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�� . .:: -=- - i_= � _- :_- . _ - � �. _ _ , --- Item # 6 City of Mounds View Planning Commission Report Meeting Date: Ap�il 5, 2000 Title: DISCUSSION AND CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION 612-00, A RESOLUTION CONTEMPLATING THE APPROVAL OF A VARIANCE FOR A REDUCED CORNER LOT FRONT SETBACK TO ALLOW A GARAGE EXPANSION AT 2741 HODGES LANE. Planning Case No.: VR00-001 Applicant: Cathy Magoris Location: 27� 1 Hodges Lane Applicable Regulations: Section 1104.01, Subd. 3b, regarding Setbacks: Principal buildings shall maintain a thirty foot setback from any lot line abutting a public street. Section 1125.02, Subd. 2 outlines the criteria to be used by the Planning Commission in its review of variances. Background: The applicant, Cathy Magoris, who lives at 2741 Hodges Lane, which is located at the northwest corner of Hodges Lane and Park View Drive, is requesting a variance from the required thirty- foot corner front yard setback. She would like to expand an e�sting attached two car, 576 square-foot garage into a 864 square-foot three car garage. The Planning Commission heard this variance request at their meeting on March 15, 2000, giving significant discussion to the hardship criteria and whether or not all of the criteria were thought to be met. Analysis: As with any variance application, for the Planning Commission to act favorably, there must be a demonstrated hardship or practical di�iculty associated with the property that makes a literal interpretation of the Code overly burdensome or restrictive to a property owner. State statutes require that the governing body review a set of specified criteria for each application and make its decision in accordance with these criteria. These criteria are set forth in Section 1125.02, Subdivision 2, of the City Code. The Code clearly states that a hardship exists when all of the criteria are met. The individual criteria, with responses, are as follows: