Agenda Date: July 17, 2017
Subject:
Title
COA for a Garage Addition at 5647 South Louthan Street
Body
Presented By:
Dennis Swain, Senior Planner
APPLICATION SUMMARY:
Project Name: Garage Addition
Historic Name: Servey / Stevens / Burt Residence
Application Type: Certificate of Historic Appropriateness
Location: 5647 South Louthan Street
Historic District: Louthan Heights
Contributing/Non-Contributing: Contributing
Applicable Design Guidelines: Louthan Heights Historic District Design Guidelines
Applicants and Owners: Douglas and Kathleen Albrecht
Project Description: Expand the garage by adding a wing for storage and replace the existing one-car garage door with a two-car door
Staff Recommendation: APPROVAL
PROCESS:
Per Section 4-6-14(A)l(a), a COA shall be obtained from the Historical Preservation Board (HPB), in conformance with any applicable adopted design guidelines, and in addition to any other permit or other approval required by this code for any designated historic landmark structure or any property in a designated historic district.
Before the COA application process could be initiated for the expansion of a garage at 5647 South Louthan, two zoning issues had to be addressed. First, the zone district in which the property is located, R-3, requires that accessory structures, such as a garage, be set back 10' from an alley. The prevailing setback along the Louthan / Crocker alley, including the setback of the existing garage is 0'. Applying the required setback would seriously impact the function and design compatibility of the garage expansion and create a large unusable space behind the addition. Further, the design guidelines call for retaining the original building setback.
The second issue is that the R-3 zone district requires that each lot have at least 50% unobstructed open space, which the code defines as; "An area upon which no structure may be erected or surface area utilized for stora...
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