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Staff hearing officer approves Shoreline Drive addition, citing disability accommodation despite staff recommending denial
Summary
The staff hearing officer approved a 206 sq ft first-floor addition at 1222 Shoreline Drive that reduces the required open yard from 1,250 sq ft to about 750 sq ft, overturning staff's recommendation to deny on open-yard grounds and citing a medical accommodation and pending code adjustments for aging-in-place.
Tess Harris, the City of Santa Barbara staff hearing officer, approved a 206-square-foot first-floor addition at 1222 Shoreline Drive despite staff’s recommendation to deny the requested open-yard modification. Harris said the record and applicable modification criteria supported an accommodation for the homeowner’s medical needs.
Assistant planner Jillian Fennessy told the hearing the lot (5,662 sq ft) currently met the 1,250-square-foot open-yard requirement and that the proposed addition would reduce usable open yard to roughly 750 square feet and cause existing trellis/arbor encroachments to exceed the 20% limit (staff…
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