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• • Planning Case No. 452-96 New Apostolic Church; 3025 County Road H September 4, 1996 Page 5 average approximately 36 feet. The median distance is 30 feet. (See attached chart.) When the site is designed to meet the setback requirements and the parking requirements, as well as to provide a buffer of 12 feet along the north property line, the building encroaches into the front setback. The rights commonly enjoyed by other properties in this district are for development of single family residences. Allowance has been made for churches as a special review use. The allowance for a church use could be exercised and could accommodated within the required setbacks if the size of the building were reduced. c. That the special conditions or circumstances do not result from the actions of the applicant. The proposal is for new construction on a cleared site, where no impediment exists to achieving the dimensional requirements in the Code. The need for the variance has been caused by the size of building, seating capacity and site layout chosen by the applicant. d. That granting the variance requested will not confer on the applicant any special privilege that is denied by this Title to owners of other lands, structures or buildings in the same • district. The granting of this variance will allow the applicant to construct a church which will conform to the dimensional requirements, and typical buffering provided between church properties and residences, only by encroaching into the front setback. (The layout also shows parking spaces sized at 9 x 18 feet, instead of the required 9 x 20 feet, and the number of parking spaces provided is one less than required. This issue is discussed later.) The encroachment could be alleviated by reducing the size of the building to one more in proportion to the size of the site. e. That the variance requested is the minimum variance which would alleviate the hardship. Economic conditions alone shall not be considered a hardship. The five foot variance requested is the minimum needed in order to accommodate the building, the parking area and a buffer of 12 feet along the north property line. f. The variance would not be materially detrimental to the purpose of this Title or to other property in the same zone. The purpose of the Zoning Code is in part to "prevent overcrowding of land and undue concentration of structures by regulating land, buildings, yards and density of population" and "to provide for compatibility of different land uses." The purpose of the R-1 district is • "to provide for low density single-family detached residential dwelling units and directly related, complementary uses." The typical standard in the community for buffering