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Home My WebLink About11/13/2003 - ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS - AGENDA - Regular Meeting s Zoning Board of Appeals Agenda Regular Meeting Thursday,November 13,2003 Roll Call Approval of the Minutes from the July 10,2003 Meeting Appeal.• 2424-A 1113 W Olive St The request would allow the original variance that was granted on June 12, 2003, to be extended for an additional 6 months. The original request was to(1) reduce the required front-yard setback from 15 feet to 10 feet to the front wall of the home and to 4 feet for the roof overhang over the front door; (2)would reduce the required rear yard setback from 15 feet to 9 feet; (3)would allow the attached garage to be located flush with the front wall of the home instead of being setback 10 feet behind the front wall of the building; (4)would reduce the required lot area from 6000 square feet to 3000 square feet, and (5)would reduce the required lot area to floor area ratio from 3 to 1 to 2.9 to 1. The variances are necessary in order to allow a new home to be built on this older, 3000 square foot lot. The petitioner is unable to obtain a permit before the original variance expires, and is requesting a 6 month extension as allowed by the code. Code Sections: 2.10.2(K) Petitioner: Joe Vansant ZoningDistrict NCL Appeal: 2446 1907 Rollingwood Or The variance would reduce the required rear-yard setback along the west lot line from 15 feet to 9 feet, 3 inches in order to allow a bedroom addition to the west side of the house. Code Sections: 4.3(D)(2)(C) Petitioner: Joe and Lori Larson ZoningDistrict RL Appeal: 2447 1003 Remington The variance would reduce the required rear-yard setback along the rear property line from 5 feet to 3 feet in order to allow an 8-foot tall fence. The fence spans a 40-foot length, starting at the southwest corner of the dwelling addressed as 111 E. Elizabeth, ending at the existing garage to the south. Code Sections: 4.8(D)(3)(C) Petitioner: Thomas Laupa ZoningDistrict NCB Appeal: 2448 4301 Westbrooke Ct r_ The variance would reduce the required side-yard setback along the south side lot line from 5 feet to 2 feet in order to allow the already constructed 9.5'x 15.5'storage shed to remain where it is. Code Sections: 4.3(D)(2)(d) Petitioner. Todd Spencer ZoningDistrict RL Appeal: 2449 227 S College Ave The variance would increase the sign allowance for 227 South College Avenue from 120 square feet to 172 square feet in order to allow the existing window graphic letters and logos with blue background to remain. Code Sections: 3.8.7(D)(5)(a) Petitioner: Same ZoningDistrict D Appeal: 2450 1006 Province Rd The variance would increase the allowed square footage for a detached accessory structure from 800 square feet to 1200 square feet in order to allow the owner to build a 1200 sq ft accessory building. Code Sections: 3.5.2(D)(5) Petitioner: Owner ZoningDistrict RL Other Business: r Zoning Board of Appeals Agenda Regular Meeting Thursday, November 13, 2003 Appeal 2424-A Address 1113 W Olive St Petitioner Joe Vansant Zoning District NCL Section 2.10.2(K) Description The request would allow the original variance that was granted on June 12, 2003, to be extended for an additional 6 months. The original request was to (1) reduce the required front-yard setback from 15 feet to 10 feet to the front wall of the home and to 4 feet for the roof overhang over the front door; (2) would reduce the required rear yard setback from 15 feet to 9 feet; (3) would allow the attached garage to be located flush with the front wall of the s-v home instead of being setback 10 feet behind the front wall of the building; (4) would reduce the required lot area from 6000 square feet to 3000 square feet, and (5) would reduce the required lot area to floor area ratio from 3 to 1 to 2.9 to 1. The variances are necessary in order to allow a new home to be built on this older, 3000 square foot lot. The petitioner is unable to obtain a permit before the original variance expires, and is requesting a 6 month extension as allowed by the code. ( Hardship See petitioner's letter. Staff Comments See enclosed minutes from June 12, 2003 ZBA meeting. t Appeal 2446 Address 1907 Rollingwood Dr Petitioner Joe and Lori Larson Zoning District RL Section 4.3(D)(2)(G) Description The variance would reduce the required rear-yard setback along the west lot line from 15 feet to 9 feet, 3 inches in order to allow a bedroom addition to the west side of the house. Hardship See petitioner's letter. Staff Comments The code section dealing with corner lots was changed a couple of years ago because of the large number of variance requests that were necessitated by the previous wording. Under the old code, a variance would Gnot have been required for the proposed addition. 5-0 The bedroom addition that is being planned is rather large, 19'x 26'4". If the board applies a hardship standard, then the size of the proposed addition should be taken into consideration. The addition can probably be reduced in size to either comply with the code or to require less of a setback variance. O e Appeal 2447 Address 1003 Remington Petitioner Thomas Laupa Zoning District NCB Section 4.8(D)(3)(C) Description The variance would reduce the required rear-yard setback along the rear property line from 5 feet to 3 feet in order to allow an 8-foot tall fence. The fence spans a 40-foot length, starting at the southwest corner of the dwelling addressed as 111 E. Elizabeth, ending at the existing garage to the south. Hardship Noise abatement. An IHOP restaurant is located to the west of the property requesting the variance. IHOP operates 24 hours a day. An 80 year old cottonwood was removed in 2003 due to disease. The tree previously helped to reduce the noise from the restaurant property. Staff Comments The location of the property near a 24 hour commercial business could be considered to be a unique situation. G -o w Appeal 2448 Address 4301 Westbrooke Ct Petitioner Todd Spencer Zoning District RL Section 4.3(D)(2)(d) Description The variance would reduce the required side-yard setback along the south side lot line from 5 feet to 2 feet in order to allow the already constructed 9.5' x 15.5' storage shed to remain where it is. Hardship See petitioner's letter. Staff Comments No comments V qr I Appeal 2449 Address 227 S College Ave Petitioner Same Zoning District D Section 3.8.7(D)(5)(a) Description The variance would increase the sign allowance for 227 South College Avenue from 120 square feet to 172 square feet in order to allow the existing window graphic letters and logos with blue background to remain. Hardship See attached letter from the applicant Staff Comments Because of the manner in which the graphics are displayed, the Code requires that the entire blue background color be counted as part of the area of the sign. Therefore, the window signage amounts to 66 square feet, which is 52 square feet over the sign allowance. If the sign graphics are removed from the blue background, then the signs aren't regulated and don't count against the sign allowance since each individual sign is less than 6 square feet. Therefore, the applicant is proposing that combining the lettering on the blue background is better than what the code would allow him to do - leaving the blue background, removing the letters, and re- displaying the letters throughout the window, thereby adding more clutter. w 0 Cd t t W !� i�V Appeal 2450 Address 1006 Province Rd Petitioner Owner Zoning District RL Section 3.5.2(D)(5) Description The variance would increase the allowed square footage for a detached accessory structure from 800 square feet to 1200 square feet in order to allow the owner to build a 1200 sq ft accessory building. Hardship See enclosed letter from the applicant Staff Comments The intent of restricting the size of accessory buildings to 800 square feet is to ensure that, in "urban-type" residential zones, the building is of an appropriate size for the typical size lots within Fort Collins. The larger than one acre lot in question is much larger than the average size residential lot, so the proposed 1200 square foot building is inconsequential when considered in relation to the size of the lot. Therefore, the Board may determine that the proposal promotes the purpose of the standard equally well as would a proposal that complies with the standard since the size of the building relative to the size of the lot is equal to an 800 square foot building on an average size residential size lot. s-0 - co/� „ e Other Business Discuss the federal RLUIPA legislation. h�-