Planning and Zoning Commission - Regular Meeting

can we go ahead and get started even though it's not quite four o'clock up there yeah okay so we're going to go ahead and call the meeting to order at 4:00 on January 23rd 2025 this is the town of Parker Board of adjustment and appeals and we'll begin with the Roll Call of the board chairman Marshall here Vice chair hartm mitz president via Zoom member Thorne here member lesty here member Robinson here thank you going to call to order the public hearing and today's on daa is BOA 01 -225 block 115 lot 5 and six APN number 31120 D31 the address is 1300 9th Street and the zoning is office transitional the request is for a zero setback from the required 5- foot rear property line setback on the 9th Street in order to build a 28 by 75t shop that the applicants are Martha Maison and Luis Alonso um they're requesting the setback reduction uh to in order to leave six feet from the their house to the shop this time we would ask [Music] for staff report thank you thank you good afternoon so the applicants um have asked for proposed to build build a shop at the above referenced parcel um proposed construction plan for the Northwest side of the existing dwelling the above ref referenced parcel

is located within the town of Parker at the lot is generally located on the west side of the Mojave Avenue and Ninth Street the lot is a single parcel double lot 100 by 150 um they town of Parker General plan design the land use as office transitional the 205 adopted zoning ordinance identifies the lot within the this parcel to be zoned residential the property is um Bound by mix that doesn't make sense um surrounded by mixed use of residential and office transitional the reiew team Public Works had no objections joint venture had no objections and Southwest GS had no objections to this um findings required for approval the permitting use in um office transitional primary the single family and or two Family Residence dwelling units the intent of the district is to PR preserve and encourage the development of a variety of um attached and detached housing units while maintaining a small scale neighborhood feel maximum lock coverage of structures is 70% side and rear setbacks must be no less than 5 feet and the front setb must be no less than 20 feet setbacks have a number of purposes they provide uniform to the neighborhood and determine relationships between structures setbacks allow for a measure

of privacy between neighbors provided space for light and air circulation distance between neighbors to mitigate noise and odors setbacks also encourage the adequate room in available for emergency services and utility workers to access properties as needed variances are may be great granted when circumstances of the property such as the size shape or location prevent adequate use of the property or the Restriction applied for the zoning ordinance will divert such Properties or privileges afforded to other property owners adjacent properties with similar developments meet established setback requirement no apparent hardship has been determined in the reference of this variance application thank you open for any questions that you may have any questions from the board about the staff report no at this time we would ask if anyone from the public wants to address the board regarding the project or does anyone on the board have any questions for the Builder is here yeah so he wants to do two garage doors that's why the 28 foot width but he can't get the 28t width without pushing it too close to the house so that's why he was trying to get the zero lot line and we realize it have to be like double 58 drywall so it has a 2hour fire rating and that so other than that I don't think you have any other neighbors

complaining I have a question right that's where um regards to this are the double doors going are they going to be facing the alley no they're going to be facing the street I don't remember what the cross street is to 9th mve mve yeah the two double doors would be facing Mojave I have a question what's the what's the setback on the um the apartments next door are we going to have enough room between the garage and the apartments next door it's 6 feet I yeah I I don't think it is from the property line the building to the apartments six feet I personally measured it okay that's it and that's and on the mob side go ahead and this the the garage is going to be to zero on the lot line on on this property correct okay any more questions

if not we could adjourn the public portion of our meeting and move to the regular we could call to order the regular meeting and begin with the approval of our minutes from the June 27 2024 meeting that we're not in the package they sent us but are at the back of the package for everyone to read I want to look that over I make a motion to approve the minutes of the June meeting I'll second the motion it's been moved and seconded all those in favor I I any opposed and a motion carries thank you our other item before the board is to approve or deny the uh boa 01- 2025 the zero setback from the required 5 foot rear property line really the side of 9th Street in order to build a shop and leave six feet from the house to the shop is does anyone want to make a motion we need a a motion on the floor in order to make discussion three foot setback possibly um make the motion and then let's discuss it motion for a three foot setback a second motion so we can disc

I'll second the motion okay now we can have discussion about that so um does anyone have anything they want to say I'd like to point out that that's what we did last time for this very same thing and I think we don't want to set a precedence other than than that for so we talking on theback not from the alley side but from the apartment side right from the yeah from the long side of the correct the alley side they'll stay at the five feet that they're currently at okay he'll still be able to get a 16 foot garage door if you can do one garage door yeah yeah he wants to do two doors and it's I've been going round and round for months over this so here here we are trying to get the variance just uh fire safety is is just where we're at on that I think in reality exactly so the motion on our floor then if everyone is is looking at that is not granting the five but granting a three so you can still get a bigger building than what you wouldn't would get otherwise so is there any other discussion if not we have a motion and a second all those in favor I I I any any opposed okay motion carried and uh that we can have call to the public again if we need to if not we'll have a motion to adjourn at 4:15 so move second thank you everybody we're