ZBA Hearing - February 26, 2025

there we go

alright

we have your refusal there

we can start going through

the actual packet

yeah hold on

how do you move

How do you move down?

Say my name.

You move down.

Oh, you got a touch screen.

Drive me nuts.

Okay.

That's the refusal.

Then you have the application

for special reception.

Yep.

Project information.

Okay.

all right let's see here okay all right this is the proposal for the greenhouse okay all right

all right now so just tell us what you're trying to do and then we can try to help you you know

get through this all right um i'm basically i'm trying to put up a greenhouse okay now the issue

is Mayfair doesn't have backyards

or side

yards.

So, the only

place that I can put it is in the front

yard.

Now, I

have discussed this with all my neighbors.

Okay?

Let me get you all this.

And we see that the

Homebird Civics Association is in support

of the yard. Yes.

Yes, they are.

as a matter of fact several of the members

thought it was a really good idea

because I share my

vegetables with my neighbors

and so I should

everyone's there

okay

can you go back to some of those pictures just for a little bit

we want to see how close

to the front curb this right here is

oh okay

this is an existing

fence from when I bought the house

it's within the perimeters

of the existing

fence.

All right?

And how high is this structure

going to be?

Let me go back up here.

Yeah, let me go up here.

It'll be easier to do it.

Okay.

Now,

at this side,

it's eight foot high.

At this side, it's nine foot high.

I have a one inch or one foot slope

for runoff.

and how high is the current fence

I'm sorry

the current fence is only 6 feet

no no no the current fence

is a 4 foot fence

4

ok

alright

and everything is within the perimeters of the fence

ok

now the thing is

when I went on the L&I website

it gave me

the

the height requirements the square footage and that it can't be attached to an existing structure

okay and that i would not need a permit but it turns out that i do need the variance

because we don't have like i said we don't have backyards all right we have a driveway behind the

house all right let me get that up here um so consequently i had to stop and my neighbors for

almost the last year have been looking at this thank god they liked me in their understanding

um there's a list of all my neighbors i actually went around to every one of them

and asked them you know if they had any problems with it whatsoever and

and asked them, you know,

if they had any problems with it whatsoever.

And every one of them is on board.

That's every house on the block.

All right, that's a letter from the zoning board.

I'm sorry, the Homesburg Association.

This is 130 letters that I had to send out.

This is the letter from the

Ellensburg Association

saying they do not oppose.

There's a copy of my deed for the property.

My current taxes.

That's it.

I'm just trying to extend my growing season

so that I can

have more

of extra hits that I saw from my neighbors.

Understood. We're going to

ask some questions from the board.

Yes, so

I have a question. So I can see that you've

got your new greenhouse structure is

going to be up against your property fence.

In the area between

your fence and your porch, what

activities and how are you going to treat

the ground there?

You're talking

this area here?

Yeah, so between the door to the greenhouse and the railing and the stairway for your porch, what's happening there?

This section is an existing, I guess, concrete slab patio?

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

Hold on.

I know I have a better...

Here we go.

All right.

Now, these here are growing pots?

are those raised bed planters are they going to be

like planter

no no they're in ground

because what we do

is we used to do the entire circumference

but with the greenhouse I can extend my growing

season

this section here is

the picnic table and just the outside area

so it's just sort of like your family recreation

the same way the other front yards

are currently being used

correct

and the

greenhouse is

actually

transparent

I mean with all

the windows

the roofing that I have is

clear corrugated

you know

for the sunlight and all that but like i say i mean it's virtually transparent you know i understand

that the greenhouse uh another question i have about your structure are you planning to have

it um plumbed or connected to water utility no no so how where's your water source for you to

service your garden in your greenhouse well i mean i do have a hose okay so you're just using

Yeah, but now that you're walling in the greenhouse, how are you going to water the plants inside the greenhouse?

Well, I got a 150-foot hose, so I can just drag the hose in there and do it.

But I do have different irrigation systems, and I'm planning on doing water catchment for what comes off the roof.

What's your plan for the water runoff from the roof?

uh it's just a 55 gallon drum okay um and then how are you managing stormwater runoff that's

now happening in the in the rest of the of your front yard because you've got the paved area and

you have the the greenhouse oh what gets absorbed into the ground there is uh

I guess relief holes

behind the wall.

Like perimeter drains?

Yeah.

Is it a perforated pipe

that you installed?

Yes, I did.

And is that tying

into the wastewater inside your

house? No.

So where does that perimeter

drain? It's just draining into the

soil?

Well, onto the sidewalk and out to the curb.

The way it was designed.

You know, when you have a retaining wall, they put the holes at the bottom.

The weak holes.

Right.

Okay, so it's going out.

Right.

And then are you doing any...

If I had that area covered, I wanted to make sure whatever wood I don't collect, you know, is able to go where it's supposed to go.

you know, is he able to

go where it's supposed to go?

No, no, I understand you.

And then are there any lights in your

greenhouse or in your

front yard now?

No.

No.

No.

But I do have

12-volt

grow lights that I got.

I can

just run them off of

just basically a car battery charger.

Anything with 12 volts.

Are you putting that, so, okay,

and you're just keeping it out there?

Yeah.

Understood.

I'm trying to make the structure basically