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JUf! j <br />'<VQ <br />REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION <br />DATE: June 6, 1^9?^ <br />ITEM NO.: 3 <br />Department Approval: <br />Name Michael P. Gaffron <br />Title Assistant Planning & Zoning Administrator <br />Administrator Reviewed:Agenda Section: <br />Zoning <br />Item Description: #2112 Richard and Janet Putnam, 2765 Casco Point Road - After-the- <br />Fact Variance - Resolution <br />Zoning District: LR-IC, Single Family Lakeshore Residential, 'A Acre <br />Application: After-the-fact hardcover variance for reconstruction of existing deck. <br />List of Exhibits <br />A - <br />B - <br />C - <br />D - <br />Resolution <br />Notice of Planning Commission Action <br />Memo and Exhibits of May 15, 1996 <br />Minutes from Variance Approval #1176 (1987) <br />Discussion <br />Please review the memo and exhibits of May 15. Briefly, applicant was granted a variance for <br />additions and remodeling of his residence in 1987 via Resolution No. 2254. The wording of <br />the variance resolution and the plans and sketches submitted with that application, lead one to <br />conclude that some expansion of the subject deck was proposed and approved at that time. <br />Applicant obtained a jiermit for construction of the screen porch and deck work in 1988. <br />Applicant constructed a screen porch, added railings to the existing deck, as well as a stairway <br />at the south end of the deck, but at that time did not rebuild the deck. The final inspection <br />on the deck/screen porch construction was completed on June 26, 1989 at which time the <br />building permit would have been considered as no longer valid for further work. In 1994, the <br />Building Inspectors found the applicant replacing major portions of the deck. Staff concluded <br />that this additional work required a building permit as well as additional variance approval <br />because it constituted replacement of existing structure/hardcover when the property is in excess <br />of the standard hardcover limits. <br />Please recall that by Council directive, since the mid-1980's staff has not had the ability to <br />negotiate hardcover revisions when a property exceeds the 25% hardcover limit. In this case, <br />and in a significant number of other properties in Orono, "in-kind" deck replacement where <br />hardcover is exet .ve has been dealt with via the variance process. <br />J