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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZoning Board Of Appeals - Minutes - 11/20/1984ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS November 20, 1984 Special Meeting - 8:30 a.m. A special meeting of the Zoning Board of Appeals was held on Tuesday, November 20, 1984 at 8:30 a.m. in the Council Chambers of the City of Fort Collins City Hall. Roll call was answered by Boardmembers: Thede; Murphy; Szopinski. Boardmembers Walker, Johnson, Dodder and Lieser were not present. Staff Members Present: Barnes, Zeigler, Frazier Appeal #1575. Appeal #1576. Appeal #1577. Section 118-43(B), 118-43(C) by Bob Black, 1001 Sycamore, 407 Park St., 413 Park St. - Approved "---The variance would reduce the required lot area from 6000 square feet to 5750 square feet and reduce the required lot width from 60 feet to 50 feet for a new duplex in the RM zone. ---Hardship pleaded: The lot is an older lot, platted with less lot area and width than todays code requires. Without a variance, nothing can be built. The petitioners intent is to develop the units as much needed low income housing. ---Staff recommendation; Approval. The lot area reduction is not too great and low-income units are needed in the City._ This duplex would be part of a 3 duplex project on this vacant land.. (see appeals #1576 and #1577)." There were no notices or letters returned. Appeals #1575, 1576, and 1577 were considered at the same time for ease of discussion purposes. Zoning Administrator Peter Barnes explained the problem with the November meeting regarding appeals 91575, 1576, 1577. Engineering assigned the address 1000 Sycamore to one of the vacant lots. It should have been 1001 Sycamore. On appeal #1577, the notices were typed incorrectly, and stated that the address of the job was 713 Ponderosa which is actually the peti- tioners home address. Appeal #1577's job address is 413 Park St. Because of these errors, new notices were sent out the morning of November 13. with the corrected information on them. -2- November 20, 1984 Petitioner Bob Black informed the Board of his intentions. He said there are already eight duplexes on the street. He said that basically, the reason that he is building a two story unit is that he will be able to give each unit a nice size yard rather than a lot of asphalt. Royce Clark, owner of the property at 1008 Sycamore, spoke against the variance. His first question was regarding the way the lot area had been figured. Zoning Administrator Peter Barnes showed Mr. Clark the plot plans and varified the figure of 5750 square feet per lot. Mr. Clark was also concerned about a parking problem occurring. Zoning Administrator Peter Barnes pointed out the parking spaces that would be available and meet code. Mr. Clarke felt that his confusion might be cleared up if he could look at plans for the three duplexes. He told the Board that the notices that he had received used the addresses of 407 Park St. and 413 Park St. He had driven by these addresses this morning and at present there are single family dwelling on the lots given the addresses 407 Park St. and 413 Park St.. He asked if they were going to demolish the present houses. Zoning Administrator Peter Barnes stated that there must be some confusion because Engineering had assigned the vacant lots the addresses of 407 Park St. and 413 Park St.. Mr. Clark reiterated the fact that as of this morning there are homes addressed 407 Park St. and 413 Park St. Zoning Administrator Peter Barnes felt it was strange that the people at these addresses hadn't called to question the variances. Mr. Clark looked at the plans for the duplexes and said that he no longer had any objections to the variances after seeing the project. He felt Mr. Black has a good project and he does not want to delay it. City Attorney Ken Frzaier felt that there is not a fatal flaw in the notices. He feels that the City has met the requirements for notifying property owners adjacent to subject properties. Boardmember Thede made a motion to approve Appeal #1575 with the stipula- tion that the correct addresses be inserted. The motion was seconded by Boardmember Szopinski. Yeas: Szopinski, Murphy, Thede. Boardmember Thede made a motion to approve appeal #1576 with the stipula- tion that the correct addresses be inserted. The motion was seconded by Boardmember Murphy. Yeas: Szopinski, Murphy, Thede. Boardmember Thede made a motion to approve appeal #1577 with the stipula- tion that the correct addresses be inserted. The motion was seconded by Boardmember Szopinski. Yeas: Szopinski, Murphy, Thede. -3- November 20, 1984 The corrected addresses are as follows: Appeal #1576 - 407 Park St. should read 425 Park St. Appeal #1577 - 413 Park St. should read 421 Park St. The meeting was adjourned. Chairman Secretary