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r <br />2. The property is located in the LR - 1B, One Family Lakeshore residential <br />district, which requires a minimum lot area of 1 acre. The applicant’s <br />property is 0.427 acres in size. <br />3. The Plaiming Commission reviewed this application at a public hearing <br />held on June 21, 2004 and recommended approval of the variances based <br />on the following findings; <br />a. No new hardcover is proposed since the covered entry will be <br />constructed over the front stoop, which already counts as hardcover. <br />b. The applicant has chosen to remodel over existing footprints where the <br />existing hardcover is set at 39.25%. <br />c. No negative visual impacts result in the 4 ’ building-to-building <br />setback that will result between the covered entry and the detached <br />garage. <br />d. The layout of the house doesn’t allow the entry to be moved in order to <br />meet the 10’ building-to-building setback. <br />4. The City Council has considered this application including the findings <br />and recommendation of the Planning Commission, reports by City staff, <br />comments by the applicants and the public, and the effect of the proposed <br />variance on the health, safety and welfare of the community. <br />5. The City Council finds that the conditions existing on this property arc <br />peculiar to it and do not apply generally to other property in this zoning <br />district; that granting the variance would not adversely affect traffic <br />conditions, light, air nor pose a fire hazard or other danger to neighboring <br />property; would not merely serve as a convenience to the applicants, but is <br />necessary to alleviate a demonstrable hardship or difficulty; is necessary to <br />preserve a substantial property ri^t of the applicants; and would be in <br />keeping with the spirit and intent of the Zoning Code and Comprehensive <br />Plan of the City. <br />ti <br />Page 2 of 5