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REQUEST FOR PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION Meeting Date: October 6, 1999 Staff Report by: James Ericson, Planning Associate Planning Case No.: 570-99 Applicant: Jeff Johnson Request: The applicant is seeking a variance for a one-foot sideyard setback to construct two three-stall garage structures Location: 2075 & 2081 Hillview Road PIN Nos. 05-30-23-41-0011 & 005-30-23-41-0005 Zoning/Land Use: R-3, Medium Density Residential Applicable Regulations: 1104.01, Subd. 4: Accessory buildings detached from principal building shall have a side-yard setback of five feet. Accessory buildings shall not be allowed in the front yard. Attachments: 1. Planning Application 2. Zoning Map 3. Location Map 4. Site Plan Background: The applicant, owner of two contiguous properties on Hillview Road, each improved with four- unit multi-family structures, wishes to construct two three-stall garage structures between the two buildings to service both buildings. The garages would be setback from the common property line by one foot on each side. The applicant, since taking over ownership of these two properties, has invested considerable expense in rehabbing the buildings and making upgrades and improvements. The addition of a garage structure would without question be beneficial to the property, to its residents, and to the immediate area. This request in was before the Planning Commission at your last meeting on September 15, 1999, at which time it was thought that a variance could be avoided by combining the two parcels into one, effectively eliminating the interior lot-line. The problem with this solution was not with the County or applicant, but rather the applicant's two mortgagers. The applicant then asked to revise his request such that there would be two garage structures rather than one, each separated from the property line by one foot.