Special Exception - 1700 Block of Burdette Street

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7 0 ft. with access allowed over a Ingress and Egress easement on Parcels "A", "B", "C", "J", "R" and "L" to Burdette Street. PARCEL "L": 1) . A Variance from the Minimum required 25 ft. Wide Rear-yard Setback (along the West property line) to a Minimum of 0 ft.; 2). A Variance from the Minimum required 6 ft. Wide Interior-yard around a building to a Minimum of 0 ft. along the South and West property lines; 3). A Variance from the Minimum allowed Lot size of 4,000 sq.ft. for an MFI Zoned parcel and 6,000 sq.ft. Single-family Lot to a Minimum of 3,442 sq.ft. more or less; 4). From the requirement of providing perimeter landscape deciduous trees at a minimum spacing of 40 feet on-center along the West and South property lines to providing no trees. THIS REAL ESTATE IS COMMONLY DESCRIBED AS: THE 1700 BLOCK OF BURDETTE STREET, SOUTH BEND, INDIANA 46637. The Petitioner is the owner 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 owner of Parcel "A" is in the process of finalizing the architectural plans for constructing the residential development. This property was recently annexed and rezoned to allow for an fourteen-unit residential townhome development. The owner has reduced the number of residential townhomes to be built from fourteen down to twelve as shown. As was done previously on the Wexford Townhome development located approximately one block to the East of this petition site, on Willis Avenue, the owner desires to create Single-family attached townhomes. The Petitioner 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 Petitioner 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. 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 and allowing parking spaces in the front-yard area of two of the proposed Lots. The number of Variances shown, are numerous, but that is due to the fact that the Petitioners are attempting to create Twelve (12) Legal Lots of record.