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BoardofAdjustmentRegularMeeting <br />January22,2015 <br />TurnerVariance <br />Residential,andcontainsanexistingsinglefamilyresidentialhouse.Thefollowingtable <br />summarizesthesurroundingzoningandlanduses: <br />ZoningLandUse <br />bƚƩƷŷ LI,LightIndustrialUnionPacificRailroadPropertyleasedbytheapplicant <br />{ƚǒƷŷ R1,LowDensityResidentialVacantresidentiallotandexistingsinglefamily <br />residential(11030HoustonDr.) <br />‘ĻƭƷ R1,LowDensityResidentialVacantresidentiallot <br />9ğƭƷ R1,LowDensityResidentialVacantresidentiallot <br />ApplicableCodeProvisions: <br />Section106333,stipulatesresidentialarearequirements,includingsetbacksintheR1District. <br />Thefollowingisanexcerptfromthatsectionasapplicabletothisvariancerequest(see <br />highlighted): <br />Sec.106791.ΑFrontyardareas. <br />Nofences,structures,grading,orbarrierhedgesshallbepermittedwithinanyfront <br />yardareasexceptinthecaseoflargelotresidentiallots,orinthecaseoflotswitha <br />frontyarddirectlyadjacenttotheshorelineofGalvestonBay,asprovidedinsection <br />106792. <br />Analysis: <br />Section106791oftheZoningOrdinancedoesnotallowforfencingtobelocatedinthefront <br />yard.Thefrontyardistheareabetweenthefrontoftheprincipalbuildingandthefrontlotline, <br />whichinaR1zonedistrictistypicallya25footsetback.Theapplicantisrequestingapprovalof <br />avariancetoretainafencewithinthefrontyardalongthepropertylinethatwasconstructed <br />withoutapermit. <br />AlthoughtherearenotothersimilarfrontyardfenceswithintheBattlegroundEstates <br />Subdivision,theapplicanthasauniquesituationinthatheleases269acresoflandadjacentto <br />hispropertyfromtheUnionPacificRailroad.AccordingtoSection106791,iftheapplicant <br />ownedmorethanoneacreoflandthenavariancewouldnotberequired.Howeverinthiscase, <br />theapplicantdoesnotowntheland,heleasesit. <br />Section106192oftheZoningOrdinancestatesthatthetermͻǝğƩźğƓĭĻͼrepresentsadeviation <br />fromtheliteralinterpretationofthecodeapprovedbytheBoardsubjecttothefactthat <br />enforcementoftheprovisionsofthecodewouldcauseanunnecessaryhardshipbecauseof <br />circumstancesuniquetothesubjectproperty.TheBoardisauthorizedtograntavariancewhen <br />theBoardfindsthatanumberofcriteriaaremet.Thefollowingtableoutlinesthosecriteriaand <br />ƭƷğŅŅ͸ƭanalysisofthosecriteria. <br />2 <br /> <br />