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HomeMy WebLinkAbout05/05/2000 - ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS - AGENDA - Regular Meeting ZONING BOARD OOF A APPEALS AGE Regular Meeting , May 11, 2000 F 1, Roll Call Minutes from the April 13, 2000, meeting. 2 Approval of the 3 Appeal : 2294 the required rear yard setbackeast .3 the alley line rom 5 feet to 0 The variance wo uld reduce lot from 5 feet to 2 feet feet, and reduce the required side yard setback from the 3 c and with a new gable le low the existing flat-pitched roof to be removed4$ D)( j(a)ed with a new gable in order to al he garage will remain. Sect so by roof. TheHughes, SOwnting err. 320of tE Mulberry. Ann Hug 4. Appeal : 2295 Specifically, , the t in Th e variance would allow an individual lettr sign dweiser'ndividual letter signs on the north variance would allow the existing 19 foot tall I the other letters will be 10.5 feet and sout h waifs to be removed and replaced with n a 15 feet tall "Budweiser' individual on from letter signs. (Only the `B', `d', and Twill be 15 fee , new signs will result in a 24/o size reduction and a6oPlang Manager, An�heuser tall). The g 1 b Steven D. McDaniel, the current signs. Section 3.81( ), Y Busch. 2351 Busch Drive. r 5 appeal : 2296 Appeals to April 13, 2000, the applicant received a 15 feet to 12 feet in order tovariance from the Zoning allowan addition. ard of On P reduce the front setback requirement from 1 removed since the curb in front of The variance was approed with the condition that a curb cut be installed for the driveway area. The applicant is requesting that this condition eb and is the type of a "Hollywood curb", which is an acceptable drive-over efee r The Board mistakenly ur the home is Y'^' David ak ele, curb found in front of a non-drive-over the hrvert cal curb. Section — none. BY thought the curb was fe Street. Tenant. 1113 Map g, Other Business ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS AGENDA Regular Meeting May 11, 2000 Appeal 2294: --- 320 E. Mulberry --- Petitioner: Ann Hughes, Owner --- Zone: NCB --- 4.8(D)(3)(c) and 4.8(D)(3)(d) --- The variance would reduce the required rear yard setback along the alley from 5 feet to 0 feet, and reduce the required side yard setback from the east lot line from 5 feet to 2 feet in order to allow the existing flat-pitched roof to be removed and replaced with a new gable roof. The existing walls of the garage will remain. �' --- Petitioner's statement of hardship: The existing garage/carriage house is very old. The current flat-roof is in bad shape and leaks a great deal. Rather than replace it with another flat roof, the owner desires to construct a gable roof. Such a roof will match the roof of the house. The existing walls will remain, so there will be no greater deviation from the setbacks than already existing. --- Staff comments: None. t Appeal 2295: --- 2351 Busch Drive --- Petitioner: Steven D. McDaniel, Plant Manager, Anheuser-Busch --- Zone: I --- 3.8.7(I) --- The variance would allow an individual lettr sign to exceed 7 feet in height. Specifically, the variance would allow the existing 19 foot tall "Budweiser" individual letter signs on the north and south walls to be removed and replaced with new 15 feet tall "Budweiser" individual letter signs. (Only the `B', `d', and Twill be 15 feet tall, the other letters will be 10.5 feet tall). The new signs will result in a 24% size reduction and a 64% brightness reduction from the current signs. --- Petitioner's statement of hardship: See petitioner's letter. Also, the intent of the code is being met since the height limit of wall signs is intended to protect the streetscape along urban arterial streets and commerical strips by ensuring that the size of the wall signs is in keeping with the mass and scale of buildings. The location, mass, and scale of the AB building are very unique, and the larger signs will actually enhance the appearance of the large walls by providing necessary articulation and variation. --- Staff comments: Numerous sign code changes were enacted in 1994. One of the changes was to establish a regulation that limited the maximum height of wall signs to 7 feet. (There was no height limit prior to 1994). The new regulation was in response to City Council's concern over the height of a few wall signs on buildings located along College Avenue. The reasoning behind the change was that large signs can overpower the streetscape when they are located on buildings close to the street and near street level. The Sign Code has always had regulations with regards to size and height of freestanding signs along street frontages. However, without some restriction on the size of a wall sign, the benefits gained by regulating freestanding signs could be negated. Large wall signs on buildings close to the street could actually become the focal point of the building, rather than the building architecture and other site elements. In order to ensure that a wall sign is a subordinate feature of the building, rather than a predominant feature, the height restriction was enacted. The intent of the ordinance was to protect and enhance the streetscape along commercial strips. When City Council considered the code amendment, unusually large buildings like Anheuser-Busch were never mentioned as being of concern. Other specific examples along the City's arterial streets were singled out as being a problem. The Board may take into consideration the existence of some extraordinary and exceptional situation unique to a particular property when determining whether or not a variance should