03-10-14 Council Agenda & Packet

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PETITION FOR A COMBINED HEARING City ofSouth Bend. Indiana I the undersigned make application to the City of South Bend Common Council to amend the zoning ordinance, to grant a Special Exception Use as herein requested and to the Area Plan Commission to grant the following variances: 1) The subject property is located at: 1912, 1918 & 1924 Edison Road, South Bend, Indiana 46617 2) The property Tax Key Numbers are: 018 -5148 -5538 018 -5148 -5539 018 -5148 -5540 3) Name and address of property owner of the petition site: PA Sergio Properties, LLC C/o Paul Sergio 1918 Edison Road South Bend, Indiana 46617 1 -574- 287 -8900 4) Name and address of contingent purchaser, if applicable: N/A 5) It is desired and requested that this property be rezoned: From: "SF -1" Single Family District To: "OB" Office Buffer District 6) This rezoning is requested to allow the following uses: The expansion of the Dentist Office with the expansion of parking lot to accommodate his increasing cliental. 7) If applicable, a detailed description and the purpose of the variances being requested: The requested variances are to allow, by the individual requests, the expansion of the Dentist Office and the accommodation of the cliental parking area - from the required 8' side yard setbacks for lots 15A, 16A and the east line of lot 17; and from the required minimum 15' side yard residential bufferyard for the west line of lot 17 to a 1' side yard setback for the east line of 15a, to 0' for the west line of lot 15A and both the east and west lines of lot 16A and 0' for the east line of lot 17 and 1' for the west line of lot 17; - from the required 15' rear yard residential bufferyard for lots 15A, 16A and 17 to a 5' rear yard residential bufferyard for lots 15A, 16A and 17; - from the required 1 parking island to 0 parking islands; - from the required 24' drive aisle to 23.6' for the parking spaces on lot 17; - from the required rear residential bufferyard parking screening to allow the existing 6' vinyl fence to remain on lots 15A and 16A and to be extended across the rear yard of lot 17; - from the required type B landscaping for the front yards of lots 15A, 16A and 17 to type a landscaping; - from the required side residential bufferyard screening for the west line of lot 17 to allow the proposed 6' fence and partial type a landscape screening as shown on the site plan; 8) A statement on how each of the following standards for the granting of variances is met: (a) The approval will not be injurious to the public health, safety, morals and general welfare of the community: As no request being made is of any purpose other than to expand said Dentist Office and increase the parking lot. (b) The use and value of the area adjacent to the property included in the variance will not be affected in a substantially adverse manner; and: as any screening variances requested are still being affectively screened by a 6 foot high fence line.