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Non-rental guest apartments are permitted by review of the Planning Commission and Council as a conditional use permit in ‘*R” residential districts. The zoning ordinance defines a non-rental guest apartment as, “An apartment within the principal residence structure on a K't for the sole use o'"-'’' e occupants of the principal rcsiucnce, including their domestic employees or non-paying guests. There shall be at least one access door to the apartment from within the principal structure, and such door shall be the primary access to the apartment. Application for such a guest apartment shall address the concerns of parking, sewage treatment, entry way and interior access method. Such apanmenis shall not have utilities metered separately from the principal residence utilities and shall not have a separate street address. The guest apartment does function as part of the main house because it is located above the garage and there is a door '/jading from the main house to the guest apartment. From the outside it appears to be part of the hou e. u J ane would not know it is a guest apartment. Parking: The garage is built to park 6 cars. The driveway is not completed, but there is plenty of room for an additional parking spaces if needed. Sewage: The property is sewvred. Interior access: There is a door leading from the main residence to the apartment. Entrv way: There arc 3 entiyways to the apartment. From inside the main residence, from the garage and another from the exterior of the structure. There is aceess from w ithin the residenee howev er, what appears to be the primar>’ entrance is the one located on the c.xterior of the residence. The exterior door goes to a stairway which leads up to the apartment. Issues for Consideration: I. Planning Commission should consider whether the outside door is a problem. Should the access door from inside the residence be a non-locking door? Close the access door from the garage? 2. Restrictive covenant should be recorded on chain of title (as part of the CUP resolution) sta:ing the apartment is w ithin the principal residence and is for use by occupants of the principal residence, including their domestic employees or non-paying guests. No rental of the guest apartment shall be permitted. 3. There is adequate room for one additional parking stall if required. 4. The utilities must not be metered separately; and the apartment must not have a separate address. *02 ’7s* Robert Piepei 3995 North Shore Otwc Coniliiional Permit Pige 2