the alleys (which can be difficult to navigate as they are.) -the structure, tho they claim to be following proper guidelines with the materials looks completely out of place in our neighborhood. The facade does not even look slightly Victorian. -Today at 6 Oclock at the BZA meeting at 757 Carolyn Ave. we expect these plans to go through (unfortunately). At the last BZA hearing February 25th, the board told the developers that they were asking for too many variances. The developers decided to table the discussion till another meeting (thats tomorrow). There was a lot of community push-back and over 50 people showed up against the current development at the last BZA meeting. We expect them to drop some inconsequential variances and the plan to go through (again, unfortunately). The BZA pretty much told them that that is what they would need to do. Previously at the NEAC meeting, despite much push back from OTE residents and business owners, Head of Chair Kathleen Bailey pushed the plan through with her tie breaking vote as it was 5 - 5 - 2 (february 13th). Typically a conversation would be tabled at this point with this much concern from the neighborhood. -As of now, we do not feel that the developers of 122 Parsons are negotiating in good faith with the neighborhood as they have not met with our neighborhood association membership or showed any consideration toward compliance with the Olde Towne Quarter’s Economic Strategy established in 2010 by the City of Columbus. The business quarter is an integral part of our current success as a neighborhood and will continue to be an anchor for our neighborhood in the future. ODOT plans are getting pushed forward which will eliminate two of our anchoring businesses and historical structures E.T. Paul and The Carabar. It is devastating enough to lose these two local anchoring businesses in our business quarter. For this developer to try and further overpopulate that area w/o helping replace the retail spaces adversely effects our quality of life in Olde Towne. -Here are our tax dollars at work. The developers have chosen to ignore these plans below. -Here is a link to the 2005 Near east area Plan: columbus.gov/uploadedFiles/Columbus/Departments/Development/Planning_Division/Documents_Library/NearEastAreaPlan.pdf -Here is the link to the 2010 amendment – Olde Towne Quarter EconomicDevelopment Strategy: columbus.gov/uploadedFiles/Columbus/Departments/Development/Planning_Division/Documents_Library/OTQ%20EDS%20FINAL%209-21-10.pdf Here is a time line: -Columbus Underground wrote this:columbusunderground/forty-unit-apartment-development-proposed-for-old-towne-east-bw1 -The site hearing was february 8th. -After the NEAC meeting february 13th this was written by the free press: columbusfreepress/article/east-side-development-proposal-leads-raucous-meeting-lingering-questions At this meeting, the presenter and one of the investors Michael Woods, would not so much as answer questions and concerns we had as OTE residents and business owners. Not only would he not answer questions but he would not acknowledge or dignify us by even looking at us. Instead he sat smug and stared straight ahead. We all knew something was terribly wrong. This is where we first learned that this was a predatory developer who had no knowledge or interest in our community or what we felt to be important here in OTE or our business district. To add insult to injury, one of the developers LLCs is called Dunder Mifflin LTD (???). So, not only do we feel this development is being rammed down our throats but they are having fun doing it. We were then further infuriated by Head Chair Kathleen Bailey who passed it through despite our concerns. -We made this Online petition: thepetitionsite/967/738/583/rework-122-parsons-building-for-olde-towne-economic-development/ -We created this page: https://facebook/preserveoldetowneeast?ref=hl -We made these fliers and handed out 1,000 in the neighborhood: (Download below) -Free Press wrote this article after the BZA meeting February 28th: columbusfreepress/article/old-town-residents-organize-zoning-meeting-temporarily-derail-development-plan -Columbus dispatch wrote this article after the BZA February 28th: dispatch/content/stories/local/2014/02/27/zoning-board-tables-apartment-proposal.html -OTENA held a general meeting on March 22nd specifically to address the 122 development. The vote was 33 said YES they oppose the current development 11 no they dont oppose it - and 2 were undecided. So, 3 to 1. This neighborhood does not want this development. We would rather wait for the right thing. -Then we made this invite for an artful protest: https://facebook/events/1446821538887802/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular The Free Press covered it: columbusfreepress/article/olde-towne-east-residents-hold-rally-against-parsons-avenue-development-project Thanks again, Bobby Silver Silver Family Restaurants Yellow Brick Pizza Like · · 11 minutes ago near Columbus, OH ·
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:37:16 +0000
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