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Memo to Board of Adjustments October 28,2003 Page 2 • Zoning/Land Use C3,Highway Commercial/HB,Highway Business Existing Conditions The subject property is 38.60-feet wide at the narrowest point and 49.40-feet wide at the widest point. It is approximately 200-feet long. It lies between Railroad Drive and the Burlington Northern Railway and bounded on the east by Jackson Avenue. The current zoning is C3 (Highway Commercial)which has the following setback requirements: Front...25-feet Side...30-feet Rear...40-feet Given that the widest part of the property is 49-feet and applying the required front and rear yard setbacks which together total 65-feet,there is no buildable property available anywhere on the site without granting a variance. Overview • The applicant would like to add a 2,047 sqft addition to the west end of the existing building. In order to accomplish this, a variance of some form or another will need to be granted. His desire is to build the addition to the lot lines on the south (rear) and west (side). The addition will help modernize the facility as well provide the additional space needed for the growing business. The addition will help overcome health and safety concerns, as the current building does not have any restrooms, so employees/customers have to run across the street to utilize the service station's restroom facilities. The current zoning of the property is C3,Highway Commercial. Staff feels that this zoning classification is inappropriate for the property, as it does not have any highway frontage. The lot might be more conducive to being zoned C1,Central Commercial,which utilizes zero lot line setbacks, for both building and parking,which would allow this proposal to happen without a variance. Parking and Circulation The proposed addition will require four additional parking stalls. The proposed layout shows six additional stalls,however, none of the stalls meet the 10-foot set back from the property line. In fact,three of the stalls overlap the property line and access is directly onto the street with all six stalls. The required amount of parking stalls for the footprint of the entire building, including the • addition,would be 12 cars. Even without the proposed addition,the property does not have S:\PLANNING\Case Files\2003\V 03-04 Marty\V 03-04.DOC