Special Exception - 1750 Willis Avenue

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7 4). From the requirement of providing perimeter landscape deciduous trees at a minimum spacing of 40 feet on-center along the North, and East property lines to providing no trees. 5). A Variance from the Minimum required Frontage 50 ft. for a Parcel Zoned MFl and 60 ft. for a Single-family Lot on a Public Right-of-way to a Minimum of 57 ft. on Willis Avenue. 6). A Variance to allow an Accessory Visitor Parking Lot that does not contain a Primary use. THIS REAL ESTATE IS COMMONLY DESCRIBED AS: 1750 Willis Avenue, South Bend, Indiana 46637. The Petitioners are the owners of the real estate parcel shown on the attached site plan and as shown in the records of the St. Joseph County, Indiana Auditor's office. The Petition property presently has a Zoning classification of "MF1" Urban Corridor Multifamily District. The owners of Parcel "A" are in the process of constructing their residential development. This property was recently annexed and rezoned to allow for an eight-unit residential townhome development. The original owner had gone through those procedures to create the development. The present owners purchased the property, but desire to take the recently approved project and create Single-family attached townhomes. They would like to be able to allow any contingent purchaser to buy one of the shown townhomes on a legal lot of record, instead of a condominium or a rental property. In order to create individual Lots for each residential townhome, the petitioners discovered that there are several procedures that must be approved. After discussions with the Building Department, it was decided that in order to create individual Lots for the Single-family attached townhomes, a Special Exception Use was required to be approved to allow for that use within the "MF1" Urban Corridor Multifamily District, and a Special Exception Use is also required for the Accessory Visitor parking area on shown parcel "I". Also in order to create the individual lots as shown, several Variances are required for each Parcel which run from Variances for Side and Rear Yard Setbacks to Frontage Variances, Building Lot Coverage Variances and Lot Size Variances. The number of Variances shown, are numerous, but that is due to the fact that the Petitioners are attempting to create Nine (9) Legal Lots of record. As shown Parcel "I" will remain in common ownership by the owners of all Lots within this development. It will be transferred to a Property Homeowners Association. This Association will maintain the shown paved areas, visitor parking area, and several common ownership maintenance issues, such as building roofs, siding, painting, brick work, pavement repair and snow plowing. The Homeowners Association will also be responsible to maintain the landscape areas on all lots.