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Area Board of Zoning Appeals - April 7, 2010 ,, ~ } <br />,., <br />J. PATRICK MA'PTIICEWSS <br />The petition of ~. Patrick Matthews seeking the following: PARCEL 1: from the required 4,000 sq.ft. lot <br />area to 3,892.77 sq. ft.; from the required 25' front yard setback to 12'; from the required 5'side yard setback <br />to 4' along the south property line; PARCL~'L Z: from the required 4,000 sq.ft. lot area to 3,$97.42 sq. ft.; <br />LET 3: seeking a Special Exception to allow a duplex in a "Sp`2" District;. from the required 6,000 sq.ft. lot <br />area to 5,417.99 sq.ft.; from the required b0' frontage to 0'; from the required b' side yard setback to 1' on the <br />north and south property lines, on property located at 1019, 1019 % and 1021 N. St. Peter Street, .Portage <br />Township. Zoned "SF2". <br />MR. TERRY LANG: Lang, Feeney & Associates, 715 S. Michigan Street, South Bend and I represent the <br />petitioner here, Mr. Matthews. Before you I passed out a series of handouts to you guys to kind of help <br />visualize what the site looks like. The variances that we are asking for on these three parcels, basically there <br />are two existing homes and a duplex on what's labeled on my site plan as Parcels 1 and 3. On that Parcel 1 <br />is a single family home and on Parcel 3 is duplex and Parcel 2 is what we are desiring to build a new single <br />family home on. If you look at the tax snap that was submitted with the petition you'll see that we currently <br />have theee tax parcels that this property encompasses and. our proposed reconfiguration of these three parcels <br />will make the parcels as shown an our site plan. The variances that we are asking for parcels 1 & 2 are <br />square footage and a side yard for the existing home on Paxcel 1 and then strictly a square footage on Parcel <br />2. If you look we're about 1 I 0 square feet short from meeting the single family residential requirement for <br />those two lots. On the site plan there, Parcel 3, the duplex Iocation there, we're about 580 some square feet <br />short of the requirement an that parcel itself. The pictures that you're looking at that I handed out, the first <br />page of those pictures is what the site looked like when Mr. Matthews bought the property in November of <br />2008. I-Ie went in there to purchase the property to do renovations, to fix them up and had also met with the <br />Planning Commission staff and Building Department with what can be done and what can be done with <br />possibly putting a future home on the vacant area there also. The first page is the existing conditions that <br />you can see the home that's there, it's not the best pictures I could get, but I wasn't involved with it when he <br />had purchased the property and the owner had provided me those pictures of what it looked like first. The <br />home was an owner lived in home that was there anal had a history with Code Enforcexnent of quite a few <br />calls, complaints with regards to the.area right there. I'll let the owner, Mr. Matthews, ga into more details <br />with that since his familiarity with that is much better than mine. The Parcel 3 that we have right there has <br />been a duplex on site far, our office records ga back to 190 i, the latest map that l can show that duplex has <br />been there prior to 1950. Sa it's anon-conforming use. It's been there for over sixty years from the maps <br />that I have on f le in my office. The owner had purchased and done huge renovations. If you look at page 2 <br />you'll see the renovations to the duplex as well as the renovations that were done to the home. The home <br />located on Parcel 1, have renovations that amounted to roughly $100,000 worth of renovation and current <br />has a family living in it. The renovations that were done to Parcel 3, the duplex was approximately $150,000 <br />worth of renovations and you can see that it's a great improvement to the area that we have right there <br />between those two sets of photos. The third through pages eight, I believe, are the proposed new home that's <br />proposed for Lot 2. You'll see that the owner has hired an architect to design a home for the site. It's a nice <br />two bedroom home to be located on there. Estimated value will probably be somewhere around $140,000 to <br />$150,000. So the investment that the owner has made in the neighborhood right here, with the purchase <br />price that he made originally, is pushing close to X500,000. Sa it's not like we're proposing to hinder the <br />neighborhood by throwing up shoddy housing or anything like that. We"ve made an investment in the area <br />67 <br />