12-02-24 - Council Work Session Agenda

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The general purpose and intent of the R-1, Single Family Residential District is to provide a residential atmosphere for those persons desiring a single family neighborhood with a suburban density. The district is intended for development of single family detached homes on lots served with public sanitary sewer and water. The three (3) lot residential subdivision proposed for Spargur Estates meets the general purpose and intent of providing single family housing. All three (3) lots will be served by public water and sanitary sewer. The Development will not be detrimental to the public health, safety or general welfare of the neighborhood. 2. The variance shall be consistent with the official City Comprehensive Plan. The variance is consistent with the City Comprehensive Plan. 3. There shall be practical difficulties in complying with this chapter. "Practical difficulties," as used in connection with the granting of a variance, means that the property owner proposes to use the property in a reasonable manner not permitted by this chapter. Economic considerations alone do not constitute practical difficulties. Practical difficulties include, but are not limited to, inadequate access to direct sunlight for solar energy systems. The subdivision of an existing parcel and creation of three (3) residential lots are reasonable uses of the property. The practical difficulty in complying with the lot depth requirements of the zoning ordinance would only allow for the creation of two (2) lots. This would not be consistent with the intent of the Mar Don Acres plat or the previously approved Hailey Manor and Isabell Estates subdivisions. 4. The plight of the landowner shall be due to circumstances unique to the property not created by the landowner. The plight of the landowner is created by the requirement to dedicate 30 feet of road right-of- way on Arlo Lane which reduces the lot depths to 132 feet. The need for the variances was not created by the landowner. 5. The variance shall not alter the essential character of the locality. The variance shall not alter the essential character of the locality. The proposal to create three (3) single family residential lots for the purpose of constructing two (2) new single family detached dwellings is compatible with the surrounding existing single family detached dwellings. Similar variances were approved for the two adjacent subdivisions, Hailey Manor and Golden Acre. 6. A variance shall not be granted for any use that is not allowed under the ordinance for property in the zoning district where the subject site is located.