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LJ PLANNING REPORT DATE: CASE NUMBER: APPLICANT: LOCATION: ACTION REQUESTED: • 4 March 1987 1729 Peter S. Luzaich Southwest Corner of Rice Street and County Road B2 Variance to Building and Parking Setback PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS: 1. This property is zoned B-3 and has been occupied by a one story wooden frame building housing a combination rear hall and restaurant. This building has existed since the Township era preceding the formation of the Village in 1948. Attempts have been made to consider reuse of the existing building, but you will note from. the attached drawing showing "the existing conditions" that the structure is roughly ' in the middle of the property, making it difficult to provide adequate parking on the site. The structure is also substantially substandard and dilapidated. 2. The current buyers of the land propose to construct a 3,200 square foot, two story office building on the site to house a real estate operation owned by the applicant. The site is extremely small and will measure 110.44 feet of the frontage of County Road and 109 feet of frontage on Rice Street. These dimensions will apply after 16-1/2 feet of frontage is dedicated along Rice Street as required by City policy. Dedication of the 16-1/2 feet, of course, makes the site even smaller than it was and creates considerable hardship in attempting to utilize the property in an efficient and reasonable manner. 3. The proposal presented is to build a two story office building in the southwesterly corner of the site, adhereing to the required 10 -Foot setback for the side yard along the south property line. This side of the property is contiguous to a medical clinic which was built approximately ten years ago. The location to that structure and its contiguous parking to the property in question is shown on the "existing conditions" drawing attached. The building is located within 6 feet of the westerly property line, contiguous to a residence owned by John Andert. Mr. Andert has provided a statement (a copy of which is attached) approving the variance. The letter, you will note, indicates his approval of a variance of 6 feet. Because this west side is theoretically the rear of the property, the normal setback is 20 feet. The parking required for the structure at 5 spaces per 1000 square feet equals 16 spaces. A total of 1.8 spaces are provided.