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Board of Adjustment Meeting Minutes April 19, 2023 Page 6 of 11 Valley General Development Plan, which was last amended in 2015. The original home was built in 1992 and was destroyed in the 2021 Marshall Fire. The applicant is proposing a new one-story ranch home to replace the previous two-story home destroyed in the Marshall Fire. The original 1992 house is shown on the left and the proposed house is shown on the right. The request before the Board of Adjustment is to allow a 145 square -foot portion of the house on the north to encroach 5.8 ft. into the street side setback, resulting in a variable 12.3 ft. to 16.78 ft. street side setback along the entire northern portion of the home. The applicants are also requesting a Fire Recovery variance for a 10% interior side setback encroachment on the southern property line, which is reviewed administratively. The Board is only reviewing the northern street side setback encroachment at this hearing. She concludes her presentation by reviewing the six -variance criteria. The following indicates staff's analysis of each criteria: Criteria 1 - Criterion Met • Staff finds the property has unusual lot lengths for a corner lot. The front lot length is 46 ft. and the rear lot length is about 69 ft. While the roughly 70 ft. width at the mid -point of the property is typical for the neighborhood, the narrowness along the front portion of the lot is unique. Criteria 2 - Criterion Met • The combination of lot lengths on 956 Eldorado creates a building envelope that is more constrained than other corner lots in the neighborhood. Although other corner lots have more constrained individual lot lines, the front, rear, and internal side lot lines at 956 Eldorado are all below average. No other corner lots have this combination of below -average lot line lengths. Criteria 3 - Criterion Met Staff finds that the combination of the below average lot lines create a physical circumstance that cannot reasonably be developed. The mid - property width of 70 ft. creates a buildable width of about 47 ft. (70 ft. minus the 18 ft. street side and 5 ft. side setbacks). Generally, one-story ranch homes have a larger footprint compared to a two-story home, which requires a greater buildable width. The property therefore cannot be reasonably developed to have a one-story home without an encroachment into one or more setbacks. Criteria 4 - Criterion Met