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. Chairman Wilson and ~nbers of the Commission • City of LaPorte Page 17 ' ordinance be amended to allow parking "in all. .`set-back areas". This section of the ordinance does not prohibit parking in any particular set back area, and in deed the ordinance as a.,whole only prohibits parking in set-back areas in the case of parking lots of five or more spaces that directly abut a residential _ district (in which case the ordinance requires that the parking lot be screened from the abutting residential district), or in the case of property being located on a designated parkway, no use shall be provided, including parking within twenty (20) feet of the parkway right-of-way. These are the only two instances in the whole ordinance in which parking and .set-backs conflict. The design standards and criteria established. in this ordinance are much more 1 iberal than our current parking. design standards and requirements. Further, from a standpoint~of legal liablity, the City of La Porte must require driveway and parking lot design to specifically mitigate the chances of vehiculuar accidents so that the City of La Porte would not be in a,liability=posture in the case of accidents that could be attributed to poor driveway design. . ANALYSIS: Do not amend section 10-605 of ,the Ordinance. 33) Section 11-101: Citizen imput on this section indicates that developers issued building permits prior to the effective date of this ordinance should be allowed to continue their construction as per the building permit which they were issued. This section :states that construction must begin within a six month period. If it is not the building permit is void. This comment is taken directly from the building code and in no way prevents current construction from continuing if permitted before the effective date of the ordinance. ANALYSIS: Leave this section as written. 34) Section 11-102: Citizen comment requests that, this section of the ordinance, which deals with the expiration of building permits issued under this ordinance and the Southern Standard Building Code adopted by the City of La Porte be deleted. The ordinance provides that the failure to commence any work described in a building permit issued under this ordinance within 180 days from the': date of issuance of the permit, causes building permit. to expire and be cancelled. This requires the applicant to apply for and be issued a new building permit prior to subsequent commencement of work. It should be noted that this language is copied ~~erbatim from the standard building permits currently issued by the City of La Porte under the terms of our current ordinance no. _ 780, the Southern Standard Building Code that has been adopted by the •