02-27-12 Council Agenda & Packet

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Area Board of Zoning Appeals—February 1, 2012 MR. MARTIN: No we don't have any fencing, only on the back half of our lot. REMONSTRANCE MR. URBANSKI: We do have one letter from Goodwill letterhead. It is signed Ray Garbaciak, Vice President of operations. They are directly across the street from you at 1902 Western Ave. I am with Goodwill and we own property at 1805 Western Ave. across the street from said property. It is our contention and recommendation the special exception is denied for the following concerns. One, disruptive the residential neighborhood. By reducing the required number of parking spaces by 82 or 98% this will direct their patrons to seek other areas to park and we do not want are parking in the mix. By reducing the number of parking spaces again by 82 or 98% would suggest and increase in foot traffic which would be create safety concerns for these pedestrians in addition might create more litter in the area. Thank you. MS. CHRISTINE WEISSFUSS: I live 438 S. Grant Street. My husband is here with me today. We have been living, I have been living there since 1990. And was there when the Seahorse was there. There was,no trouble when the Seahorse was there but we now have another club on another block. Those streets are all one way streets going in and going out. Grant Street happens to be a one way street going towards Western Ave. We have, in the last year or so, when the other clubs let out on whatever nights they're open there is an enormous amount of traffic coming down the street going toward Western Ave. Now if there's going to be parking on the public streets within those city blocks an overflow from the parking lot that they have on Western Ave. or the Western Ave. parking lot, there is bound to be a lot of traffic. Now it seems like there is a conga line of cars at 3:00 in the morning on Friday and Saturday and Sunday mornings going down the streets. And it does cause a lot of noise. We actually had people work on their stereos in the middle of the street or out in front of our homes. Stopping, making phone calls, doing things like that so it is very disruptive to the neighborhood. Thinking back to when Seahorse was there I do remember people crossing Western Ave. coming from the Seahorse going to their vehicles, two people were killed that were hit by cars. So that is an issue as well, So I'm just opposed to having another bar or club in the neighborhood without sufficient parking around and so forth just as a safety precaution and a security thing. REBUTTAL: MR. HUNTINGTON: We have, Ms. O'Neal advise me that we've already approached Schilli and Schilli we are told already rents it's space with somebody else so we are uncertain of what the Schilli issue is right now with regard to parking. And we have no intention of parking on Schillis property unless we have some kind of an agreement with them, an easement or written agreement with them. We won't trespass on their property. The issue of the traffic in the neighborhood, I really can't speak to that. I'm not familiar enough with the neighborhood to know how the traffic flows but it would strike that most of the traffic would go Western Ave. The club that we're talking about is located on Western and we're talking about parking being a block away, not even a block away from Western Ave. Other clubs in the neighborhood we're not really sure how that traffic pattern works but Western Ave., of course, is the primary arterial there and it's the road that everyone would seek to get to pretty quickly, Whether their fixing their stereos or making phone calls or something like that we really can't speak to that. That's an issue perhaps of a little patrolling perhaps. Our position simply is this, we think that this re-use adapts a building that has been vacant for sometime and 55