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Item No: 5D <br />Meeting Date: May 18, 2016 <br />Type of Business: Planning Case VR2011-002 <br /> <br />To: Mounds View Planning Commission <br />From: Jon Sevald, Planner <br />Re: Consider Resolution 1051-16, A Resolution Approving a Variance Extension <br />Request for reduced driveway setbacks at 5338-5340 Raymond Avenue; <br />Planning Case VR2011-002 <br />Date: May 18, 2016 <br /> <br /> <br />Introduction <br />In 2011, the applicant, Michael Kinyon was granted a variance for a 1’ side yard <br />setback for two driveways at a duplex. A condition of the variance is that the driveways <br />be completed within one year. The applicant received a one-year extension in 2012, <br />2013, 2014, and 2015. The applicant is requesting an additional one-year extension to <br />the variance. <br /> <br />Discussion <br />The applicant owns a number of duplexes on Raymond Ave. that included gravel <br />driveways. During a 2011 street reconstruction project, the property owner had the <br />driveways widened, requiring variances to the side yard setbacks. These properties <br />include: <br /> <br />5330 & 5332 Raymond Ave. (Res. 938-11) <br />5338 & 5340 Raymond Ave. (Res. 939-11) <br />5344 & 5346 Raymond Ave. (Res. 940-11) <br />5372 & 5374 Raymond Ave. (Res. 941-11) <br />5380 & 5382 Raymond Ave. (Res. 942-11) <br /> <br />These properties are narrow and had no garages. The owner has made improvements <br />to each property (except the subject property), including constructing attached single- <br />car garages, and two-car wide driveways. <br /> <br />The subject property; 5338 & 5340 Raymond Ave., received a variance for 1’ side yard <br />setbacks for both driveways. <br /> <br />Analysis <br />Consistent with Section 1125.02, Subd. 5 of the City Code, the approved variance for <br /> <br />M E M O <br />