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Board of Adjustment Meeting <br />November 10, 2016 <br />Pfeiffer Landscaping Variance <br /> <br /> <br />allowing for the business to grow. The applicant <br />intends to provide the full amount of required <br />landscaping, but would prefer it to be along the <br />perimeter of the lot. <br />The parking lot will only be utilized by staff and <br />th <br />will not be visible from 16 St. <br />b. That literal enforcement of this chapter will Parking lot planters are a key part of city <br />result in unnecessary hardship because of beautification and help reduce the heat island <br />exceptional narrowness, shallowness, shape, effect created by large impervious surfaces. <br />topography or other extraordinary or <br />As stated, the applicant is not requesting a <br />exceptional physical situation unique to the <br />reduction in the number of required trees, but is <br />specific piece of property in question. <br />requesting the variance to place them in a more <br />"Unnecessary hardship" shall mean physical <br />convenient location. This will still allow for a <br />hardship relating to the property itself as <br />number of trees to be added to the site but <br />distinguished from a hardship relating to <br />without disrupting the flow of cars and truck <br />convenience, financial considerations or <br />throughout the development. <br />caprice, and the hardship must not result from <br />the applicant or property owner's own actions. <br />c. That by granting the variance, the spirit of this The variance will allow an industrial development <br />chapter will be observed. to forego parking lot trees and instead, allow <br />them to plant them along the perimeter of the <br />lot. These will serve as not only shade trees, but <br />also will screen the lot from surrounding <br />properties. The requested variance will have little <br />to no negative impact on the surrounding <br />properties. <br /> <br />Appeal Procedure: <br /> <br />Any person or persons, jointly or severally, aggrieved by any decision of the board of adjustment, or any <br />taxpayer, or any officer, department, board, or bureau of the city may present to a court of record a <br />petition for a writ of certiorari, as provided by V.T.C.A., Local Government Code § 211.011, duly verified, <br />setting forth that such decision is illegal, in whole or in part, specifying the grounds of the illegality. Such <br />petition shall be presented to the court within ten days after the filing of the decision in the office of the <br />board of adjustment. <br /> <br />ATTACHMENTS <br /> <br />Exhibit A: Application <br />Exhibit B: Area map <br /> <br />