Case Number:
A-16-167
Applicant:
Mark Granados
Owner:
Ditch Rider, LLC
Council District:|1010|Location:
2024 Babcock
Legal Description:
Lots 29 & 30, Block 2, NCB 11612
Zoning:
"C-2 AHOD" Commercial Airport Hazard Overlay District
Case Manager:
Margaret Pahl, AICP, Senior Planner
Request
A request for a 15 foot variance from the minimum 15 foot landscape bufferyard to eliminate the need for a buffer adjacent to residential zoning on both the rear and the side property lines.
Executive Summary
The subject property is approximately 1.12 acres and was recently purchased by the applicant. According to a proposed site plan submitted with the application, the applicant is planning to demolish the existing building and construct a new commercial building that includes 9,800 square feet of floor area with 70 parking stalls. In the variance request, the applicant is seeking approval to eliminate the bufferyard required along the rear where the property abuts a residential subdivision. A variance is also required to eliminate a bufferyard on the shared property line to the north. A San Antonio Water System facility is located on this residentially zoned property. The hardship described in the application is the City's parking requirement, which for this size building with office or retail uses is 33 stalls.
The applicant has also designed an oversized aisle width in the rear parking lot layout. According to the UDC design standards for parking stalls and safe maneuvering, the required "back-up" area between two rows of parking is 25 feet, not the 34 feet shown on the plan. Therefore, without reducing the number of parking stalls or shrinking the proposed building, there is already 9 feet available for use as buffer along the shared property line. During a site visit, staff noticed several existing trees along this boundary.
When starting with a vacant parcel, it is very difficult to prove a property related hardship as suggested by the applicant. Minimum development...
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