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Board approves parking and buffer variances for Rusch Properties at 822 Pine St.
Summary
The Zoning and Planning Board of Appeals granted variances March 17 allowing Rusch Properties LLC to add five parking stalls accessed from an alley at 822 Pine Street, including relief on buffer width, driveway throat length and a 0.4 percentage-point impervious-surface exceedance; the applicant must work with staff to provide required screening.
On March 17 the Zoning and Planning Board of Appeals approved a set of variances allowing Rusch Properties LLC to add five parking stalls at 822 Pine Street, resolving three code issues for the project: south-side buffer width, driveway throat length measured from the property line, and a small increase in lot impervious surface.
Planning staff identified four code matters in its report; the three that required board action were: (1) the required 25-foot buffer for a multifamily building adjacent to residential properties (the applicant’s plan shows a 3-foot buffer on the south side), (2) the driveway throat length (the code measures 18 feet from the property line but the proposal would allow direct alley backing), and (3) the impervious-surface limit for the OR district (existing impervious was 53.2 percent; adding the…
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