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CITY OF VQRTfi OL14STED - EOARD 0F ZOPdING APPEALS Regu? ar Meeting held at City Hall -- A.uoust 5, 1970 The meeting war.s called. to order at 7t40 PoM. by Cha:irman William. Greene. Those present: Mrs. Eian, Itgssrs. Greene, John R.oherts, Ernest Green, Richard Lancashire (Iate) A].so present; Mr. Gundy, Building Cammissioner Nir. Greene a.nnounced that beiore any of the pUbZic hear3.ngs wou?d be he?d, the Board had a request for an interpretation of the Ordinance regarding an open deck on a house under construction on Tennyson Lane. 14r. Gundy stated that his decision on granting a perm3t to Mro Nissiin Com#'orti for the outside d.eck that pratrudes into the mznimum side set back area had been anpealed k, a City Offic3al. He f.irthur exrla3ned that i:f not roofed, he has been perm3.tting decks or porches extending infi,o res.r, front ox side yard set backso The deck in question grotrudes 41 intn a 7-!1F' area is Iocated on a pie-shaped lot. Idr. Dewey Limpert' Counci3.man raisea the question of access into the re3r yard in the event a.ny problem should arisem Discussion was heId. hir. Roberts raoved that as interpr•eted by the Board an outside deck is part of the strueture and that a recommenaation be made to CounciZ that a better definition or code on aecks be written and al.so recoaunending that an archeteeturaZ firm_ be -consulted for apro#'evsionvl opin3:on. He f'urthur moved that in the intere-st of resolv.utg the immedia.te problem as d.uickZy as possable that a 5pecial meeting be held next week, at no cost to Mr...Coraforti, to appeal for a variance if needed. Mr. Ernest Green seconded the mvtion. Unanimousl.y passed, Mr-a Comforti decided tc cut aown the size of the deck which wouZd eliminate the need for a variance request. Mr. Lanca.shis°e arr.ived at the neet3ng at this ti.me. 1. Appellant: JamestoFm Village Apartanents, SE Corner of Brookpark and Coiumbia Roads. Cont3nuation of rEGUest for variance to erect fewer enclosed garages in Phase III of their cievel.opment thm spec3fied by Ordinance #69-210 whi.ch requzres that one-r.eaZf the reeuired parking spaces be enclosed. Present: Mr. Marholius9 Mr. Zeman, Mr. Mass (Attvrn.ey) Mra Moss re-stated the3r reasvns for feeling that a va:riance shoula be grented on the nunber of enclosed. ge-xage spaces requirede He noir_ted out that they object only to enclosed garage Spaceg that aren't needed or used and stressed that they would rather have apen-epace Iandscaping. He also pointed out that there would be no shortage of'-oarking•space - 175 spaces would be provided whereas on1y 124 are required by the ordinar.ce. Ft.irthu-r discussion was held re-garding the 20 vacant garages that were built in an earlier phase of deveZopment. The new orcli$ance requires 62 enc?osed spaces (I24 i;otal) for PhaQe FrI. Mr. Grady, CounciJ.man in whose ward the pro-oosed apart.*nents are Iacated, stated that he was withdrawing lv.s objections stated in the Zet$er read at last month's hea.ring and stated that after Iearn3ng all the facts i.n the matter, he was recomending that the project be sealed off with a f'ence aroUnd the edges of the develoDment where garcge5 do not seal it off. The fence should be attached to the garages w:ith no open space to w?k through. Pdr. West, Council2nan etated that public hear3.ngs ha.d been held on the new ordxnances and that ne builaers objected to the; e chexiges at the public hearings. Aletter from Planning Gornm3ssian was read objecting to any deviation from the ordinance. Discussior_ was held. Using figures. based on the number of garages in earlier phases that remain vacant; Mr.. Ernsst Green movea that a va.riance be granted to al:low a xeduction in number of garages to be bu3lt from 62 to 43. Ftzrthur that this reductiaa taken with it the requirement of a 41 solid fence a,round the perazreeter af.the development not enclosed by exi.sting garage5 and f'3nally that a letter be given the-..Board stating that if additional garages are needed at a later• date, they will be constructeci to aatch exiqting garz.geso Mr. Eian seconded the motiono Unanimously passed.