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Mounds View Planning Commission April 7, 1999 • Regular Meeting Page 2 3. Citizens' Requests and Comments on Items Not on the Agenda There were no citizen requests or comments on items not on the agenda. 4. Approval of Minutes A. February 17, 1999 Miller asked what date should appear on the February 17, 1999, and March 3, 1999, meeting minutes to indicate approval. Ericson stated the dates have been corrected so they don't conflict. MOTION/SECOND: Stevenson/Kaden to approve the February 17, 1999 meeting minutes as corrected. Ayes - 8 Nays - 0 The motion carried. 5. Planning Case No. 550-99 [Public Meeting] • Property Involved: 5302 Raymond Avenue Consideration of a Variance Request to Allow a Five-Foot Building Setback for Living Space Expansion Applicant: Don Norris, Property Owner The applicant was present. Chair Peterson opened the public hearing at 7:10 p.m. Ericson gave the staff report as follows: The applicant, Don Norris, is requesting a variance from the required ten-foot side yard setback established for principal buildings and living space therein. He plans on constructing an attached, 16-foot wide garage to his twinhome, located at 5302 Raymond Avenue. (He owns both sides, renting out the other unit.) In conjunction with this construction, he would like to add living space behind the garage, which would maintain the same proposed setback--five feet--as the proposed garage. Currently there is no garage present, and the square footage for this half of the twinhome is about 540 square feet. The garage expansion, which would be allowed unconditionally, is proposed at 368 square feet. • The subject property is one of several side-by-side twin homes that were built in the mid-1960s on the east side of Raymond Avenue. All of the lots are 100 feet wide which leaves little room for expansion possibilities. The applicant has already expanded out the back of the house, creating