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Item No: 5B Meeting Date: June 7, 2006 Type of Business: Public Hearing City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Mounds View Planning Commission From: Heidi Heller, Planning Associate Ga age at 7025 Introduction: Jim and Amy Wilson, are proposing to construct a new garage attached their house located at 7025 Pleasant View Drive. The house was constructed in 1947 d ements are addressed in Section 1104.01 of the Zoning Code. Each zoning istrict is listed with the corresponding front, side and rear setbacks. In an R-1, Single Family s attached to their home. Until cently, there was a single car, 13’x32’ detached garage on the property that was 8.5’ from follow the one on the house which slopes to the front nd back yards, so any water runoff would not be running towards the neighboring house. ions: d, the applicant needs to demonstrate a hardship or practical ifficulty associated with the property that makes a literal interpretation of the Code overly Item Title/Subject: Public Hearing and Consideration of a Variance to Allow a Reduced Side-Yard Setback for a r Pleasant View Drive; Planning Case VR06-002 The applicants, to and was placed approximately centered between the side property lines. Mounds View Zoning Code requires that the living area of a home is ten (10) feet from the side property line with a garage being allowed to five (5) feet from the side property line. The requeste variance is for three (3) feet, which would put the garage two (2) feet from the side property line. Discussion: Setback requir d Residential district, the typical building setbacks are as follows: Front, thirty (30) feet; Side, ten (10) feet; and Rear, thirty (30) feet. It is noted that sheds and garages, attached or detached, can have side and rear setbacks of five (5) feet. The applicants desire to construct a new, larger garage that i re the side property line. The property owners will remove the shed that is currently on the property when a new garage is built. The roofline on the new garage would a The house to the south is 14½ feet off the property line with a four foot privacy fence between the houses. Variance Considerat For a variance to be approve d burdensome or restrictive. Minnesota statutes require that the governing body (the Planning Commission, in this case) review a set of specified criteria for each application and make its decision in accordance with these criteria. These criteria are set forth in Section 1125.02, Subdivision 2, of the City Code. The Code clearly states that a hardship exists when all of the criteria are met. The criteria are as follows: