Plan Commission - Regular Meeting

Sarah Pay here. Here we have Hello. [clears throat] Okay. Do you have an opportunity to read the minutes from the last meeting? Yes. Any modifications, corrections, etc.? Nope. I have a motion. Move to approve minutes for the November or correction, the October BCA meeting as staff presented. All in favor? Oh, may I have a second? All in favor? I I No changes. [clears throat]

If you have a pager, please turn it off. [laughter] You have Adri. Okay. Uh, no old business. Great. Moving right along. New business. We'll open the public hearing for BZA standard varants. Come on down. [laughter] Okay. What's wrong with this computer? 2025-015 staff report. Thank you. Uh James Kataret, city planner for Auburn. This request this evening, it was an application filed by uh Mike Aliva. He's representing the property owner, uh Jeremy Bowers, uh who's requesting a development standards variance for uh the property located at 407 West Enley. Uh the request is to allow an increase in the maximum lot coverage uh for the property uh to allow an addition uh to the south side of the existing building. The property is highlighted uh there on your map. It's on Enslay. It's just to the west of of Indiana Avenue. Uh this request required a public hearing that we did advertise in the star back on November 5th and there were five adjacent property owners sent notice. Very hard to see this drawing here. I should have copied it a little bit darker, but the the addition is proposed to the south uh side of the building. It's a 24 by 36. It's actually a twotory addition. The building currently is one one story. Uh the property itself is zoned residential. Um it's zoned R2 as well as all the surrounding zoning. Um to the east, west, and north is uh residential. to the south uh is uh industrial. A few photographs of the building. Uh this is the building itself. They have made some

improvements to the building. All new windows in the building. Uh this is coming from uh Ensley Avenue. Uh this is the rear of the building. So this is where the addition would be constructed basically in line with the existing building going straight back. One more view. This is along the uh east property line looking at the side of the building. Obviously, it was a commercial building, commercial used at one time. This is just showing an aerial of the building. Again, you can see the the grass area and back and along both sides. Uh the addition would go again towards the uh towards the uh the south. I didn't receive any public input from all of our notice and and legal notice. Um the the the addition itself will be used for uh additional area for expansion of uh there's some personal fitness equipment. So the property owner uses it. It's personal property. Um it's actually very nice inside. They've done a really nice job uh redoing the inside of the structure. The um it's used for personal gyms. Got a lot of different gym equipment within the within the building itself. doing the addition so we can have some additional rooms for the equipment as well as some storage areas and that's kind of the purpose uh for the second story addition as well to the building. If he's agreed the variance the building would still be 35 ft from the south property line so exceeding what that minimum setback is. The building would stay in line with the current building. So that's allowed no matter what the setback is. you could stay consistent with the existing building, which is what they'll be doing. Uh the for the property itself, the maximum lock coverage that's allowed is 40% and that's determined by uh the amount of coverage by the building and then that parking area in front. If you saw that photograph, they got a large

asphalt [clears throat] parking area between the building and Ensley Avenue. Um so only 40% of the lots allowed to be covered with u imperous surface. The request if granted would uh bring it up to 52% of lot coverage. Uh the applicant did submit proposed findings for your consideration as well and staff has submitted findings for your consideration. as we looked at the uh request the addition again it's on the the rear of the building so you're really not going to uh it's going to extend it's not going to extend any closer to the side property lines as I mentioned the uh increase in lot coverage is still at 48% grass area still have the grass areas along the side of the building that's not changing there's still quite a bit of grass area in the back we don't think the the change isn't going to be noticeable losing the grass area it's not going to be noticeable from the street. If you were on those adjacent properties, you might notice, you know, a little bit less grass area in the back. Um, but those two property owners um had have not uh submitted any kind of concern or issue with the request. So, as we looked at it, we thought it was a reasonable request and we do recommend that you accept the staff proposed findings that we've submitted and approve this various application as requested. conclude staff report.

Questions, comments? Thank you very much. Thank you. Would the please come forward, state your name and address by your last name and add anything you'd like.

