ZBA Hearing - August 17, 2022

packet with proof of ownership, tax compliance, refusal, referral, photos under plans of the

property five days before this hearing? And have you met with the RCO? And do you have a letter?

Yes to all of those questions. Okay, great. You may proceed and begin to share your screen.

Great. Here we go. All right. So like I said, I'm here today representing Chris and Allie, who are the homeowners of 724 South Mardine Street. Let me just move some things around so that I can scroll through.

I've submitted a packet that I'm just going to walk through here that contains the refusal.

There's just one for maximum occupied area.

Here's our application material along with the project information form.

The deed that shows Allie and Chris as the property owners.

We also have the tax clearances, I believe, are next.

There you go. There's Chris. There's Allie.

um and here's the letter from hawthorne empowerment coalition of support non-opposition it was a

unanimous support um and let's just go to i'm going to run through the photographs and plans

And let's just go to, I'm going to run through the photographs and plans as I go through my presentation. So here's just the postings. And we'll just start with the front of the building.

as I go through my presentation.

So 724 Marveen is an 844 square foot RSA five zone parcel. It runs street to street from Marveen back to Saratine. I'm really sorry. It's a very small street that I've never heard of before this case.

there it is, and that it's located between Bainbridge and Fitzwater. Chris and Allie have

called this home for over 12 years. They've lovingly cared for their home during that time

and grown very attached to their community. Here you can see the first floor living space. You can

tell it's well maintained and cared for home. They had a bit of a change in circumstances

prior to this application where Chris's father came to live with them and his father is both

elderly and has some mobility issues which is why we're here today asking for a small

edition one story edition get to the plans so I can show you what we're doing a small one story

edition it's about 25 square feet you can see it's marked right there on the property it's three feet

four inches by seven feet six inches and this would allow a half bath to be added to the main

living floor and this would allow Chris's father to have a restroom on the main living area so that

he did not have to go up and down the steps quite as often and they could feel more comfortable

with him at home not worrying about him going up and down steep row house stairs by himself and

risking a fall. So, like I said, there's one refusal for maximum occupied area. In this zoning

district, maximum allowed is 75%. This property was actually grandfathered in, like many of these

older row homes, at 78%. With the addition, we would be at 81.3%, which is about a 3% addition.

My argument would be that that's a pretty de minimis request, especially when we're talking about what it gains the family, which is the ability to stay in the home that they love and the community they care about and provide a safe environment to care for an elderly family member in that home.

So, as I said, the location of where this addition is proposed really minimizes any,

oh, before I go too far, I just want to show you, this is the bathroom plan.

So you can see it's just a little typical half bath that you would have on the first floor of a row home.

Nothing spectacular.

So, yeah, so the location is tucked away kind of in the breezeway between the two properties.

this is 724, this is 726. It's only one story. Basically, there should be no impact on any

neighbor at all other than possibly minimal impact of the adjacent property at 726 South

Marveen. So here's another aerial view that we can get up. It's going to go right in that little

spot. I'm going to get to the photos that show the area. Hold on one second. So it's basically

going to be right there where that door comes out, where there's currently this step. That's

going to become where the half bathroom is. So, and just as a note, there's another door out the

back of the kitchen. So we're not blocking the only exit to the rear of the property. There's

still plenty of safe fire exits in case of an emergency. All of the emergency access is still

available. And in addition, you know, when we're talking about maximum occupied area,

the code anticipates that you're going to have a property to the rear. And this actually is a

street to street property. So we have instead another alloy and another several, another good

chunk of feet between this property and the adjoining property to allow safe access and

fire escape and all that sort of stuff. So like I said, the only impacted possibly impacted

neighbor would be 726 South Marveen. Before Ali and Chris even began this adventure, they

talked to their neighbor. And the neighbor also attended the community meeting where

they expressed their full support. I do believe they're on the call today to verify that support

because i don't want to put anything in their um mouths but again we did get unanimous support from

the community group and they were in attendance um i just also is your client here is your client here

I just also. Is your client here? Is your client here? I believe so. Either Chris or Allie should be here. Why don't you have your testimony adopted? Okay.

Chris or Allie, if you're here, can you raise your hand? There's a button at the bottom of the screen.

um ali tabib is the day has their hand raised i don't know if that's great thank you that's them

yep all right hi could you state your name and spell it please for the court reporter

ali is my first name last name is tabibzadeh t-a-b-i-b-z-a-d-e-h

did the court reporter get that

yes chairman thank thank you do you swear for him to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing

but the truth yes proceed um ollie did you hear my testimony here today and do you believe it

be truthful and accurate yes and would you adopt it as your own yes great

questions from the board no mr chairman no mr chairman questions or comments from the virtual

audience i see no further hands mr chair okay thank you um planning commission

sir ron bednar city planning properties indicated for residential on the city plan

we have no objection to granting the variance thank you mi 2022 001819724 south marvines

marvine street i vote yes carol tennery my vote is yes thomas tellman my vote is yes

my vote is yes

thank you

council thank you so much all right

is there anyone in the virtual

audience whose case has not been called

on the afternoon list

I do not

see any further hands Mr. Chair

thank you everyone

thank you Mr. Chairman

thank you Mr. Chairman

all right thank you everybody

thank you

Good night. Thank you. Good night. Bye-bye, everybody. Good night.