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May 17, 2022 <br />Page 4 <br />Scenario 2 – Typical single family home - Lot with Alley Access <br />In this scenario, 4 possible (but usually smaller) expansions could be considered <br />A – A reduced front yard expansion toward the street, to a distance of 20 feet rather than the required <br />30 feet. An option with this change would be to only allow one-half of the building width to encroach, <br />rather than the entire width of the house. This change would create a visual impact on the streetscape <br />view of the neighborhood. Because there is no driveway access to the front, however, on-site parking is <br />not an issue for these front yards. <br />B – As with Scenario 1, an option to expand into the side yard of the home to create two 5-foot wide <br />side yards, rather than the 5 feet and 10 feet minimums that typically apply. Again, this change would <br />have an impact on the overall spacing of houses on any particular block. See note in Scenario 1 as to <br />expense. <br />C – This option would permit the rear expansion of the home to create a rear building expansion, even <br />to the extent of creating an attached garage out of the existing detached garage. The issue raised by <br />this option is how the City might treat the rear building expansion in Scenario 1, which would require a <br />15 foot setback (if considered as proposed), but here a newly-attached garage would be set at a 5 foot <br />rear setback from the alley. One reason lesser alley setbacks are often allowed is that the building <br />separation from the house to the rear is not as great, with the alley separating the two properties. <br />D – This option is similar to that of item B if livable area is permitted to expand to the side to a 5 foot <br />setback. Detached garages are already allowed to be constructed with a 5 foot side yard.