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t Planning Commission Meeting Minutes June 21, 2005 Page 2 1 • Page 11, line 4,reads: `19 Russian Olive trees were removed.'; should read: `19 Russian 2 Olive trees were added.' 3 4 Commissioner Jensen: 5 • Page 9, line 23, reads: `building design or the text amendment.'; should read: `building 6 design without the text amendment.' 7 8 Vice Chair Hanson: 9 • Page 9, line 29, reads: `Vice Chair Hason'; should read: `Vice Chair Hanson' 10 11 Motion by Vice Chair Hanson, second by Commissioner Jensen, to approve the meeting minutes 12 of the Planning Commission of May 17, 2005 as amended. 13 14 Motion carried unanimously 15 16 VI. COMMUNICATION WITH CITY COUNCIL 17 6.1 Designate a Planning Commission member to the June 28, 2005 City Council Meeting. 18 19 Chair Stromgren stated that the Commission would discuss designating a Planning Commission 20 representative for the next City Council Meeting on June 28, 2005, after the meeting. 21 22 VII. PUBLIC HEARING. 23 24 7.1 2513 West Armour Terrace NE—Petition of Variance, Rear Yard 25 26 Chair Stromgren opened the public hearing at 7:07 p.m. 27 28 Ms Moore-Sykes stated that this is a request by Mr. John Kaczmarczyk for a variance to the rear 29 yard requirements of the City Ordinance to construction a 26-foot by 30-foot garage in the rear 30 yard setback of his property. She stated that the property is located at 2513 West Armour Terrace 31 and is currently designated as R-1 zoning. She reviewed the property layout stating that this 32 residential interior lot is approximately 10,106 square feet and is 20-percent covered with 33 impervious surfaces and the proposed garage would increase the lot coverage to 28-percent. She 34 explained that because the proposed garage is too large it would not be eligible for a garage 35 setback permit as allowed by Section 1650.02, Subd. 6. She further explained that the applicant 36 is looking to build a garage approximately 780-square feet in size and the City Ordinance 37 requires that the garage would not cover an area larger than 528 square feet and have no 38 dimension greater than 24-feet within either a side yard or rear yard setback. She noted that the 39 applicant has been advised that the garage setback permit is for a smaller garage and it was noted 40 that the applicant would prefer the larger size. She stated they discussed moving the proposed 41 garage forward 10-feet to comply with the 25-foot rear yard setback and Mr. Kaczmarczyk 42 reported that moving it forward would bring the proposed garage to within 5-feet of his existing 43 back porch, which would be in violation of the State Fire Code, which requires a 6-foot clearance 44 between structures. She stated that Mr. Kaczmarczyk also reported that having 15-feet between