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Item No: 5A <br />Meeting Date: June 5, 2013 <br />Type of Business: Action <br /> <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br />To: Mounds View Planning Commission <br />From: Heidi Heller, Planning Associate <br />Item Title/Subject: Variance Extension Requests for reduced driveway setbacks <br />at 5338-5340, 5372-5374 and 5380-5382 Raymond Avenue; <br />Planning Cases VR2011-002, VR2011-004, VR2011-005 <br /> <br />Introduction: <br /> <br />In June 2011, property owner, Michael Kinyon, was granted variances to permit the new <br />driveways at five of his side-by-side duplexes to have one and three foot setbacks from the north <br />and south property lines. Mr. Kinyon will be adding attached garages to the rest of his duplexes, <br />one on each end of the building, along with new driveways to replace the existing gravel. The lots <br />are all 100 feet wide so only a single car garage will fit, but the owner is installing new driveways <br />that are wide enough for two cars to park next to each other. Many of the tenants have more than <br />one vehicle, and with the current narrow driveways, they either park or drive off the driveway, or <br />they have to move cars around when someone is leaving. Since there is no overnight parking on <br />the streets in Mounds View, all vehicles must be in the driveways. <br /> <br />The east side of Raymond Avenue has 14 side-by-side duplexes on identical 100 foot wide lots <br />which causes issues when owners want to add additional space or more than a one car wide <br />driveway to these properties. Mr. Kinyon owns ten of the duplexes on Raymond Avenue and <br />received variances in 1995 and 2008 for reduced driveway setbacks when he added garages to <br />those duplexes on the same block. <br /> <br />Discussion: <br /> <br />Mr. Kinyon applied for all five property’s driveway variances in 2011 because the City was <br />reconstructing Raymond Avenue that year, which included installing new curbs and driveway <br />aprons. Mr. Kinyon knew he would not have all five garages and remodels completed for <br />approximately five years, but wanted to have the wider driveway aprons installed during the street <br />project rather than tearing up the new curbs later to widen the curb cut. The City Code states that <br />a variance approval becomes void if the work is not complete within one year, but the applicant <br />may request an extension from the Planning Commission. <br /> <br />Mr. Kinyon was granted a 1-year extension in 2012 and is now asking for the variances to be <br />extended for another year. The Planning Commission was supportive of granting the extensions <br />as long as Mr. Kinyon continues to make progress on installing the driveways. He fully remodeled <br />one of the buildings (including new driveways) and installed driveways on a second property in <br />2012. He intends to remodel another one of the duplexes this year and install driveways on <br />another property in 2013. That would leave only one of the five properties without the new <br />driveways for 2014.
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