Case Number:
A-15-127
Applicant:
Myles Caudill
Owner:
La Pita Ventures, LLC
Council District:|1313|Location:
534 Pershing Avenue
Legal Description:
Lots 16, 17, 18 & W half of 19, Block 2, NCB 6525
Zoning:
"R-4 NCD-6 AHOD" Residential Single-Family Mahncke Park Neighborhood Conservation Airport Hazard Overlay District
Case Manager:
Margaret Pahl AICP, Senior Planner
Request
A request for 1) a 29 foot variance from the Mahncke Park Neighborhood Conservation District (NCD) design standard, as described in Section 35-335, limiting the structure width to no wider than 50 feet to allow a home addition resulting in a 79 foot wide house; and 2) a 3 foot variance from the minimum 5 foot side yard setback, as shown on Table 35-310-1, to allow the existing home to remain 2 feet from property line.
Executive Summary
The subject property is located in the Mahncke Park Neighborhood in an area called Northview. The Northview plat, recorded in 1923 created the lots along Pershing and showed the Country Club Golf Course adjacent. The property is also located within the Mahncke Park Neighborhood Conservation District (NCD). This design overlay district was created in January 2008 with almost 92% of the structures within its boundary over 25 years old. These design districts were created by the City as a regulatory tool to help preserve the existing character of older, established neighborhoods. According to its Executive Summary, the residential architecture is dominated by Craftsman style bungalows. It claims that although the architectural style of the area is an important feature, the design standards are crafted to perpetuate historical arrangements of buildings, scale, and massing of building volumes. It was this goal that generated the limitation of no homes wider than 50 feet.
This section of the neighborhood has a different arrangement of buildings and lots. The most noticeable feature is that Pershing Avenue is "single-loaded", a term meaning that there are hou...
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