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9 r- L Request for Council Action continued Page 2 October 19,2000 #2630 Gregg and Stephanie Larsen The motion as stated in the draft minutes was to allow hardcover in the 75-250' zone at a level of 4,506 s.f. (49.8%). The motion verbatim by Commissioner Lindquist was as follows: "I’d like to make a motion to approve Application #2630for Gregg and Stephanie Larsen, 1380 Rest Point Road, variance to build a patio no bigger than was previously - we’re approving a variance, basically a hardcover variance, not to exceed 4,506 square feet in the 75-250 ’, and to approve the variance in the 0- 75 ’ up to 882 square feet This does include removal ofthe existing 1,727squarefeet of landscape fabric in the 75-250 ’ and also any landscape fabric in the 0-75 ’. ’’ The motion was then modified to add the six recommendations from the City Engineer ’s letter, and that a landscape plan be submitted for screening of the walls. The motion was approved on a vote of 5-0. During the Planning Commission discussion, and after the 4,506 s.f. figure had been arrived at, the applicant asked whether he could trade existing driveway to get a patio larger than 135 s.f. There was no clear answer to this during the discussion nor in the motion. ANALYSIS OF REQUEST Staff suggests it would be inconsistent to allow such a driveway-for-deck tradeoff when hardcover is so excessive on a site. If the driveway hardcover is non-essential, then it should be removed and not credited toward some other form of excessive hardcover. No specific plan for driveway reductions has been submitted by the applicant. Council should also consider the history of past variances on this property, which unfortunately was not presented by staff during the Planning Commission review process. This site received a variance in 1987 to allow a room and attached garage addition. Hardcover allowed by that variance (see Resolution No. 2217, Exhibit C) in the 75-250' zone was 2833 s.f for the house/garage/porch, 810 s.f for driveway, and 100 s.f. for landscape areas, for a total of 3,743 s.f. The existing house-garage- porch in 2000 has not changed significantly e.xcept for removal of the 135 s.f deck, but the existing driveway has grown from 810 s.f to 1,299 s.f without any City approvals. ISSUES FOR COUNCIL TO CONSIDER 1.Should the applicants’ 75-250' hardcover allowance (absent any contemplated driveway removals) be 4,506 s.f based on the incorrect number arrived at during the Planning Commission meeting, or the corrected number of 4,219 s.f? Staff Recon..i.codatioD: 4,219 s.f. -I