HomeMy WebLinkAbout327 Garfield St - Appeal/Zoning - 02/09/19841 CITY OF FORT COLLINS NOA J Q
ZONING DEPARTMENT
• APPEAL FOR MODIFICATION OF ZONING ORDINANCE TO THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS
Address all communications to Zoning Administrator, Building Inspection
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Petitions must be on file at the office of the Board of Appeals, 2G /9fr
two weeks before meeting date.
Petitioner must be present at meeting.
All variance permits shall be valid for a period of time not to exceed six (6)
months from the time such variance is granted.
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BUILDING INSPECTION
Date February 1. 1984
LEGAL NOTICE
The purpose of this letter is to inform you of a request for a modification
of the Zoning Code of the City of Fort Collins.
The procedure for a person requesting a modification of the Zoning Code
is to make application and appear before the Zoning Board of Appeals. This
Board has been established to hear cases, where by reason of exceptional
situations or conditions, the strict application of the regulation in the Zoning
Code of the City of Fort Collins would result in exceptional practical
difficulties or exceptional undue hardship upon the owner of such property,
provided that the granting of a variance would not result in a substantial
detriment to the public good.
A variance of Code Section(s) 118-43(B), 118-43(C)
has been requested by: Evan Gilmartin
• for the following described property: 327-331 Garfield and 1105 Peterson
The variance would reduce the required lot area from 6000 square feet to 5000
square feet for 327 and 331 Garfield. The variance would also reduce the required
lot area from 6000 square feet to 4000 square feet, and the lot width from 60 feet
to 40 feet for a new duplex in the RM zone.
This item will appear on the Zoning Board of Appeals agenda as Appeal No.
1501.
As an adjacent property owner, your input would be appropriate in the
consideration of the variance request.
The hearing on this appeal will be held at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, 2/9/84 ,
300 West Laporte Avenue. Those interested may appear at this meeting,
or if unable to attend may submit comments in writing.
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact Peter Barnes,
Zoning Administrator at 221-6760.
Peter Barnes, Zoning Administrator
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• February 4, 1983
1102 Peterson
Ft, Collins, CO 80524
Dear Mr. Barnes:
I appreciate your giving us the opportunity to respond to Mr.
Gilmartin's request for a variance of 118-43(B) and 118-43(C). I plan
to come to the meeting, but would like to clarify several points in
writing.
Ilve talked to neighbors who seem to assume that Mr. Gilmartin does
not plan any new construction on his properties. My.interpretation of
!,the notice is -that -he plans to build a -new duplex behind--and-south of
327 and 331 Garfield. If my interpretation is correct I am opposed to
the granting of the variance and I believe others may be as well. If
I am correct I think a clarification should be sent out and the hearing
postponed.
I am opposed to a new duplex in the block for the following reasons.
1. The 1100 block of Peterson already has four dwellings which are
• duplexes or have basement apartments. The two just south of me may be
in violation of code=due to -lot size, but I am not sure.*
2. The on street parking for residents and guests along the block
is already out of hand. Many evenings we cannot find parking in front
of our house. We have called the police twice this fall due to drunk
party goers sideswiping a resident's car as they pushed it by hand, and
due to people driving over our front lawn and across a flower bed, destroying
both it and a tree.
3. Not a weekend goes by that I don't pick up have a dozen beer cans
and whiskey bottled from my front lawn. Irm not opposed either to parties
or students (I teach at CSU), but I believe the density factor is important
and that our block should not be turned into a student ghetto.
4. In the past several years there has -been -'An average of one drug
raid per year on our corner. Maybe thatfs a fact of life in this neighbor-
hood, but again I wouldn't like to increase the frequency.
5. Two of us in the corner area have small children. My son is two.
I believe an additional duplex in this block (total of five) would increase
traffic density to an unacceptable level. I enjoy living in an area with
students, retired, and working people mixed together. And I hope this can
be suitably maintained.
• 6. None of the student rental houses in our block shovel their walks --
ever. We live with this but I don't want to increase it.
Please call me if I am in error in thinking that the variances would
indeed give Mr. Gilmartin permission for new construction. My office phone
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• is 491-6996. I believe Mr. Gilmartin should have obtained these variances
before closing on his purchases of the properties . He could easily have
listed them as contingencies in the contracts. I might mention that I also
own rental property in Ft. Collins so I am not unsympathetic with the problems
of owning property and conforming to city codes. In fact I bought a property
in an RM neighbothood which was subsequently downgraded to RL. I have now
sold it, but at the time my plans for making the place into a duplex were
thwarted as well.
I appreciate very much your time and attention in this matter.
Yours truly,
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Murray W. Na ors
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