Zoning - 721, 723 & 725 Howard St

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S [ , f l t A three (3) offices for client interviews. The clinic will be staffed full-time during the 1992-1993 academic school year with two full-time faculty members who direct the clinic and supervise the law student interns who work at the clinic, as well as a full-time office manager. Approximately ten (10) law student interns will work at the clinic at any given time. The clinic will be open between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. At the present time, the units of the building which face Howard Street, with the addresses of 721 and 723 Howard Street, are used as apartments. The current zoning is "A" Residential; however, those units had been a duplex house prior to the effective date of the "A" Residential zoning amendment and are a legal non-conforming use as multi-family dwellings. On October 23, 1986 the South Bend Board of Zoning Appeals granted variances allowing non-contiguous parking for the property and variances from the lot coverage restrictions and set-back requirements. However, the variance granted to allow the use of a non-contiguous parking lot no longer is valid. The change of zoning will require compliance with current off-street parking regulations. The proposed use will require one (1) off- street parking space for each of the two (2) apartment units and an estimated thirteen (13) off-street spaces for the office use. Petitioners will petition the South Bend Board of Zoning Appeals for a variance from the parking requirements to permit use of one two-family dwelling without the required one (1) off-street parking space and to permit the office use with no (0) off-street parking spaces instead of the required thirteen (13) . Petitioners believe there is sufficient on-street parking to accommodate the parking needs for the property and that on-street parking is preferable to locating a paved parking lot in the surrounding residential area.