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III Item No. C.-- Staff Report No. Meeting Date: April 26, 1999 Type of Business: PH& CB WK' Work Session;PH:Public Hearing; CA:Consent Agenda;CB:Council Business City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor & City Council From: James Ericson, Planning Associate Item Title/Subject: Consideration of Resolution 5333, a Resolution for an Oversized Garage at 2091 Terrace Drive; Planning Case No. 552-99. Date of Report: April 22, 1999 Background: 2091 Terrace Drive is located north of County Road I near the eastern border of the City. The property--an interior lot--is approximately 13,050 square feet. The house is set back approximately 49 feet toward the middle of the lot, with the detached garage situated behind the house. The house, at approximately 926 square feet, is presently larger than the existing two-stall garage, which is 506 square feet. The applicant will be removing the present garage to make room for the new one. There is an eighty square foot (8 x 10) shed behind the existing garage which is set far enough back so as not to be in the way of the proposed garage. Discussion: A Conditional Use Permit is required, in this case, due to the size of the proposed garage. The City Code unconditionally allows garages up to 952 square feet as long as the home's foundation (in square feet) exceeds the square feet of the proposed garage. If the garage is larger than the house, regardless of its size, a conditional use permit is required. The size of the proposed garage is 1,040 square feet, which is not much larger than the house. While it would be larger, there would not exist the"imbalance" which has been present in the last few over-sized garage CUP requests. The applicant proposes to construct an addition to the rear of the house in the following year which would again make the house bigger than the garage. The proposed location of the garage does not interfere with the future expansion plans nor the existence of a shed in the back yard. Dimensional Criteria All of the dimensional criteria associated with this request--setbacks, spacing between buildings, width of proposed garage, and numbers of doors--satisfy the requirements as stated in Chapter 1104 of the Zoning Code. The proposed garage is about 91 feet from the front property line, 43 feet from the rear property line and is setback from the side of the property by about seven feet. Taking into consideration the size of the shed, the total amount of accessory building coverage on