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HomeMy WebLinkAbout09/26/2002 P&Z minutes 26-02MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION CASE NO. PZ-26-02 Hearing Date: September 26, 2002 PETITIONER: Nebojsa & Slavica Asanin PROPERTY ADDRESS: 216 Yates Lane PARCEL NUMBER: 03-35-413-016 PUBLICATION DATE: September 11, 2002 REQUEST: Conditional Use - Circular Driveway MEMBERS PRESENT: Merrill Cotten Joseph Donnelly Leo Floros Richard Rogers Matthew Sledz Keith Youngquist Arlene Juracek, Chairperson MEMBERS ABSENT: None STAFF MEMBERS PRESENT: Judy Connolly, AICP, Senior Planner Michael Jacobs, AICP, Deputy Director of Community Planning INTERESTED PARTIES: Nebojsa & Slavica Asanin Chairperson Arlene Juracek called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m. Leo Floros made a motion to approve the minutes of the August 22 meeting, seconded by Richard Rogers. Richard Rogers made a motion to approve the minutes of the July 25 meeting, seconded by Merrill Cotten. The August minutes were approved 4-0 with Rich Rogers, Matt Sledz, and Keith Youngquist abstaining. The July minutes were approved 6-0 with Joe Donnelly abstaining. At 7:57, after hearing another case, Ms. Juracek introduced Case No. PZ-26-02, a request for Conditional Use approval to construct a new circular driveway. She said the case would be Village Board final. Judy Connolly, Senior Planner, reported that the subject property is located on the west side of Yates lane, directly across from Jeffery Drive cul-de-sac. She said that the existing home on the subject property is currently set back slightly more than 30-feet from the front lot line and includes a standard 16.5' wide driveway. The petitioner is currently adding on to the existing house and the addition meets Village Codes, however, the circular driveway requires Conditional Use approval. She said that the proposed circular driveway measures 12-feet wide and would connect to the standard driveway. The standard driveway and circular driveway would cover 50.6% of the front yard, but the site complies with overall lot coverage regulations. Ms. Connolly said that in order to approve the Conditional Use, the driveway must meet the standards for a Conditional Use listed in the Zoning Ordinance. She summarized the standards and reported that Staff evaluated traffic patterns in the neighborhood of the Subject Property, which is consistent with other requests for circular driveways. She said that in this case, Staffdid not find that a circular driveway is needed to resolve traffic.or safety issues since the Subject Property is ona local street, which typically does not have a high traffic volume. Also, this reqi~est is different from Other circular driyeway requests previously considered because the lot is not oversized or have an oversized lot width. A site visit confh-med that the proposed circular driveway would not be consistent with the character of the neighborhood since it would require more pavement in the front yard than is characteristic Planning & Zoning Commission PZ-26-02 Arlene Juracek, Chairperson Page 2 of other nearby properties. In addition, the Petitioner's reasons for requesting a circular driveway relate to the number of vehicles they own and for aesthetics associated with the addition. Ms. Connolly said that although the proposed circular driveway would not have an adverse impact on the neighborhood, it is not needed as a solution to a traffic safety issue or because the street has a substandard right-of- way or pavement width, which was the case in previous requests. She said that the Petitioner's reasons for the circular driveway are for convenience and that the circular drive would not be consistent with the character of the neighborhood. Therefum, Staff recommends that the Commission make a recommendation to the Village Board to deny a Conditional Use for a circular driveway for the residence at 216 Yates Lane, Case No. PZ-26-02. She said that the Village Board's decision is final for this case. Richard Rogers said that based on the design submitted for review that the petitioner would probably get fewer cars on a circular drive than on the present driveway. Ms. Connolly said she reviewed alternatives to the circular driveway with the petitioner before accepting the Conditional Use application. She said that one alternative was a wider, standard driveway and that the Zoning Ordinance permitted driveways up to 26-feet for the size of the petitionei's lot. Nebojsa & Slavica Asanin were sworn in. Mr. Asanin said there is no way to park four cars on their driveway and a circular drive would be useful when they have company and have to move cars around. He said that with the addition to the house that the house would be bigger and a circular driveway would be more proportional. They said they didn't want to remove a large tree from the front yard, which would be necessary if they made the driveway larger. Ms. Jnracek said she agreed with Mr. Rogers that a 12' wide driveway would not allow easy movement of cars parked in the driveway. Keith Youngquist said if they made a 26' driveway starting at the northern edge of their current garage door and moved it towards the west property line it would be a wider driveway and could be done with brick pavers to be more decorative, and get more cars on the driveway than a circular one. He said that aesthetically, this would be a much better solution and that it would enhance their addition. Ms. Juracek agreed and said that they would have much more green space in their front yard. Leo Floros also concurred with the previous statements and said that he was sympathetic to their parking problem, but that the circular drive would not be wise from a planning standpoint. Mrs. Asanin said there were some circular driveways in the vicinity on the same lot size and asked when and why those had been approved. Mr. Floros said those driveways might have been in place when annexed into the Village or installed before circular driveway required special approval. Ms. Juracek said it was not productive at this venue to attempt to guess why those circular driveways had been approved. She suggested the petitioners research previous cases with the appropriate Village Depratment. Ms. Juracek closed the public hearing at 8:13 p.m. Richard Rogers moved to make a recommendation to the Village Board to approve a Conditional Use to permit a circular driveway for the residence at 216 Yates Lane, Case No. PZ-26-02: Keith Youngquist seconded the motiom lanning & Zoning Commission Arlene Juracek, Chairperson PZ-26-02 Page 3 UPON ROLL CALL: Juracek Motion was denied 7-0. AYES: None NAYS: Cotten, Donnelly, Floros, Rogers, Youngquist, Sledz and At 8:50 p.m., after hearing three more cases, Joseph Donnelly made a motion to adjourn, seconded by Merrill Cotten. The motion was approved by a voice vote and the meeting was adjourned. Barbara Swiatek, Planning Secretary 3{t'c{~ C~o~nn°ll(y, 'Senior Pla~'er-