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• • <br />Page 2 of 5 <br />Zoning Board of Adjustment <br />Staff Report of 7/27/95 <br />V95-003 <br />The business proposed for the facility is Natole Turbines, an <br />engineering/consulting firm that will also stock and sell turbine parts. The <br />business is best described by S.I.C. number 8711. This S.I.C. listing is a <br />"Permitted" Business Industrial Use. As proposed the facility will, with the <br />exception of side setback along the south side of the property, satisfy all <br />applicable City ordinance requirements including: <br />. Setbacks (front, rear, and side) <br />. Lot coverage <br />. Landscape <br />Driveway <br />Parking <br />. Drainage .__ <br />. Fire separation from neighboring properties. <br />The only question at issue is that of side setback on one side of the property. <br />Zoning Ordinance, Section 7-600 establishes a side building setback of 30 feet. <br />Rather than center their building on the tract, the applicants are proposing <br />to shift it to one side for the purpose of creating a more efficient parking and <br />maneuvering layout. The applicants, citing the relative narrowness of the <br />tract, are requesting the variance for the purpose of facilitating this design. <br />Analysis: ~ ~ This request is a variance. Ordinance Section i1-606.2 defines a variance as: <br />A deviation from the literal provisions of the Zoning <br />Ordinance which is granted... when strict conformity to <br />the Zoning Ordinance would cause an unnecessary <br />hardship because of the circumstances unique to the <br />property on which the variance is granted. <br />The Ordinance continues with the charge to the Board to only grant variances <br />in cases where it finds that all of the following criteria have been satisfied. <br />That the literal enforcement of the ordinance will result in <br />unnecessary hardship because of exceptional narrowness, <br />shallowness, shape, topography or other extraordinary or <br />exception physical situation unique to the specific piece of <br />property in question. "Unnecessary hardship" shall mean <br />physical hardship relating to the property itself as distinguished <br />from a hardship relating to convenience, financial <br />considerations, or caprice, and the hardship must not result <br />from the applicant or property owner's own actions; and <br />