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Item #6 <br /> • REQUEST FOR PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION <br /> Meeting Date: July 16, 1997 <br /> Staff Report by: James Ericson, Planning Associate <br /> Planning Case No.: 494-97 <br /> Request: Variance to allow Air Conditioning Unit in Front Yard <br /> Petitioner: Diane& Craig Weinmann <br /> Location: 2209 Bronson Drive <br /> PIN No. 08-30-23-12-0018 <br /> Zoning/Land Use: R-1, Single Family Residential/ Single Family Home <br /> Applicable Regulations: Section 1103.06, Subd. 2: Air conditioning units permitted only in <br /> side and rear yards. <br /> Section 1125.02, Subd. 2: Criteria for granting variances. <br /> • Attachments: Planning Application <br /> Zoning Map <br /> Letter from Applicant/Photo Documentation <br /> Planning Commission Resolution No. 512-97 <br /> Background: <br /> The applicants, Diane and Craig Weinmann, are requesting a variance to locate an air conditioning <br /> unit in the front of their home located at 2209 Bronson Drive. The line running to the furnace is <br /> leaking and needs to be replaced. At the time the air conditioning was installed, the basement was <br /> finished and converted into living space. The line is in the ceiling which is sheetrocked and <br /> textured, effectively preventing its removal. Putting the air conditioner in the front would permit <br /> easy access to an unfinished part of the basement where the furnace is located. The applicants <br /> propose to landscape around the unit with shrubs and other plantings to screen it from public view. <br /> Analysis: <br /> The Code states in Section 1103.06, Subd 2 that air conditioners are allowed in side and rear yards, <br /> but not in front yards. The intent of this Code is to maintain a uniform, consistent and uncluttered <br /> curb-side appearance of homes in the City. The variance is requested to alleviate the hardship that <br /> the applicants currently face. The applicants did not cause this hardship. Granting of this variance <br /> would not be materially detrimental to the purposes of Zoning Code nor will it have the effect of <br /> impairing adequate supplies of air or light to adjacent properties. <br /> Recommendation: <br /> Approve Planning Commission Resolution No. 512-97 granting approval of a variance to allow <br /> • for the location of an air conditioning unit in the front yard of 2209 Bronson Drive, subject to <br /> stipulations. <br /> N:\DATA\USERS\PAMS\SHARE\DEVCASESW94-97\AC-VAR.RPT <br />