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Variance Board Meeting City Council Chambers, 2660 Civic Center Drive Minutes - Wednesday, November 02, 2011 - 5:30 p.m. 1. Call to Order 1 Chair Gisselquist 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 City Planner Thomas Paschke called the Roll. 5 Members Present: Chair John Gisselquist, and Commissioners Michael Boguszewski and 6 Peter Strohmeier 7 Staff present: City Planner Thomas Paschke; Associate Planner Bryan Lloyd 8 3. Review of Minutes 9 MOTION 10 Member Boguszewski moved, seconded by Member Strohmeier, to approve meeting 11 minutes of August 3, 2011 as presented. 12 Ayes: 3 13 Nays: 0 14 Motion carried. 15 4. Public Hearing 16 Planning File 11-027: Request by United Properties Residential LLC for approval of a 17 VARIANCE to Chapter 1004 (Residential Districts) of City Code to allow parking stalls 18 between the proposed assisted living facility and the street at 2984 – 3010 Cleveland 19 Avenue (legal description for the property is on file in the Community Development 20 Department) 21 Chair Gisselquist opened the Public Hearing at approximately 5:38 p.m. 22 Associate Planner Bryan Lloyd summarized the request of United Properties for a VARIANCE to 23 construct prohibited parking stalls in front of the proposed assisted living facility. Mr. Lloyd noted 24 that the City’s zoning code attempts to minimize the amount of parking allowed in the front yard, 25 requiring that the bulk of parking stalls be on another side of a building or in a structure. Mr. Lloyd 26 advised that it was the request of United Properties to seek a variance to that limitation of parking 27 in the front yard at the assisted living development next to the new Applewood Pointe building. 28 Mr. Lloyd advised that they are proposing to construct a mix of standard and ADA-compliant 29 parking stalls on one side of a drive lane between the front of the building and Cleveland Avenue. 30 Mr. Lloyd reviewed the considerations for Variance Board consideration in their deliberations 31 regarding this request, and as detailed in the Request for Variance Board Action dated November 32 2, 2011. Mr. Lloyd noted that staff opined that they had determined that this was a reasonable 33 request; recommended approval of the VARIANCE request as presented; limiting surface parking 34 in front of the building at twenty-six (26) stalls arranged on one side of the drive lane in addition to 35 the ADA-compliance spaces permitted by zoning code; which would also be consistent with 36 parking at other developments in the immediate vicinity; and further would accommodate the 37 unique characteristics and of this parcel. 38 Discussion among Commissioners and staff included clarification of the request for two (2) ADA- 39 compliant parking stalls in front of the building north of the main entrance, with another three (3) 40 regular stalls along the side of the building (those three and the ADA-compliant stalls not 41 requiring a variance and therefore not included in this request, with only those not designated as 42 ADA-compliant in front of the building the point of the variance request); ; staff rationale in 43 identifying a number of stalls in staff’s recommendation to memorialize it in the proposed 44 resolution for future reference in the archives in case the site plan is not available in the future; 45 and Building Officials determining, via state law, the number of required ADA-compliance stalls 46 necessary for the size and purpose of the assisted living facility. 47