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To insure that your comments and recommendations will be considered by the Meridian City
Council please submit your comments and recommendations to Meridian City Hall
Attn: Will Berg, City Clerk, by: August 29, 2002
Transmittal Date: August .5, 2002 Hearing Date: September 3, 2002
File No.: VAR 02-011
Request: Request for a variance to parking ordinances and landscape ordinance
for the Designing Team Salon
By: The Designing Team Inc.
Location of Property or Project: 1226 East 2 1/2 Street
David Zaremba, P/Z
Jerry Centers, PIZ
Leslie Mathes, P/Z
Keven Shreeve, P/Z
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Planning & Zoning Department
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VARIANCF APPl ICATION
(RE: Meridian Zoning Ordinance - 11-18, Meridian Subdivision Ordinance - i 2-11 )
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Item/45)
The Designing Team: Variances-- We cannot comply with the following ordinances:
1. MCC 11-13-3D: "Parking In Setback Area". This section of code prohibits the
parking of vehicles in the setback areas when adjacent to residential uses.
2. MCC 11-13-4F: "Off-Street Parking Design and Dimensional Tables". This section
of code provides minimum parking dimension requirements.
3. MCC 11-13-4B3a: "Screening". This section requires a four foot fence or wall
adjacent to parking (in this case, the driveway).
MCC 12-13-12-4: "Minimum Buffer Widths". The proposed use is a class III use
and the neighboring single-family dwellings are class I, thereby requiring a 20'
landscape buffer between uses.
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The relatively small size of the lot prevents compliance with the minimum parking, and
landscaping requkements
Item #7)
The designing team is providing the required number of parking, but we cannot meet the
minimum 19 foot long stall length or the 25 foot wide driveway aisle width requirement.
The lot will only accommodate 9'x16' parking stalls with a 22' driveway aisle.
The lot will serve only Designing Team customers, and because it is located in the back
of the lot we feel that it will not we feel that the parking will not impact other
developments.
The landscaping requirements for a 20' foot wide buffer adjacent to the adjoining
residential uses needs to be reduced to a 4' wide requirement. We have proposed
numerous 3" caliper trees and will provide shrubbery within reduced landscape buffers.
Item #8)
If the aforementioned ordinances were enforced fully on the subject property it would
become impossible to develop the property in the proposed manner, and would require
significant changes to the existing building and site layout.
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The small size of the lot (90'x130' approx) and the location of the home in the center of
the lot are peculiar circumstances affecting this property.
Item #10)
See Items #8, and 10 above.
Item #11)
The property is an existing developed home, and if it is ever to be renovated into
anything other than a single family residence special consideration will need to be made
for approval. If the property where a bare piece of grotmd it may be possible to design
the property in conformance with the ordinance, however we are attempting to keep the
historical feel of the area by remodeling the existing home. Other properties in the area
may soon be in the Old Town Zone (this property is assigned as such under the new
Comp Plan), and would be eligible for special consideration in the future.
Item #12)
The location of the existing home and the narrow (read small) lot are not the result of
any action on our behalf.
Item #13)
We do not believe that the issuance of a variance(s) to the aforementioned ordinances
will grant any privilege to use that is denied (by ordinance) to any other similarly zoned
properties.
Item #14)
The issuance of the variances will allow us to bettex serve our customers and will allow
us to remain as a positive asset to the Meridian business community.
Item #15)
The Current comprehensive plan designates this property as "Existing Urban" and as
"old Town on the proposed Comp Plan. There are a number of statements in the plan(s)
that support business growth and expansion in Meridian.
I, Patty Gillaspy, will post the property at least 7 days prior to the public heating.
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June 4,2002
To Whom it May Concern:
Calvin and Susan Reed are selling their property located at 1226 ½ St. Meridian, Id. 83642 to
the Design Team, Inc., and are aware that the purpose of the Design Team is to open a beauty
salon.
Sincerely. .~ ,~...~...;'?""
Susan Reed ~ '~ - ~-igate