72-80 Amend 1103.02 - Zoning - Repeal 54-79 parking lot on Ridgewood

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ORDINANCE NO. 72-80 BY: Brown, Chinnock, Gallagher, Graham, McBride, Salmon, Wendlin AN ORDINANCE to amend Section 1103.02 of the Zoning Code of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood by changing and revising the Zoning Map with respect to certain property as hereinafter set forth and described and repealing Ordinance No. 54-79. WHEREAS, on July 16, 1979 Council adopted Ordinance No. 54-79 which reclassified and chart§ed the use classification of the municipal parking lot located on Ridgewood Avenue north of Madison Avenue from R3 (two family) to BR (business residential) as part of an overall plan to construct much needed low-cost housing for the elderly in the Madison-Ridgewood area and which use is in keeping with the present use of said parking lot, and WHEREAS, the procedures followed with respect to notice to surrounding property owners and in the p~Dlication of the notice of public hearing have given rise tosome question as to the validity of Ordinance No. 54-79, and WHEREAS, this Council, while not wishing nor intending to admit to irregularities in the adoption of Ordinance No. 54-79, it does desire to affirm and finalize the rezoning of the aforementioned municipal parking lot so that the aforementioned housing project for the elderly may proceed free and clear from any question as to the validity of the rezoning of the parking lot; now, therefore, OHIO: BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF Section 1. That Section 1103.02 of the Zoning Code of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood be and the same is hereby amended by changing and revising the Zoning Map to the extent that the property described as follows: Situated in the City of Lakewood, County of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio and known as being part of Original Rockport Township Section 21, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at the southeasterly corner of Sublet No. 64 which point is 131.85 feet north of the northerly line of Madison Avenue which is the principal place of beginning, thence north along the westerly line of Ridgewood Avenue, a distance of about 120 feet to point which is the northeasterly corner of Sublet No. 66, thence westerly along the Northerly line of said sublet a distance of about 144.08 feet to a ooint, thence southerly a distance of about 120 feet to the southwesterly corner of Sublet 64, thence easterly along the southerly line 6f said sublet a distance of about 144.20 feet to a point which is the principal place of beginning, be the same more or less, but subject to all legal highways. be and the same is hereby reclassified and changed from use classification R3 (two family) to use classification BR (business residential). Section 2. The Planning Director is hereby authorized and directed to make the reclassification change in the Zoning Map of the City of Lakewood, Ohio so as to reflect the amendment designated in Section 1 of this Ordinance. Section 3. It is found and deten~ined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the passage of this ordinance were adopted in an open ~metin§ of this Council, and that all such deliberations of~this~ Council and of any of its committees that resulted in such formal action, were in meetings open to the public, in compliance v~ith all legal requirements including Section 121.22 of the Ohio Revised Code