Re: request to vary from covenants

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/3 TO: Planning Commission Members Ron Moorse, City Administrator FROM: Jeanne A. Mabusth, Building & Zoning Administrator DATE: June 17, 1993 � SLTBJECT: Kenneth Figge, 2004 Sugarwood Drive - Request to Vary from Covenants List of Exhibits A - Location Map B - Plat of Sugar Woods C - Original Survey Presented with Building Permit Application D - Revised Survey with Amended Driveway Plan E - Supplemental Sheets to Building Permit Application for Sugar Woods Development - Highlight of Covenants Required by City F - Current Drainage Pattern for Properties Located at 2002 and 2004 Sugarwood Drive G - Hardcover Fact Sheet H - Packet of Support Information Submitted by Applicant's Consultant Zoning District R-lA - Planned Residential Development Lot area = 53,421.89 s.f. or 1.226 acres Building envelope area = 19,483.23 s.f. (defined by 50' front and rear setbacks and 40' side setbacks) Allowed hardcover = 15,586.6 s.f. or 80% Proposed hardcover = 10,125 s.f. or 50% Description of Request At the time of the development of the plat of Sugar Woods, covenants governing the development of each site were developed by both City and applicant's attorney. The City executed the covenants in an attempt to reenforce special conditions of plat approval. The Sugar Woods handout, E�chibit E, highlights some of those development controls. The applicant asks the Planning Commission to approve "variances" to these covenants. The first involves a slight curvature of the driveway resulting from the need to save a mature tree. Review Exhibit C, the curved drive was shown on the original site plan submitted with the building permit. The building staff could not accept this plan for with the building permit application because of the curve and asked for an amended site plan, E�ibit D. Applicant now seeks approval of the Planning Commission.