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Variance Board Meeting City Council Chambers, 2660 Civic Center Drive Minutes - Wednesday, May 2, 2007 1. Call to Order Acting Chair Daniel Boerigter called to order the Variance Board meeting at 5:04 p.m. and reviewed the role and purpose of the Variance Board. 2. Roll Call & Introductions City Planner Thomas Paschke called the Roll Members Present: Acting Chair Boerigter; and Commissioners Jim Doherty and Joe Wozniak. Staff present: City Planner Thomas Paschke; Community Development Director John Stark; GIS Technician Joel Koepp; Associate Planner Bryan Lloyd; and City Engineer Debra Bloom. 3. Approval of Minutes MOTION Member Doherty moved, seconded by Member Wozniak, to approve meeting minutes of April 4, 2007 as presented. Ayes: 3 Nays: 0 Motion carried. Public Comments Acting Chair Boerigter called for any public comment on any non-agenda items. No one appeared to speak. 4. Public Hearings a. PLANNING FILE 07-012 VARIANCE to Request by Gold Eagle Laundry, 1233 Larpenteur Avenue, for a Roseville City Code,§1005 (Business Districts) to allow a parking area drive aisle encroachment into a required side yard setback. Acting Chair Boerigter opened the Public Hearing for Planning File 07-012. Associate Planner Bryan Lloyd provided a bench handout consisting of a revised DRAFT resolution, incorporating an additional condition related to an encroachment “[ agreement. The condition, number 6, read, An encroachment agreement must be signed by the applicant to release the City from any financial liability of the parts o the retaining wall encroaching into the sanitary sewer easement were to ]” be damaged while working within the easement. Mr. Lloyd reviewed the request to allow site improvements and parking area modifications, including a drive lane that would encroach five feet (5’) into the required five foot (5’) setback at 1233 Larpenteur Avenue, as detailed on the staff report dated May 2, 2007. Mr. Lloyd noted that a continuous asphalt paved lot from one lot to the next with neighboring properties is an existing, nonconforming condition, and a cross- access agreement exists between these adjacent property owners allowing unrestricted circulation between the properties as well as access to Fernwood Avenue, Mr. Lloyd further noted that another nonconforming condition, a fourteen foot (14’) setback from the Larpenteur Avenue right-of-way, existed in the parking area,.