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Date Applicalion Received: 6-18-03 <br />Date Application ConiMercd at Complete: 7-9-03 <br />60-Day Review Period Fipirea: 9-7-03 <br />To:Chair Smith and Planning Commissioners <br />Ron Moorse, City Administrator <br />From: <br />Date: <br />Subject: <br />Mike GafTron, Planning Director <br />July 16,2003 <br />#03-2916 Phillip Smith, 2600 West Lafayette Road - Variances <br />- Public Hearing <br />Zoning District: <br />Lot Area: <br />LR-IB Single Family Lakeshore Residential, 1-acre min. <br />0.71 acre (30,720 s.f.) <br />Application Summary: Applicant requests a lakeshore setback variance to construct a second <br />story addition partially within 75* of the shoreline, and hardcover variances for an attached <br />garage and a porch addition. <br />Staff Recommendation: <br />Staff recommends approval of the upper level additions in the 0-75' zone, finding that the <br />visual impact of those additions is decreased by constructing them in a '/i-story configuration, <br />and noting that the existing home being partially in the 0-75' zone is the hardship. <br />Staff recommends that a hardcover variance be approved only in conjunction with concurrent <br />removals of hardcover in a ratio of at least 1:1 to result in no net hardcover increase on the <br />site. <br />List of Exhibits <br />A - Application <br />B • Hardship Statement & Addenda <br />C - Existing & Proposed Survey/Site Plan <br />D - Proposed Plans & Elevations <br />E - Submitted Hardcover Calculations <br />F - Property Owners List <br />G - Plat map <br />H - Topography Map <br />I - Photos <br />Pertinent Code Sections <br />1.Sections 10.22, Subd. 2, 10.55 Subd. 8 & 10.56 Subd. 16(L): Hardcover: <br />a) 0% Hardcover allowed in 0-75' zone, proposed is 2,561 s.f or 21.3% (same as existing). <br />b) 25% Hardcover limit in 75-250' zone, proposed is increase 601 s.f from 3,829 s.f (20.5%) <br />to 4,430 s.f (23.7%). <br />The issue is that the site in total already exceeds its allotted hardcover allowance of 4,670 <br />s.f (25% of 75-250' zone) by 1720 s.f Applicant proposes a 300 s.f of removals in the <br />0-75' zone to compensate for the 601 s.f increase in the 75-250' zone <br />2.Sections 10.22, Subd. 1, 10.55 Subd. 8 and 10.56 Subd. 16C: Lakeshore Setback. No <br />structure is allowed within 75' of the OHWL of Lake Minnetonka. The proposed second <br />story addition over the existing house is partially within the 0-75' zone, at the nearest point <br />is 59' from the OHWL. <br />L... _________