12-09-1993 Public Hearing and Regular Meeting ZBOA

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FORREST SERVICES, INC. INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL SANDBLASTING. PAINTING P.O. BOX 1702 LA PORTE, TEXAS 77572 PHONE: (713)471-6107 FAX (713) 471-7360 February 3, 1994 Zoning Board of Adjustment City of La Porte La Porte, Texas 77571 Dear Sirs: I am requesting a variance that will allow me to place a building 15 feet from the south property line. This building will be used primarily for equipment storage and possibly for doing some inside painting. There will be no lights in the building. If any work is performed after dark, we have portable, explosion proof lights that will be used. All plugs, fan motors, etc. will be explosion proof. Fans will be installed on the outside of the building and will run through a water separator to take the impurities out of .- the air. The reasons that I need to have the building 15 feet from the south property line are: 1. It will keep the building in line with our present driveway to bring the equipment in. 2. We have employees who frequently park their cars on the inside of the fence on the north side when they are working out of town for a week or more at a time so that the risk of having their cars stolen is minimized. 3. We have compressors, trucks, trailers, large portable buildings, sand hoppers, air dryers, etc. that have to be parked there when not out of the yard on a jobsite. 4. At times, we have to store sizable amounts of pipe and we must have room for the forklift and/or other lifting equipment to move around and load or unload pipe. 5. We have large compressors and portable buildings that have to be lifted onto trailers for transporting to a jobsite and that takes quite a lot of space. Due to the narrowness of the property, even locating the building 15 feet from the property line will leave us with the bare minimum of space required on the north side of the property. Thank you for your consideration. '1>,* tw<<A James Forrest