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Variance Board Meeting City Council Chambers, 2660 Civic Center Drive Minutes – Wednesday, April 6, 2016 – 5:30 p.m. 1. Call to Order 1 Chair Murphy 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 Murphy, Senior Planner Bryan Lloyd called the Roll. 5 Members Present: Chair Robert Murphy, Vice Chair James Daire, Commissioner Chuck 6 Gitzen, and Alternate Variance Board Member Michael Boguszewski 7 Staff Present: Senior Planner Bryan Lloyd 8 3. Review of Minutes 9 MOTION 10 Member Gitzen moved, seconded by Member Daire to approve meeting minutes of March 11 2, 2016 as presented. 12 Ayes: 3 13 Nays: 0 14 Motion carried. 15 4. Public Hearings 16 Due to his involvement on the Board of Directors of his cooperative that occasionally does 17 business with United Properties, Chair Murphy recused himself from this discussion and turned 18 the gavel over to Vice Chair Daire to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest. 19 PLANNING FILE 16-009 20 Request by United Properties for a VARIANCE to Roseville City Code, Section 1004.06.H 21 (Surface Parking) to allow construction of the proposed Applewood Pointe of Roseville at 22 Central Park, located ta 934 Woodhill Drive and 2659 Victoria Street 23 Vice Chair Daire opened the Public Hearing for Planning File 16-009 at 5:35 p.m. 24 Senior Planner Bryan Lloyd briefly reviewed the applicant’s request and staff’s analysis as 25 detailed in the staff report and related attachments dated April 6, 2016. Mr. Lloyd advised the 26 United Properties proposes to construct a mix of standard and Americans with Disabilities Act 27 (ADA)-compliant parking stalls in the front yard lying adjacent to Woodhill Drive. Mr. Lloyd noted 28 that the proposed parking in this area would occupy more than 40% of the lot width, and therefore 29 not be in compliance with City Code as outlined in the staff report (lines 12 – 16), but would 30 address a site-specific need for this project, and include resident and visitor parking for the facility 31 and adjacent Ballfields. 32 As a point of information, Member Gitzen asked how the “primary” street was defined, in this case 33 Woodhill Drive. 34 Mr. Lloyd advised that the primary street was defined as that anticipating the most pedestrian 35 traffic. With the adjacent multi-family properties to the west and the single-family neighborhood to 36 the north, as well as another assisted living facility project in the planning stages to the north, Mr. 37 Lloyd noted that a significant portion of people would be accessing adjacent to Woodhill Drive 38 versus Victoria Street that was more of an auto corridor. 39 At the request of Vice Chair Daire, Mr. Lloyd clarified that this project is for a senior cooperative 40 resident and not an assisted living facility. 41 Applicant Representative Alex Hall, United Properties 42 Mr. Hall agreed with staff’s written report and verbal overview, noting that the requested variance 43 was based on two primary issues. 44 1) With the partnership with the City of Roseville for shared ballfield parking, Mr. Hall noted that 45 put a requirement forward to increase the number of parking stalls for typical project like this. 46 Mr. Hall noted that the only way to meet the surface parking spaces with that shared parking 47