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Home My WebLink AboutEmail to Applicant from TH 061920From: Herndon, Tim Sent: Friday, June 19, 2020 11:39 AM To: 'ksaffa1981@gmail.com' <ksaffa1981@gmail.com> Cc: Moore, Monte <MMoore@littlerock.gov> Subject: IMPORTANT: BOA Z-9518 2712 N. Fillmore Street Kristen, I received your emailed plans today. Per our earlier discussion and documents you’ve submitted, I offer the following as a way to help you advance your project while gaining the support of this office: 1. We must defer this item to the next BOA meeting (date presently unknown, due to Covid) to allow you to generate plans and revisions supportable by the Planning and Development Dept. We will not require you to re-notify surrounding (200-foot radius) owners, although we presently stand by for your forthcoming proof of initial notification. (As stated by phone, you have the right to move ahead with the application in its current state, although you would do so without a recommendation of approval and the likelihood the Board of Adjustment would not approve. If you choose this approach, please let us know right away.) 2. We encourage you to reconsider the setback from the Z Street property line/right-of-way line. As I mentioned by phone today, we can support the lesser setback you’ve presently proposed (8.3 feet,) but ask that you consider the full 15’ required by code, in order to accommodate a car or two in your driveway without projecting into the actual paved street. Otherwise, this is your call. 3. The setbacks to the south and to the east must be at least 18” (a 50% reduction to the otherwise required 3 feet) to allow construction and maintenance of your building to take place on your property rather than from adjacent properties, as a 0-foot setback would dictate. For obvious reasons, the normally required 3 feet is conducive to normal construction and maintenance activities upon your property. 4. Reduce the proposed building coverage of the required rear yard. Your present proposal to cover 77% of the required rear yard is excessive. Our office will consider supporting something like 50%, which equates to something like a 563sf footprint (your currently proposed footprint is 870sf.) 5. …The garage across the street, whom you expressly compared your project to, occupies 42.75% of its required rear yard. Additionally, the neighboring garage structure required no variances from the setback requirements, with 15 feet from their street right-of-way line, 6.5 feet from their rear property line, and over 4 feet from their side property line. Again, by comparison, your present application asks for 8.3 feet, 0 feet and 0 feet, respectively.) 6. While we talked this morning, you stated the garage/structure would include a “workout room and an upstairs loft and play room.” However, the plans you provided show a full second story [not a mere “loft”] with a full bath and a kitchen equipped with all but a cooking range. The site plan you submitted with your application clearly states, “PROPOSED GARAGE & APT.” To be clear, an apartment, or secondary dwelling unit, or rented living space is not permitted on a single-family lot. The City Code states, “Sec. 36-254 Use regulations. Permitted uses. Permitted uses are one (1) single -family dwelling on any lot or parcel.” While the features depicted in your floor plans are, technically, not prohibited, the word “APT.” strongly suggests an intent other than what the Code allows and is, therefore, not supportable by this office. Please consider the above and let me know your intentions. For now I plan to forward a one-month deferral request to the Board, and I assume you’ll submit altered plans by the next submittal deadline of June 30th. If this isn’t possible, or if you have other concerns, let me know and we’ll do our best to work with you to move ahead with this. Thanks. – Tim Cc: Monte Moore, file Tim A. Herndon, Development Manager City of Little Rock | Planning and Development 723 W. Markham Street | Little Rock, AR 72201 Main: (501)371-4790 | Direct: (501)371-6817 Email: therndon@littlerock.gov Website: https://www.littlerock.gov/ From: ksaffa1981@gmail.com <ksaffa1981@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 3:21 PM To: Herndon, Tim <therndon@littlerock.gov> Subject: Re: BOA Z-9518 2712 N. Fillmore Street Let me know if this is what you need. Hopefully they made the correct changes. On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 8:42 AM Herndon, Tim <therndon@littlerock.gov> wrote: Noted and thanks. – Tim Herndon From: ksaffa1981@gmail.com <ksaffa1981@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2020 3:57 PM To: Herndon, Tim <therndon@littlerock.gov> Subject: Re: BOA Z-9518 2712 N. Fillmore Street Thank you, Tim. Our surveyor will have the updated survey ready on Monday so I’ll get that to you as soon as possible. On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 3:46 PM Herndon, Tim <therndon@littlerock.gov> wrote: Carlton and Kristen – Attached find neighborhood notices in MSWord and .pdf form, for your use in distributing to neighbors within the legal notification boundary of the subject property. Per the Board of Adjustment bylaws (provided further below), the applicant is to obtain a 200-foot property owner list and mail the attached notices to the area land owners via certified mail. These notices shall be delivered no later than 10 (ten) days prior to the hearing date of July 2, 2020 at 4pm CST. In the case of applications for single-family and two-family properties, the City normally will accept manually obtained, hand-signed owners notices collected by the applicant. HOWEVER, due to Covid-19, the City of Little Rock strongly recommends the certified mail approach. Thank you, Tim A. Herndon, Development Manager City of Little Rock | Planning and Development 723 W. Markham Street | Little Rock, AR 72201 Main: (501)371-4790 | Direct: (501)371-6817 Email: therndon@littlerock.gov Website: https://www.littlerock.gov/ Board of Adjustment Bylaws (Art. II., Sec. 3) state: “Before the Board of Adjustment shall consider a request for a variance on any property, the petitioner for such variance shall give not less than ten (10) days written notice of the time, place and date of the public hearing thereon to all record owners of property situated within 200 feet thereof as certified by a licensed abstractor. Said notice shall be sent by certified mail to the last known address of such record owner, and the petitioner shall execute and file with the secretary of said Board an affidavit showing compliance herewith, attaching as exhibits to said affidavit official evidence that such notices have been so mailed.”