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HomeMy WebLinkAbout03/09/1995 - ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS - AGENDA - Regular Meeting ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS MARCH 9, 1995 1 . Roll call. 2. Appeal 2128. The variance would reduce the required street side setback from the lot line along Loomis Avenue from 15 feet to 7 feet in order to allow an addition to be constructed to the rear of the existing home. The addition will line up with the existing home which is already at a 7 foot setback. The addition will be an identical home that will be moved onto the lot, bringing the total floor area to 1720 square feet. Section 29-167(5) by Susan Rogers, 629 W. Mountain Avenue. 3 . Appeal 2129. The variance would reduce the required parking lot landscape setback distance along the alley from 5 ' to 21811 at one point and 3 '9" at another. (The majority of the setback distance along the alley meets or exceeds the 5 ' requirement) . The variance is needed in order to allow the owner to reconfigure the parking lot in order to save two large, mature trees. The number of parking stalls is not changing. Section 29-493 ( 1) by John Snyder, 1008 - 1010 Remington Street. 4 . Other Business. ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS AGENDA Regular Meeting March 9, 1995 Appeal 2128 --- 629 W. Mountain Avenue --- Petitioner: Susan Rogers, owner. --- Zone: NCM Zone --- Section 29-167 (5) --- The variance would reduce the required street side setback from the lot line along Loomis Avenue from 15 feet to 7 feet in order to allow an addition to be constructed to the rear of the existing home. The addition will line up with the existing home which is already at a 7 foot setback. The addition will be an identical home that will be moved onto the lot, bringing the total floor area to 1720 square feet. --- Petitioner's statement of hardship: The existing home is on an older platted lot, and is already nonconforming. The existing home has received designation as a historic landmark, but it is quite small. The home that is proposed to be moved is a mirror image of the existing house, and should allow the property to maintain its historic designation. The property line is 20 feet behind the curb, so the addition will be 27 feet from the street. If this were in a newer subdivision, the addition would be only 24 feet from the street without the need for a variance. --- Staff comments: This is similar to other variances that the Board has considered in the older part of town where the property line is a considerable distance from the street and the existing home already has a nonconforming setback. Appeal 2129 --- 1008 - 1010 Remington Street --- Petitioner: John Snyder, owner. --- Zone: NCB Zone --- Section 29-493 ( 1 ) --- The variance would reduce the required parking lot landscape setback distance along the alley from 5 ' to 2 ' 8" at one point and 3 ' 9" at another. (The majority of the setback distance along the alley meets or exceeds the 5 ' requirement) . The variance is needed in order to allow the owner to reconfigure the parking lot in order to save two large, mature trees. The -� number of parking stalls is not changing. --- Petitioner ' s statement of hardship: The owner is constructing two 4-plexes on this lot. The original layout called for the removal of two large, eighty year old trees. The owner has attempted to reconfigure the parking lot in order to keep the trees, however there is no way of laying it out that will work without the need of a variance. Because the existing trees can ' t be shifted to the west, no additional room can be made available to widen the two affected strips along the alley. Landscaping will still be provided in the reduced setback areas in their originally proposed amounts. --- Staff comments: The Board has considered large, mature trees to present a topographical hardship in the past. Usually, the desire to preserve such trees has been a factor in cases regarding building setback variances. This appeal is somewhat different in that the desire to preserve the trees is a factor in a landscape setback variance request.