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Variance Board Meeting City Council Chambers, 2660 Civic Center Drive Minutes - Wednesday, August 01, 2007 1. Call to Order Vice Chair Jim Doherty called to order the Variance Board meeting at 5:00 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: Vice Chair Jim Doherty and Commissioners Barbara Martinson and Thomas Gottfried. Member Absent: Chair Daniel Boerigter. Staff present: City Planner Thomas Paschke; Associate Planner Bryan Lloyd; and Mike Darrow, Short Elliott Hendrickson, Inc. (S.E.H. Planning), Interim Community Development Director, City of Roseville. 3. Approval of Minutes MOTION Member Martinson moved, seconded by Member Doherty, to approve meeting minutes of July 11, 2007 as presented. Ayes: 2 Nays: 0 Abstentions: 1 (Gottfried) Motion carried. 4. Public Hearings a. PLANNING FILE 07-043 Request by Santos Escobar, 175 Burke Avenue, for a VARIANCE to Roseville City Code, §905 (Swimming Pools) to allow a swimming pool to encroach into the required setbacks from the side and rear property lines. Vice Chair Doherty opened the Public Hearing for Planning File 07-043. Associate Planner Bryan Lloyd reviewed the request of Mr. Escobar for installation of an above-ground pool at 175 Burke Avenue, with the proposed pool encroaching five feet (5’) into the required ten foot (10’) setback from side and rear property lines. Mr. Lloyd noted that the property had two (2) major utility easements: one in the front yard for a water main and one in the rear/side yard for sanitary sewer. Mr. Lloyd advised that decks and gazebos are not permitted within utility easements without a signed “encroachment agreement.” Mr. Lloyd further noted that the existing attached deck and gazebo were constructed within the sanitary sewer easement; however, the Public Works Department has no such document on file. Staff, therefore, recommends that it would be reasonable to allow the pool and decking to be built over and have footings within the utility easement if the applicant were to enter into an encroachment agreement. VARIANCE to Roseville City Staff recommended APPROVAL of a five foot (5’) Code,§905 (Swimming Pool Location) to allow the installation of a pool in the proposed location; based on the comments and findings of Section 5 and the conditions of Section 6 of the project report dated August 2, 1007.