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Council Minutes of 4/4/06 conditional use category for medical offices serving both on-site and off-site elderly patients. It appears this was inadvertently left in the Whereas clause; however, it was previously removed from the legislation. He inquired of the Law Director whether this would require another amendment. Law Director Dubelko replied it does not require an amendment. It's not substantive. The provisions that would have provided for the conditional use were deleted in a previous amendment. It should have been caught but was not. The deletion can be made by the Clerk to make sure the Whereas clauses match the substantive clauses in the legislation. In answer to a question by Mr. Miller, the Law Director said the language would be deleted in the legislation voted on this evening. Mr. Gareau further explained the deletion was part of the motion to amend as styled at the special Council meeting when that section was removed in its entirety. • Ordinance 2006-8, an ordinance amending Section 1135.02 of the Zoning Code in order to permit larger detached accessory storage buildings on one-family residence district lots that are one acre or greater in size. This ordinance was conceived by Councilman Gareau and drafted with assistance of the Law Director and Planning Director. The purpose was to create a tiered system which would apply to accessory structures on residential property. An accessory structure is a storage facility, garage, shed, etc. The code currently uses a kind of a one-size- fits-all approach to storage sheds with the same size permitted on the smallest and largest lots in the city. The Planning Director has it is a very common matter to come before the Board of Zoning Appeals. When it comes before the Board or Zoning Appeals, very often the variance is granted. There are a number of people who live on Bradley Road who have lots that are of this type. We are trying to create a tiered system that will work and allow people to better use their property without having to come through the variance process, at the same time ensuring they don't impose upon their neighbors. On imposing on the neighbor's side of it, as originally introduced, we envisioned a 7S0 square foot, 1 S high foot structure on the largest of lots. It was pointed out that was very large structure, so it was decided that was not the way to go. The Planning Director went out and examined the structures and recommended a tiered system which the legislation will be amended to include. She gave a presentation which explained in detailed what we have versus what was proposed versus what it will be under the current code. The tiered system is broken down into lots by quarter acre, half acre, one acre, two acres and over two acres. The maximum building size would be 80 square feet for a quarter acre; a half acre would be 120 square feet; one full acre would be 200 square feet; one to two acres would be 300 square feet; above two acres would be 400 square feet. The permitted maximum height changes a little, but it only goes from 8 to 10 feet, which you would expect as the building gets larger. The code also detailed that accessory buildings aver 200 square feet in size are required to be constntcted on a masonry cement foundation and meet the drainage requirements of the engineering department. The other changes that were included 1135.02 (d) dealt with the total area of the detached garage, accessory storage building and other accessory structures such as a deck, swimming pool or gazebo shall not exceed more than 20p/o of the rear yard area 9