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Ms. Stern clarified that the question asked was how far south the garage can be moved <br />while still maintaining an 18-foot long driveway. <br /> <br />Commissioner Blank asked if the original driveway will be maintained. <br /> <br />Ms. Amos said no. <br /> <br />Commissioner Blank inquired whether or not the entire garage could be moved down <br />three feet and whether or not it would shorten the distance between the property line <br />and the property. <br /> <br />Ms. Amos clarified that she was referring to the existing garage, and moving it down <br />three feet would not meet the required minimum setback. <br /> <br />Commissioner Blank requested clarification that moving the existing garage three feet <br />would not meet minimum setback but would be consistent with the required 18-foot long <br />garage. <br /> <br />Ms. Amos said yes, but it would also reduce the street sideyard setback. <br /> <br />Commissioner Pentin clarified that the existing garage is not being proposed to be <br />moved three feet. <br /> <br />Ms. Amos said it was not. <br /> <br />THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS OPENED. <br /> <br />Michael Tolleson, architect/applicant, indicated that the alternative proposal was <br />presented to the Planning staff and generated only for the owners and was never part of <br />the Variance request. He, therefore, requested that it be excluded from Commission <br />consideration. He then presented the history of the house, which was built around 1970 <br />as the model home sales office for the tract, and included the sales office in the garage <br />location on the south adjacent to the entry, a bathroom for employees and buyers built <br />within the sales office, a legal driveway provided between the street and original sales <br />office, and another driveway provided to the west. He noted that the sales office use of <br />the garage is established by historical data, permits, and anecdotal evidence by <br />neighbors in the community. <br /> <br />stems from <br />their reasonable desire for a typical condition of house entry by the garage. He noted <br />that the hardship that this has created for them stems from the placement of the <br />attached west garage, which has no direct access to the house, and which can be <br />achieved only by moving the garage; access to the house from the garage would be <br />between the two bedrooms. He noted that moving the garage by only two feet would <br />not achieve this purpose. <br /> <br />PLANNING COMMISSION REGULAR MINUTES, February 9, 2011 Page 23 of 41 <br /> <br />