HomeMy WebLinkAboutZ-4054-A Staff AnalysisAugust 15, 1983
Item No. 2 - Z -4054-A
Owner: Troy B. and Kitty L. Braswell
Address: 8302 Baseline Road
Description: Long Legal
Zoned: "I-2" Light Industrial District
Variance
Requested: Side and rear yard setback provisions
of Section 7-104.2 of the Zoning
Ordinance.
Justification: The owner states that his justification
is the requirement of ordinance which
imposes the rear yard and side yard
setbacks.
Present Use of
the Property: Commercial and Office Mixture
Proposed Use of
the Property: Remain the same with expanded floor
area for offices of Eight Wheels
Roller Rink Firm.
STAFF REPORT
A.
Engineering Issues:
The site is flat with common grade to adjacent
properties. The Baseline frontage is unimproved with a
requirement of one-half of a 100 -foot right-of-way with
one-half of a four lane paved facility, this being a
median divided or left turn lane structure. A one lot
final plat will be necessary to dedicate the additional
10 feet of right-of-way.
B. Staff Analysis:
A visit to the site and a few minutes review of this
proposal indicates to staff that the variance is not
needed in order to build the proposed addition. If the
owner turns the building 90% he will find that he can
provide more than sufficient setback on all sides of
the lot. The only negative involved in this is a
five-foot offset in the northeast corner of the
building to accommodate the requited 15 -foot setback on
the east. The area that remains behind the building
could provide the parking that would be displaced along
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the west line. Inasmuch as that parking appears to be
employee or pawn vehicles, it would not be a hardship
to place it behind the building. As to the parking
requirement for the total activity, the office use as
the larger occupancy would require plus or minus 12
spaces. The pawn shop being somewhat smaller in floor
space would require approximately eight spaces. The 20
existing are sufficient to meet the Zoning Ordinance
requirement.
C. Staff Recommendation:
Denial of the request inasmuch as the location of the
structure and the variance requested is purely site
choice and not hardship.
BOARD ACTION:
The applicant was present represented by Mr. Jack Ulmer.
Mr. Ulmer offered comments in support of the request. He
stated that his client had determined that he could settle
for the 15 -foot setback initially requested as opposed to
the modified request which would have provided 5 feet +.
There was considerable conversation dealing with the
setbacks on the adjacent lots, relationships to those
structures, the design of this site and its visibility from
Baseline Road. The Board voted on a motion to deny the
request as filed. That motion passed by a vote of 5 ayes,
0 noes, 3 absent and 1 open position.
The staff offered a comment dealing with the potential of
making an addition to the north end of this structure. The
suggestion would be that the 8.1 -foot side yard be allowed
along the east side for addition as proposed on the staff
illustration. The Board discussed this proposal briefly
followed•by a motion to allow the side yard variance so as
to permit continuity of the east alignment of the building,
but adherence to all other ordinance requirements. This
motion passed by a vote of 5 ayes, 0 noes, 3 absent and
1 open position.