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mcctINQ <br />Application Date: <br />60 Day Deadline: <br />12/19/01 <br />2/17/02 2 8 2002 <br />REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION I v>r '-'HO/VO <br />DATE: January 24,2002 <br />ITEM NO. <br />Department Approval: <br />Name Paul Weinberger <br />Title Zoning Administrator <br />Administrator Reviewed:Agenda Section: <br />Zoning <br />Item Description:#01-2742 Douglas and Roban Smith <br />4195 Highwood Road <br />Variances <br />Zoning District:LR-IB One Family Lakeshore Residential District (I acre) <br />Lbt of Exhibits <br />A Resolution <br />B Site Plan <br />C Planning Report (January 4,2002) <br />Application: Application is two fold. First the applicants have applied for variances to permit a 10' <br />addition to the east side of the existing residence to enlarge the kitchen and mud room. The bedrooms below <br />the kitchen would also be increased by 10' and a dormer would be added to the second floor bedroom. The <br />addition would encroach into the average lakeshore setback. <br />Secondly, a variance was requested to permit a 12' wide storage addition to the detached garage. The <br />existing garage has previously had a variance to permit a 9' street setback, where IS' is normally required. <br />The proposed addition would be to the opposite side of the garage to not decrease the 9' street setback. <br />Planning Commission Recommendation: Planning Commission recommended approval of the variance <br />to permit the 10' residential addition into the average lakeshore setback based on the following findings of <br />fact: <br />1.The intent of the average lakeshore setback ordinance is to protect lake views to adjacent <br />residential buildings. <br />Views from the house, located east of the applicant’s property, would be minimally <br />impacted to the lake based on the side by side location of the houses. <br />3. <br />4. <br />The house to the west is located approximately 120' from the applicant’s house. <br />The applicant’s house is located at a much higher elevation than the house located to the <br />west. <br />5.The addition is to east side of the house. There is no increase to the visual mass of the <br />neighbor’s house on the lakeside that is visible to the property to the west <br />V" <br />'■ «'■ <br />I-.- ■ “Tt