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Variance Board Meeting City Council Chambers, 2660 Civic Center Drive Minutes – Wednesday, July 9, 2014 – 5:30 p.m. 1. Call to Order 1 Chair Boguszewski 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 At the request of Chair Boguszewski, City Planner Thomas Paschke called the Roll. 5 Members Present: Chair Michael Boguszewski; and Commissioners Robert Murphy and 6 Shannon Cunningham 7 Others Present: Alternate Variance Board Member Jim Daire 8 Staff present: City Planner Thomas Paschke and Senior Planner Bryan Lloyd 9 3. Review of Minutes 10 MOTION 11 Member Murphy moved, seconded by Member Cunningham to approve meeting minutes 12 of June 4, 2014 as amended. 13 Corrections: 14  Page 1, line 7 (Murphy) 15 Indicate that Commissioner Murphy was present. 16 Ayes: 3 17 Nays: 0 18 Motion carried. 19 4. Public Hearing 20 PLANNING FILE 14-015 21 Request by Michael Ahmann for a VARIANCE to Section 1004.02 (Accessory Buildings) of 22 Roseville City Code to allow a detached garage to be constructed in excess of the 23 maximum floor area at 2926 Old Highway 8 24 Chair Boguszewski opened the Public Hearing for Planning File 14-015 at 5:35 p.m. 25 Senior Planner Bryan Lloyd summarized the request as detailed in the staff report dated July 9, 26 2014, to allow construction of a new detached garage at a size of 896 square feet to meet the 27 needs of today versus when the current garage was built, estimated to be in the early 1940’s; as 28 detailed in the staff report and site plan written narrative detailing the proposal included with the 29 report as Attachment C. 30 Mr. Lloyd reviewed staff’s analysis of the request, and advised that staff was subsequently 31 recommending approval of the requested variance by adopting Variance Board Resolution 105 32 approving the proposed accessory structure floor area to equal the 816 square foot footprint of 33 the principal structure at 2926 Old Highway 8, based on comments and findings outlined in this 34 report, and subject to conditions as noted in the staff report dated July 9, 2014. 35 While agreeing with staff’s conclusion that the small size of this older home should not be the 36 anchor weighting the garage down at 85% of the principle structure, Chair Boguszewski opined 37 that even limiting size for the new structure at 100% of the principle structure seemed arbitrary, 38 when the applicant originally requested variance approval to construct the new garage at 896 39 square feet, Chair Boguszewski further opined that the difference in requested and proposed 40 square footage seemed restrictive. 41 Chair Boguszewski provided pictures provided he’d taken earlier today in his review of the site, 42 noting that the existing garage was not visible from the street or even the street frontage until 43 actually accessing the property. Therefore, Chair Boguszewski opined that removing the 44 condition and allowing construction at the full 896 square feet would not harm anything and still 45