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STAFF REPORT DATE: July 15,"1997 TO: Planning Commission Members FROM: Kim Moore-Sykes, Management Assistant ITEM: 97-05 Rear Yard Variance Request Reliance Development Company, L.L.P. Gas/Convenience Store with Car Wash BACKGROUND: Mr. John Trautz, representing Reliance Development Company, submitted an application for a 12 foot Rear Yard Variance Request to he City in order to construct a gas station/convenience store/car wash on Lot 4, Block 1, Apache Plaza. This variance request was published in the local newspaper and neighboring property owners were notified of the request as required by law. Mr. Trautz is now requesting that his 12 foot variance request be withdrawn and instead, is seeking site plan approval from the Planning Commission and the City Council of his proposed gas station/convenience store and car wash as allowed by the amendment to the City Ordinance relating to the Minimum Setbacks and Signs in Shopping Centers,, Section 1635.05 with the addition of a new Subdivision 8, and amending Section 1400.04, Subdivision 27, as adopted on February 25, 1997 and published on March 5, 1997. Subdivision 8 states, "The minimum yards set forih in this Section 1635.05 will not apply to any lot line of a lot in a shopping center if (i) the lot line adjoins either -another lot within the shipping center or a driveway.or parking area within the shipping center, and (ii) the Council has approved a site plan for a building to be constructed on the lot with a different setback from such lot line. In such cases, the setback approved by the Council shall apply so long as the building exists on the lot." "For purposes of this subdivision, a "shopping center" means any group of four or more retail or service establishments totaling a minimum floor area of 75,000 square feet, on one or more contiguous tracts of land in single ownership, or in multiple ownership but subject to a reciprocal easement agreement governing common access and parking."