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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTTON <br />COUNCIL MEETIh <br />MAR 2 8 1994 <br />cmroFORONo <br />DATE: March 25, 1994 <br />ITEM NO 5 <br />Department Approval: <br />Name Michael P. Gaffron <br />Title Assistant Planning & Zoning Administiaior <br />Atfanini'irator Reviewed:Agenda Section: <br />Zoning <br />Iton Description: #1909 David and Margaret Vergeyle, 1485 Green Trees Road - Variance <br />- Resolution <br />List of Exhibits <br />• —CcSCLJATtOKi <br />A -Revised Site Plan/GnKiing Plan <br />B -Sketch Depicting Shifted House Location <br />C -Sketch D.*picting Various Setbacks <br />D -Memo and Exhibits of 3/17/94 <br />Synopsis <br />The applicants initially requested a number of variances for construction of a new <br />residence on this lot, including: <br />Lack of required 30 ’ setback from top of bluff. <br />Stmcmre in bluff impact zone. <br />Intensive vegetation clearing on steep slopes. <br />Placement o^ fill in bluff impact zone. <br />Pursuant to Planning Commission’s recommendation, applicants have revised the proposal <br />to shift the house nearer Green Trees Road (thereby reducing the impact on the bluff and steep <br />slopes as well as reducing the degree of vegetation clearing) and have eliminated any proposed <br />filling on the lakeside of the house. An additional variance results: <br />• 39.4’ setback to street instead ^'t.' 'd 50 ’. <br />Planning Commission Recommendation <br />Please review the memo and exhibits of 3-17-94. Noting that this is the last lot in the <br />Green Trees subdivision. Planning Commission acknowledged that without variances to bluff <br />protection requirements, the lot would be unbuildable, with only a small area available on which <br />to construct a home (see Exiiibit C), Planning Commission’s review, therefore, centered around <br />how the bluff and steep slope impacts could be minimized. This resulted in the Planning <br />Commission voting 4 to 2 (with Planning Conunissioner Berg abstaining due to a potential <br />conflict of interest) on a motion to send the following recommendation to Council: <br />I