be approved. Certainly, the bulk and mass of the A-B building is unique in the city, as well as the 1100 acre size of their site. A 7 foot maximum height wall sign may actually look out of scale on a building as tall and large as the A-B building, and there might not be any detriment to the public good by allowing a larger wall sign. The 1994 sign code changes included a 15 year amortization period for the removal of all ` signs that don't comply with the many new regulations contained in that ordinance. With respect to the existing A-B wall signs, that means that they would have until 2009 to be removed and replaced with conforming signs. A-B is proposing at this time to bring their signs more into compliance with the code by replacing the large, bright letters with letters that are smaller and considerably less bright. They could actually leave their existing signs up for another 9 years, which could be more of a detriment to the public good then would be the installation of smaller, less bright signs. F f Appeal 2296: --- 1113 Maple Street --- Petitioner: David Freele, Tenant --- Zone: NCM --- Section--none --- On April 13, 2000, the applicant received a variance from the Zoning Board of Appeals to reduce the front setback requirement from 15 feet to 12 feet in rder to allow an addition. The variance was approved with the condition that a curb cut be installed for the driveway area. The applicant is requesting that this condition be removed since the curb in front of the home is a "Hollywood curb", which is an acceptable drive-over curb and is the type of curb found in front of most of the other homes on Maple Street. The Board mistakenly thought the curb was a non-drive-over vertical curb. --- Petitioner's statement of hardship: none. --- Staff comments: None. 0 0 0 Other Business: --- Staff will discuss with the Board a proposed code change to Section 2.14.2(H)(8) regarding hardship variances as follows: "... Hardship variances from the terms of Articles 3 through 4, inclusive, may be approved or approved with conditions by the Zoning Board of Appeals where, by reason of exceptional physical conditions or other extraordinary and exceptional situations, unique to such property, including, but not limited to, physical conditions such as exceptional narrowness, shallowness or topography, or physical conditions which hinder the owner's ability to install a solar energy system, the strict application of any regulation enacted herein would result in unusual and exceptional practical difficulties, or exceptional or undue hardship upon the owner of such property, provided that such relief may be granted without substantial detriment to the public good , and provided that ..." May 11,Appeal 2294 111 320 East Mulberry L J. Appeal 1113 Maple r HVCf rear yard sett-,a6 � along the alley from5 ft to 0 ft,3hd redid'the east side y4rd I setback from 5 ft to 2 ft to allow the flat pAch root to be removed and replaced with a row gable(40f, MEW IN This show�the approximate 2 foot setback to the east property line. yy t k r1r . f _� __ ka 't- ':i';rttk ',•F �-i r`,rY f 7 - s;sthe flat �oafed detach ;garage" ►eny them rip - remain � n r. 'J:.ate, s. Looking east along the yam• .f� goat along t ry. The detached garge.rcarriagr,house 'h{' rta`psS Iho it gyyis itsa it 41hWt A D soiba6k � Q.; 1- '7�., I� T i '�4 �. it 111 .atirrson St.Hitt the norm all rtav tma rna��pearts tb f r* E v r }„- ra o Fri' r aka GllKatoa�'sataectrk �+ e r t { 7�'+fir A, t � *�ettl�ck tLooking south towards the rear of the house and the west aide of the garage, c`� 'aMr �JS3 AS4f YID f i4t kC1•F `lly ;`# S F v rl I, "` { R - L44Nlrp narih Ilydm nCriR iThe variance would allow an individual letter sign to exceed 71 I feet in height � - :-r - _ _ .• �'t5'1'Sefi)1tl'�i�t::�)+it*`.tariv�e'.'�;'air�rrtaaa.n�.u�s���nj;ti'jk r�EE1A Existing signage - e i omparisotm showing existing sign on south wall and proposed sigh on south.wall. {;�., I. --•- Rag C . r? r '• , x -_ proposed Signage 1 Looking east" Rand#11 I LrJn-king northeast from Mountain Vista Dr. etting !&scr alorgKowitain Vista Dr. MIff 71 Looking southwest from County Road#52. i Again,looking southeast from County Road#52. - Aill 19 Looking northeast from North County Road#9. Existing 19 foot�tall Budweiser sign on tho south wall., Ezrstin�s[jn .. = - ........ ... Ail tail on the nofth 1. i f�p. '•`KcJ _ r4rm'1' _ rye-' 'ki- �*�.. i ,From the roof looking west. � From the roof looking west ��, s � Property line P �I y t "�'� e � � Looking northwest from the overpass ai Mountain Vista Dr. Looking east towards Interstate 25 �',;. ,�____ and_]-25(Normal Lens} r Looking northwest from the overpass at Mountain Vista Dr.I - and h-25 Telephoto-Lens) Looking South from Busch Dr. ( � Existing 10.5'tall Sutherland's sign on South College Ave. " I home building centers; �1431a�lll �tEI! Looking southwest From County road#52 on the - _---_ east side of 1-25. # a`y Existing 12'tall tall Best Buy sign on South College Ave. h* r s it' The variance would remove the condition that i cuib cut be 'installed for the driveway area. Previous appeal 9 2291 from April 2000 mee ing l feet to property The proposed addition MI line up with the north wall of • east along the front property line and the - of r the existing home and extend to the west • home. currently sits 12'in from the front property l West S'de Of th hoa5e{The propos�addition will extend 20'to the K. ' � . East prop"line. The End i .vest a id IinC up Ith the frort and rear wall of the existing slrucWro.��; _ - Haltynw�ad rs? # - �`�, A. City of Fort Lookingproperty t I II�i Ir�i. �Ayy