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Excerpt DRAFT Planning Commission Minutes of April 24, 2006 Variances: 8009 Hill Trail PUBLIC HEARING: Variance-8009 Hill Trail The Planner presented the variance application for front yard setback and minimum lot size. The applicant proposes an addition to an existing home of three or four bedrooms with a second story. The existing home encroaches 2.5 feet into the front setback. City records reveal the septic system was installed through the 201 Program in 1985 and it is sized by volume for a two bedroom home. Impervious surface coverage standards are met, even with the addition. The Planner said the lot size variance request is comparable to other requests the city has heard from within this neighborhood. He said it is a neighborhood of very small non- conforming lots as compared to current zoning standards, and the proposed addition expands the non -conformity for this property. He said City records indicate the house was constructed in 1945 with several remodels and upgrades but no enlargement. The Planner explained that over the passage of time, standards have been adopted for what constitutes a legal bedroom and one of the two bedrooms originally constructed is not legal. The Planner said the introduction of the City's Shoreland Ordinance and Zoning Code created the property's non -conformities. The Planner said he recommends approval subject to an approved septic system redesign before the building permit is issued to match the number of legal bedrooms this home will have. Jason Tacheny, Applicant Mr. Tacheny said the house currently has one bedroom and three children and that is a hardship for the entire family. The Zoning changed after the house was built. One bedroom is not to Code due to inadequate egress along with a circuit box in that room. He said he has a certified septic design prepared that is sized for four bedrooms. He noted that the addition encroaches only 2.5 feet into the front lot setback. THE CHAIRMAN OPENED THE PUBLIC HEARING AT 7:15 P.M. Nobody spoke. THE CHAIRMAN CLOSED THE PUBLIC HEARING AT 7:16 P.M. M/S/P, Armstrong/Fliflet to recommend approval of variances for front set back and lot size minimums for the construction of an addition to the home at 8009 Hill Trail based c three Findings: 1. The property cannot be put to reasonable use because the home was designed and constructed 60 years ago, well before public health and safety standards existed; application of those standards today limits the existing home to one bedroom, and this neither in character with the balance neighborhood, nor is it a reasonable use of the property. 2. The variance requested results from circumstances unique to properties where principal structures were constructed to adoption of City Zoning and Shoreland