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. ' Board of Zoning Appeals - .lanuary 18, 2007 <br />MR. DANCI-I: And we understand that particular requirement. I was talking to John Byorni also just before <br />the meeting slatted and if that's the case probably the one that would cause a problem would be outlot A that <br />we would be extending the lot lines up and through, that's where our landscaping is going to be on the <br />perimeter boundary. I think they are going to be okay with Parcel I because that has the parking on it and that <br />is the one that guarantees access for all these individual units so I don't think that will be difficult. <br />MR. SASSANO: I need to ask one question and I'll try to ask as quickly as possible. When I read this I <br />thought one of two things, either A our language In OUI' ZOning Is JUSt, we missed that. Why can't you have a <br />single Family townhouse. The first paragraph for the zoning for multi family urban corridor says the <br />development standards are designed to promote the establishment of multifamily dwelling projects including <br />apartment, townhouse and row house style development. This is clearly a row house style development but <br />then Otl the OlhGl' hftnCl they almOSl Seelll t0 pUl'pOSCIy eXCIUde Slagle fanllly. SO I'm thinking to myself here, <br />what am I missing here? <br />MR. FOZO: They're excluding a single family residence sitting out that we don't think in the -i)ixed use if <br />you're dense area that a single family might not fit into a street side mixed use. Do you understand... <br />MR. SASSANO: Single family. I'm not talking about detached dwellings ... <br />MR. FOZO: I know it and let me continue. That is what they were looking at in malting a Special Use is if <br />you allow a single family as a permitted use, you could have a residence built in the middle of your two story <br />mixed use. Very dense city urbanized area. So that is why it addresses it. The townhomes if they were rental <br />units and it's all connected absolutely wouldn't need any type of variances. Even though they ace townhomes <br />and even if you go the condo they are still a multi family. <br />MR. SASSANO: Why aren't these townhomes? What is a townhome? <br />MR. FOZO: A townhome is just an upper lower. Villas, townhomes, condo's, and David we can talk about <br />this for an hour, are the most missed used terms in the country. Villas, there are no such things They are a <br />marketing tool the realtors came up with to charge more for certain units and have some outside maintenance <br />with it but it's a single family home. But anyway in order to do this, this can come through what has already <br />been issued it could stay a rental unit and basically they would not be before this Board. They could go a <br />condo and it would not go before the Board. But for marketing concept to own that ground underneath these, <br />they have to through the variances and the Special Use. <br />MR. SASSANO: My question is, did the intent of that, is there something I'm missu)g...? <br />MR. POZO: It would be no different than to stop a single family residence from coming into the middle of <br />downtown South Bend, period. <br />MR. SASSANO: The question then is, what do we have against ownership? What an) I missing here? <br />MR. FOZO: Well, you as a designer, and that you addressed aesthetics quite often, I think there's times that <br />you would not want that one story single family among the large buildings. <br />MR. SASSANO: You're missing my ... <br />18 <br />