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Complete Date: 2/14/02 60 Day Deadline: 4/16/02 Poi !»•/«.,I ticcTING MAR 2 5 2002 on t UP UPIUWO REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION DATE: March 20. 2002 ITEM NO. Department Approval: Name Paul Weinberger Title Zoning Administrator Administrator Reviewed:Agenda Section: Zoning Item Description:#02-2745 Ilona and Kenneth Peterson 1074 Wildhurst Trail Variances LR-IB - Single Family Lakcshore Residential DistrictZoning District: List of Exhibits A Resolution B Survey/Site Plan C Planning Report Application The property owners plan to construct a residence on this \acant lot and have requested variances to permit land alteration and construction of a garage/enclosed walkway that encroaches 24’ into a required 26 ’ wetland buffer. The City’s Flood Plain and Wetlands Management ordinance (Section 10.55) does not permit filling, grading, excavation, hardcover, and structures within a protected wetland and within 26' of the edge of the wetland. A variance is also required to permit the garage to be located 17.76 ’ from the front propert> line, where a 35’ setback is required. fhe garage is a two level building with driveway access to each level. The two level garage requires less building mass on the property as a traditional one story-four stall garage Is difficult to fit on the site due to the wetland location. The property owners had done their original house design based on wetland information that was determined in 1991 before the Wetland Conservation Act rules for delineation were established. In 2002. determination of a wetland boundary must be completed by methods required by the Wetland Conservation Act. The new wetland boundary was determined to be significantly larger than was found in 1991 causing the house to be located within the new wetland setback. A variance to permit new construction on the property of less than I acre is now required, as the e.xpanded delineated wetland area has reduced the dry buildable area to less than one-acre. To accommodate for the lost buffer area the property owners have mitigated an area totaling 2,180 s.f as additional wetland and buffer area on the property. The total amount of buffer area being impacted by the project is approximately 1,500 s.f.