I'm Michael Alavville. Represent Jeremy Bowers. Uh my my own address is Auburn or 1305 Culver Court in Auburn. Uh pretty much all we're trying to accomplish here is just pretty much gaining more room. Like Jim said, we've remodeled the inside of the building. We've struggled over the last two years trying to find use of this building. We've tried to do a couple different options and they've all been denied by the neighbors. Luckily for me, none of them showed up tonight to deny this one. So, uh, pretty much what it is is, you know, he's has his own personal gym. Just pretty much him and his friends and family members use. And we bought an Anytime Fitness that went out of business, took all the equipment, put it in there. I wish I would have included some pictures of the inside so you guys could see it because it does not do it justice looking at it from the outside. Is very ugly. But the inside is very very nice. I wish I would have included some, but we just pretty much outgrew it already. We soon as we filled it full of stuff, it outgrew very fast. And so we're just trying to make it bigger and just have more room so we can add more equipment and make it a little bit more usable. Right now, I'm sure the neighbors aren't happy because we use the rear for storage. Right now, this will take a lot of that storage away on the outside and make it a lot nicer. And once we do have the add-on done, we will be finishing off the rest of the building and making it all look nice and everything. And like Jim said, we've tried to Yeah. Well, we're trying to make the outside look a lot prettier than what it is. Obviously, it is very very ugly. But it looks like it it's abandoned, but you know, luckily we've saved it from, you know, being tore down or something like that. So, just trying to add the extra. So, I think we're allowed 12 foot already. We're trying to get the extra 12 foot to make it 24. Just have the allowable space and everything. So,

it looks like the back of the building will sort of be in the same line as the building on your right and left. Yep, pretty much. I'll say I mean they're the neighbors next to us their lot coverage is crazy but they also have a double lot so I really can't say much but yeah I'll say they're we try to you know be very friendly with the neighbors so I I'm glad none of them showed up because we always try to make sure to be extra extra respectful to them and stuff so but yeah I'll say and then being a second story you're only going to see the roof line from the road where the roof line will be pretty much right at the peak of what the building is now and then that's all you're really going to see other than minus a couple little corner pieces but just trying to improve it instead tearing it down and just turned it into abandoned lot. So, anything else from me? Any questions? Nope. Was there overall elevation change?

What's that? I can't quite tell the the second story add-on. I didn't see an elevation on there. Uh the inside ceilings won't be more. I believe we were only planning on like 8 foot ceilings in there. So, the second story is not going to I think the max I think the height of it is going to be I think 20 foot roughly to the bottom of the sit. Then probably I think it's six foot to the peak depending on what type of pitch we go with. That's all determined down the road. We didn't really dive too deep into it just because we didn't want to get our hopes up again. That's got to be pretty close to already the height of that building.

Yeah, it'll be a little bit taller than the existing building just because the pitch they have there is a 612. So it's a little bit steeper for what it is, but the other h the other roof will kind of be um not in line with it'll be the opposite direction. So kind of be a T on the roof line. So it'll stick the roof will stick up higher than the existing [clears throat] peak, but you that's all you're going to see. You're going to see saw fit and maybe two foot of siding and then some corner pieces. So Okay, great. Will look a lot better. [laughter] Thank you. Thank you guys. Thanks. Since there's nobody else in the room, I assume there's nobody else that wants to speak on the project. I'll close the public hearing [clears throat] board discussion. Good use, easy.

Glad it's going to be painted. I was going to say glad to see the less than quality appearance of the building be uh be raised to standard. So that's good to hear. Okay historic [laughter] I do have an old picture of it. Mr. Bosworth we have the findings of that worksheet for 407 west. Well, yes. [music] Yes.

Yes. I have a motion. Move to approve BZA standard variance 2025015 as presented by staff. Second. All in favor? I I You got one passed. Hey, hey, we're I think we're three for five, so I'll take it. Good luck. You just got to keep coming back. There's hope. Keep trying. Depending on the use. We have any other business meeting next month. Okay, great. And we do election of officers in January. In January. Yep. or the first meeting we'll have in in the new year. Okay. Yeah. Great.

You all have a great holiday. Thank you. You too. Happy Thanksgiving. Somebody move to adjurnn. Second. All in favor? I. Thank you, Brky. I didn't realize