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.� i#err� Rdo: 5 M��ting Daie: Apri� 2. 2003 Tyg�e of �a��iness: Pubfic Hearir�el _I ., / _. � I :, � ' � ... �; fl�ounds View Planning Commission �rorno James Ericsan, Acting City Adminisfrator Item iitle/Sub��tn Public Hearing and Considerafion of a Requesf for a Variance to A(low Encroachr�ent of a EVew Hame into the Prevailing Front Setback at 7741 Long Lake Road. .; � . , !n January o� 2002, the City Cour�cil approved the final Plat for Gustaisons Fifth ,qdditior�, a repiaffing of fand locaied afi the northeast corner of Coun�y Road i and Long Lake Road. The subdivision was campficated due to ownership issues, variances and uiilifiy work, which was no4 iniiiafed untif �he fasfi months of 2002. After all of fhe (egal and utilifiy issues had been resoived, the Cify issued a building permit for a new �om� on Lot 1, Block i of the subdivision, the northernmost lot on Long take Road. The permit was issued on January 27, 2003. The survey attached to the permit application ir�dicated a building setback of 30.3 feet from th� property (ine abufting Long Lake Road. Such a sefiback compfies wit� the City's "fiypical" requirements. �'l D�s�u�sro�: On February 28, 2003, one of the Cifiy Counci( members contacfed me c{uestioning the sefiback of the new l�ome under construction at 7741 Long Lake Road, in tha� it was significanfly closer to fihe sfreet than other homes on the block. Staff inspected the property and verified thaf the home was ir�deed cioser to the sfireet than ihe other homes along tha� side of Lor�g Lake Road. The survey for the property indicated the building woufd be sef back thirty feef (30.3} from the Long Lake Road right of way. The inspection reuealed thai the home was being constructed according to the survey-specified set back. Setback r�quirements are addressed in Seetion 1104.01 of the Zoning Code. Each zoning disfrict is lisied with the corr�sponding front, side and rear setbacks. In an Ra1, Single Family Residential districf, the typical setbacks are as foflows: Front, 30 fee�; Side, 1� feet; and Rear, 30 feet. ft is f�otnoted in the Code #hat sheds and garages, attached or detached, can have side and rear setbacks of 5 feet. {f�o accessory buildir�g can be located in a front yard unless it is attached to the principal structure, and even fihen the minimum sef back is fhirfy feet.) The front yard setback is further footnofed to address the issiae of °pr�vailing setbacks", arficufafed as follows: "Where principal buildings in existence on lots wifhin the same block on the same side of the sfreef have front yard setbacks different from thase required, ihe minirr►um fronf yard setback for any new principa! buildings shall be the minimum fronf yard seiback in exisfence for any one lot. !n no case shal! the -- front yard setback be less fhan thfrfy feet (30)."