Board of Zoning Appeals - Regular Meeting

I'll call this July 14th, Board of Zoning Appeals, meeting to order. First, Pledge of Allegiance.

Pledge of Allegiance.

To the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

David, you want to do roll call?

Brian Kager.

Present.

Mark Danielson. Vicki Gushrowski. Here. Nate Laux. Pete Saunders. Here. Three present.

Approval of minutes from May 12th.

I'll make a motion to approve.

Seconded. Motion is second. All in favor? Aye. Motion passes. Um, we only have one petition tonight with a petitioner. Please step forward and state your name and address and the reason for the petition, please.

Name is Lloyd Anderson, address 108 Grove Street, here in La Porte. Um, application for variance to put a carport up on my property next to my garage. I got an old truck and I'd like to put it up underneath something, kind of take care of it a little bit. I'm a woodworker and I got a bunch of wood. Sure.

Staff, do we have any questions? No. So this time I'll open it up for public comment. But stating there is no other public here, I'll close public comment.

Phew.

Uh, David would like to give the city's review.

Yeah. So item number five is variance of development standards. 26 dash zero seven petition is to exceed the maximum accessory building area and it's requesting 1,480 square feet. Um, this property is located at one Oh eight Grove street as is indicated on the map on the screen. The petitioner proposes to allow a 16 foot by 28 foot carport on this property on the subject property. This property is about it's three separate parcels as you see there is about 0.35 acres in size and is currently zoned R1D single-family residential district and has single-family residents as well as a detached garage a small shed and Another garage on the property that's closer to the house on the east side But I did also make all three of those into one parcel now. Yeah, I Thanks for the correction. Yes. So the three parcels are now one parcel. I'm just stating for the record. Thank you. I forgot to mention that. The section 7.04, which is the single family residential guidelines, shall be met for the property in terms of setbacks for the structure. The petitioner is only requesting the size increase to be able to allow the carport size as was mentioned. Site review is not required for these. types of requests the board is to be guided by three decision criteria of which I'll just briefly note one the approval will not be injurious to the public health safety morals and general welfare of the community and just going through some of the the photos that I took of the site the next slide if shows where the carport will be located on the property as you can see it's right next to the detached garage on the just to the east of the house or north sorry I'm all flipped around backwards southwest it's it's upside down yeah so southwest of the detached garage which is right next to the existing house on that same property this property the size of the carport and the total accessory building area is comparable to a couple of the properties in the immediate vicinity a couple of blocks away there's a range from 120 square feet all the way up to 1500 square feet. There's a property with a similar type lot arrangement which has like a three stall garage with an extra stall. And so that's the 1500 square feet. So the proposed accessory building size is comparable to the existing accessory building and carports on similar residential properties. Two, the use and value of area adjacent to the property will not be affected in a substantially adverse manner. This proposed carport for the 16 foot by 28 foot addition on top of what is already there will not negatively impact the use and value of adjacent property because the carport will be used for personal storage of vehicles. And the sizes of buildings are similar in size and type of buildings on similar residential properties. Three, the strict application of the terms of the zoning ordinance will result in practical difficulties in the use of the property. The strict application of the zoning ordinance to limit the size of the accessory building to a maximum of 721 square feet on 0.35 acres will constitute... practical difficulty or reasonable use of the property for storing personal vehicles and other property maintenance equipment on the property so staff finds that the proposed accessory building size is comparable to the existing buildings on residential properties within the immediate vicinity on the of the subject property so staff recommends approval of variance of development standards petition 26-07 and i'll be glad to answer your questions thank you

What building materials for this? What are you going to make? Pardon me? How are you going to construct this?

It's just a steel temporary carport. It sits on top of the ground.

Okay. In keeping with everything else around it.

Pardon me?

In keeping with the other buildings around it. Right, right.

Before I bought that property, it used to have a six unit apartment building on it and a four unit apartment building on it. Yes, I was going to... That lot was like totally covered with a building and I didn't think for a second that there would be even a question about putting a small carport out. There you go thinking again, huh?

Yes, I was going to say thank you for turning the property into what it was or what it is now from what it was because I believe the building had a fire, right? Yes. Yes. You've turned it into a beautiful piece of property. I try. I try.

And if anybody just tries, they can make something better. That's always been my philosophy. Any questions?

Anyone want to make a motion? Yeah, I'll make a motion to approve.

I'll second.

Motion and a second. All in favor?

Aye.

Aye. Motion passes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. Item number six, old business. Seven, new business. Eight, other business. Item number nine, adjournment.

I'll make a motion to adjourn.

Seconded. Motion to second. All in favor?

Aye.