License and Variance Board - Regular Meeting

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We are August 12, 2026. This is the Council of Licenses and Derogations. We have an official point in the order of the day. Point A.V. 272. This is a public audience on a derogation request. To reduce the southern lateral back of 12 feet to 10.5 feet, at the low 313 clean drag. Mitch Carroll, demandeur. Demandeur is present.

One day, the judicial services and I will agree on the concerned side. Let me adjust a little bit. Very good. Thank you for your patience. Hello, Kaitlin Crowe from Community Development. As you have just read, this is the V26. To reduce this southward decline of 12 feet to 10 and a half feet. So this property is on Cloudland Drive in the Benetwood lot. It contains an existing individual house with a water pump area and a 20-foot existing sanitary sewer service right at the bottom of the property. Demanders want to completely renovate the existing house, including some interior work, the addition of a front porch, a garage in the front and an extension in the back. This will therefore be a complete renovation of the house. La maison actuelle a été construite en 1969 et empiète déjà sur le recul latéral sud environ deux pieds. Le demandeur cherche à prolonger l'extension arrière, presque dans l'alignement de la propriété, mais pour maintenir la dérogation minimale requise, ils vont la décaler très légèrement. Il s'agit donc d'un empiètement d'environ un pied et demi sur ce recul latéral. Now, since this property was built in 1969 and that the impoverishment is already present, the difficulty is not self-created in this case, because of the location of the house on the ground, it will not impoverish on the tampon areas of the corridor, nor on this service of sanitary sewage and they are well below 35% of the permeable surface coverage on the property. Thus, no other derogation is necessary for this property. Personnel a reçu à la fois une intervention en personne, je suppose, ainsi qu'un email concernant des préoccupations liées aux eaux pluviales sur la propriété au sud. Notre équipe d'ingénierie a examiné cela et a déterminé que cette dérogation ne causerait aucun impact néfaste sur cette propriété au sud. J'ai également Clara Hodges, ici notre réviseur des plans d'ingénierie, si vous avez des questions spécifiques à ce sujet. This being said, the staff supports this request and recommends your approval under the usual condition that the approval of the requested derogation be subject to a substantial conformity with the site plan and the elevations submitted with the request for derogation. On this, I am ready to answer your questions.

May the applicant approach. Did you understand the presentation made by Kate Are you aware of the stipulation imposed for this derogation? To respect exactly this request, this situation?

Yes. To follow exactly the site plan? Absolutely.

Do you have anything to add?

Thank you for making it so easy.

It's not over yet.

It's good. I can say I'm not used to such a service. You are great.

Do you need anything?

Everything I need at the moment. This is a public hearing concerning this derogation request. Yes, my name is Michael Wedley, CEO of Wedley Enterprises USA Inc. and we own the property at 3540 Cloudland Drive.

One thing that worries me is the additional impermeable surface that is proposed for this property. Regarding the sewage, creating more sewage, on April 6, 2020, I was contacted by my tenant complaining that water was boiling in the front garden. J'ai contacté le plombier qui a déterminé que la conduite d'eau n'était ni cassée ni en fuite, ce qui relèverait de la ville. Ensuite, j'ai contacté les services publics de la ville de Smyrna qui ont envoyé une équipe immédiatement. Ils ont testé l'eau pour déterminer qu'aucun chlore n'avait été trouvé. They then went to test the water in the outside tap to see which one showed chlorines because the test tube turns pink if it contains chlorines. In conclusion, I was told that there was a flowing underground source from the property at 31928 Cloudland Drive and above and I am at the bottom, towards the bottom of the 31940. And that, it shines like a geyser when it rains very hard and it is transformed in time. Let's see, so I contacted Gilles Head. I'm not trying to be difficult or to pose a problem, but the 3940 Cloudland Drive has antecedents of water flow problems. And I'm worried about what will happen when there will be no more impermeable surface on this property at 3928. You know, for the structure on this property, I received a text from the asker or the owner and he indicates that he wants to add 882 square feet of additional impermeable surface on the property and in the notes it is indicated a slope of 30 inches or less to avoid the need for a ramp or So you level more land and I already have a problem there and I just don't want to have to have more water coming up, you know. I have an invoice from the entrepreneur in Plomberie who came to carry out the test to determine that it is not the water of the city and that it was the water that was infiltrating from Laval because the 31140 is located at the low point and there is the stream that stretches the south side then goes back around well I guess it goes down from the back then flows along and crosses Claude Landry so I'm already at the low point and that's my only concern

Clarify a few points that have been raised in your presentation. Katelyn mentioned that this property was below the limit of 35% of impermeable surface. Correct.

It remains around 22%.

It is around 20% only after the complete construction. And these projects, the gentleman who just spoke and the asker, are they both connected?

Other questions?

I will examine. A motion on, let's see, as no one else wants to take the floor, I close the public audience. And I examine a motion concerning the request for derogation V2000072 to reduce the southern lateral retreat of 12 feet to 10.5.

I'm sorry, Claude Landry. We have another point at the end of the day concerning the approval of the proceedings.

Approbation of the verbal trial of the meeting of the Council of Licenses of July 22, 2026.

Demand a motion. Press. That. Another case is submitted to the Commission of Derogations.

The hearing is at 10 o'clock.