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Zoning File #2138 <br />June 12, 1996 <br />Page 2 <br />the nature of hardcover, requiring a variance. Further, the new enclosure adds to the percentage of <br />lot covered by structures. The lot is only 0.23 acres, hence both lot coverage and hardcover <br />percentages are in excess of the limits. Note that current hardcover is actually slightly less than that <br />approved in 1990, because applicants have removed more plastic from rockbeds than was required <br />in the prior approval. <br />Pertinent Facts <br />Lot area: <br />FXISTING <br />10,001 s.f. <br />(0.23 ac.) <br />Front setback: 37.2* <br />75-250' 4,437 s.f. <br />Hardcover: (44.4%) <br />Lot coverage 2,679 s.f. <br />by structures: (26.8%) <br />PROPOSED <br />Same <br />REQUIRED <br />STANDARD <br />43,560 s.f. <br />(1.0 ac.) <br />VARIANCE <br />(Existing) <br />33.2‘35'1.8’ <br />4,437 s.f. <br />(44.4%) <br />2,500 s.f. <br />(25%) <br />1,937 s.f. <br />(19.4%) <br />2,771 s.f. <br />(27.7%) <br />1,500 s.f. <br />(15%) <br />1,271 s.f. <br />(12.7%) <br />Issues for Consideration <br />1.Applicants have provided no hardship statement, perhaps because the CUP form submitted <br />did not request one. Applicants should be asked what hardships exist to justify the variances. <br />2.Please review the staff memos of May 15 and May 22, 1990. The slab porch approved in <br />1990 required neither a street setback variance nor lot coverage variance because it did not <br />extend above the main floor level of the house. The Planning Commission in 1990 neither <br />approved nor closed the door on future enclosure of the slab porch, but noted that a future <br />variance application would be necessary to do so. Applicants were advised of such a <br />requirement as Condition 2 of Resolution #2811. Therefore, Plamiing Commission should <br />feel no obligation to approve or disapprove the current request based on any past action. <br />3.The property owners have removed most of the extraneous hardcover on the property. The <br />proposed plans show a doorway and apparent use of the rock and plastic area along the front <br />of the house as a walkway, which would possibly preclude the removal of that hardcover <br />surface. That 6'x32 ’ area is the one remaining landscape area which could feasibly be made <br />nonhardcover. Will Planning Commission require any hardcover removals if Uie current <br />request is approved? <br />1 <br />ij