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Variance Board Meeting City Council Chambers, 2660 Civic Center Drive Minutes - Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - 5:30 p.m. 1. Call to Order 1 Chair Gisselquist called to order the Variance Board meeting at approximately 5:30 p.m. and 2 reviewed the role and purpose of the Variance Board. 3 2. Roll Call & Introductions 4 City Planner Thomas Paschke called the Roll. 5 Members Present: Chair John Gisselquist, and Commissioners Michael Boguszewski and 6 Peter Strohmeier 7 Staff present: City Planner Thomas Paschke; Associate Planner Bryan Lloyd 8 3. Review of Minutes 9 MOTION 10 Member Strohmeier moved, seconded by Member Boguszewski, to approve meeting 11 minutes of May 2, 2012 as amended. 12 Corrections: 13 Page 1, Line 32 (Strohmeier) 14 Typographical correction: “VARIANCE” 15 Ayes: 3 16 Nays: 0 17 Motion carried. 18 Member Boguszewski noted that, at the last Variance Board meeting and as reflected in the 19 meeting minutes, the Board and he opined that a review of the current standard square foot 20 limitation uniformly applied to all properties throughout the City should be reviewed. Member 21 Boguszewski noted that the Board asked staff to get the wheels in motion to review the 22 underlying methodology; and where it was appropriate to bring up to start this review in motion. 23 Associate Planner Lloyd advised that staff had not taken that into consideration since that 24 meeting; but had other code amendments they were recommending for next month’s meeting 25 thought to be of a higher priority. Mr. Lloyd advised that, since this was not a priority as the 26 problem hadn’t been encountered frequently, the review would be added to a future Planning 27 Commission agenda to start the discussion process. 28 Member Boguszewski recognized that it may not be a pressing issue; however, he noted that he 29 didn’t want it to get lost in the process; since underlying principles could apply and tie to the scale 30 of property affected rather than a standard formula, possibly a tier system. 31 City Planner Paschke duly noted this requested review as a future Planning Commission agenda 32 topic. 33 4. Public Hearings 34 Chair Gisselquist reviewed meeting protocol for Public Hearings. 35 a. Planning File 12-015 36 Request by Ryan Lowder for approval of a VARIANCE to Chapter 1004 (Residential 37 Districts) of the City Code to allow a reduced accessory building setback from the 38 rear property line at 1468 Centennial Drive 39 Chair Gisselquist opened the Public Hearing at approximately 5:37 p.m. 40 Associate Planner Bryan Lloyd provided a brief review of the request for placement of a 41 storage shed as close as two feet (2’) from the rear property line to fit in the space 42 between the back yard fence and the existing, mature trees, requiring a VARIANCE to do 43 so. Details of this review and recommended staff approval were detailed in the Request 44 for Variance Board Action dated September 5, 2012. 45