Special Exception - 1832 Campeau St. South Bend, IN 46617

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n ,. Area Board of Zoning Appeals -October 6, 2010 JOSEPH R. & KATHLEEN C. CRIMMINS The petition of Joseph R. & Kathleen C. Crimmins seeking a Special Exception to allow an accessory dwelling and from the maximum allowable 17' height to 21' 10" for an accessory building and from the required 6' side yard setback to 3', on property located at 1832 Campeau Street, Portage Township. Zoned "SF1". MR. CRIMMINS PASSED OUT PAPERWORK TO THE BOARD AT THIS TIME MR. JOSEPH CRIMMINS: I am the owner and live at 1832 Campeau Street and we moved into this property in the summer of '08 with the intent of adding on and bringing my father into the house. My 87 year old father has been and I also have a special needs child. The staff I know recommend an unfavorable recommendation to the City Council and I'm asking for the opposite. You are aware of course that the neighborhood is conducive to student rentals primarily due to the proximity to the university and all the other universities in town but as clearly stated and the staff has acknowledged that they understand that our intent here is really for our son Nicholas when he becomes a little bit older so that he has a place to be somewhat independent yet under watchful eyes of us. So that's our intent. Seeing that the Board has approved other structures similar most notably John and Katie Anthony's which you will see further back in the papers that I just handed out today on Country Club Lane. And if you golf at Morris Park you'll probably see their house and they built that structure, I don't know exactly but within the last two years and it was there about the same time we moved in. Of course Mr. Peacock has something similar on Colfax. Dr. Harris has a structure on 1324 E. Wayne Street South, if you look farther back in the pictures you'll see a garage that appears to have a living area above. MR. HAWLEY: That's Devon Circle. You said Wayne Street South. MR. CRIMMINS: Wayne Street is some additional pictures. And then of course Frank Perry property on Coquillard. So I looking at it from a precedence and the standpoint that we're looking at this long term. We don't have any immediate plans (COULD NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT HE SAID) but we had to build a garage as part the construction project of the addition so or replace the garage because the garage was termite invested and we had to move it back anyways. With regard to it not being consistent with the neighborhood, I don't know that I agree with that because we hired an architect and an architectural design group and they are doing other work with the City currently with the triangle neighborhood just south of Eddy Commons and some other things. So their thought with regard the design and architecture and streetscape, the building is in keeping with the architecture of the house itself, Cape Cod and I think they did a great job. MR. PHIPPS: Work is started, at least it appears to be, you say you tore down the old garage and you built a new garage? MR. CRIMMINS: Yeah we had to. If you look, I don't know if you have the site plan or not, because of the addition we had to move back the garage. We would have had to replace the garage anyway because the garage was structurally termite invested. MR. PHIPPS: Was that all included in a building permit for the addition and a garage or was there a separate building or did you not get a building permit? MR. CRIMMINS: We got a permit for the entire project from the get go and the site plan. 40