12-29-11 Zoning Board of Adjustment

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r ISM 11010 FACTS RELA VENT TO THE NATTER The owner has permitted and is developing a new residence with an attached garage and a detached garage on one acre of land located at 1718 Roscoe Avenue. The attached garage is for automobiles, while the detached garage is for small, single person watercraft, lawn equipment, and other miscellaneous maintenance equipment. In addition to these two structures, the owner is proposing to build separate, accessory structure to beep a larger boat on the property. The accessory building is intended house and store the boat from public view. The proposed accessory building is designed to aesthetically blend with the main residence and will incorporate many of same; building materials. The structure will be located in the rear, comer portion of the lot more than 30 feet behind the main residence and has 10 foot setbacks at the rear and side property Lines in an effort to retain the trees in close proximity. The square footage of structure is 998 sgft and is not more than 25% of the total rear yard. The access to the accessory building will be from Lobbit Avenue. TYRE OF RELIEF BEING SOUGHT Section 106 ®741 -b states that any accessory building may not exceed 15' ®0" in height. We ask that a variance be made to allow this accessory structure a maximum height of 19' -6 ". According to Section 106 ®1 `Definitions', the height of a building -with a roof exceeding 2.5:12 pitch, shall be measured to the average point of the slope, We calculate the height of this structure, having a roof pitch of 5:12, at 19'6" to the roof slope's average point, To keep within the spirit of the Code, this proposed accessory building's height conforms to the requirement that any detached garage not exceed 20' -0" in height. GROUNDS FOR THE REQ -USTS Since a detached garage is already proposed and permitted near the main house, this structure shall be classified as an accessory building according to the Code of Ordinances.. In order for the owner to use this accessory structure to park his boat, while on trailer, the door height must clear 14' -4" The accessory building design requires that the roof structure be raised above the door's clear height. Taping into account the framing, roof structure and 5:12 roof slope, the overall average roof height is 19' -6 ", which exceeds the maximum allowable by 3'6 ". Unfortunately, the physical dimensions needed to achieve clearances give us no other option other than to request a variance.