Board of Adjustment Documents 1990

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I'll go ahead and take the building permit downstairs tomorrow so you can call billing for it. OK. Thank you. The second request for variance, the applicant is Steven F. Elliott. His he here? (no response). OK. Mr. Chairman, Members of the board, the Applicant Steve Elliot is requesting approximately a six foot front yard setback to allow a nineteen foot front setback from his home. Rather than the required 25 foot setback. The applicant is requesting the setback variance to construct a new single family home approximately at approximately 380 County Road. The subject property is currently vacant. single Family homes to the north, south, and west zoned residential medium density. To the east is a Burlington Northern Railroad runway. The subject property is in the Shrider subdivision and is 7500 sq. feet in the area. Proposed are of the single family home and detached garage is approx. 1320 sq. feet resulting in a lot coverage of 16% of the gross lot area. Maximum lot coverage for that zone district is 35%. Staff has reviewed the subdivision file, and for possible outstounding obligations required under the subdivision? no subdivision grant was found. Staff does recommend approval of the front setback variance. That's aliI have. We had talked earlier about the actual setback. There is just a question on this. From the sight plan it appears that the actual front setback from the house is 21 ft instead of 19 ft. Is that correct? There was some confusion about that because the front porch when I drew that plan, I wasn't sure if that front porch counted as that setback or not. So I kind of modified where I placed the house on there. And I requested a 6 ft. setback, but probably 4ft. would accomodate it if the porch is excluded. From reading the applicants letter, I went with the , gave the benefit to the applicant in going with what they requested is a six foot front yard setback even though it's somewhat contrary to the one we would expect based upon a 21 ft. existing yard and setback. If that is 21 ft, would the 4 ft. come off of that so that they would be requesting a 7ft. front setback if the porch is raised? Is that actually what is being requested? The requirement is 25 ft. so the --- if the porch is covered then it would be subject to the setback requirement. Covered porch? So it would be actually 5ft. setback. There is a 4ft. projection on that front porch. Thanks. They are asking for an 8 ft. variance then? Eight Foot variance. to allow 17ft front setback rather then the required. Also we believe that the garage requires a - is an unattached building and setback requirement is different. On an unattached accessory structure in an RM zone district the front setback requirement is 35ft. I wasn't aware of that. The setback requirement on the detached part of the garage when I made that application but I would like to include it at this time if I can. To make so it can be the same setback as the principal part of the house not the porch but the main part of the house. So you would be requesting that 14 ft. variance on the garage? Or a 21 ft. setback? You are Steve Elliott? Yes. Would you like to say something in the presentation? AliI would like to mention and I think I did mention it my letter to the board, is that there is some very large mature trees on the property which is the reason I'm requesting the setback. The two main ones of my concern are two large Spruce Trees that are situated appox. in the middle of the lot, and I would like to include those. I don't want to have to remove them. So I wanted to situate the house