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File #: 17-4469   
Type: Zoning Case
In control: Board of Adjustment
On agenda: 8/7/2017
Posting Language: A-17-124: A request by Mission DG, Ltd. for an eleven foot variance from the MPOD-1 height limitation to allow a multi-family development with a maximum height of 36.5 feet, located at 222 East Mitchell Street. Staff recommends Approval of the HDRC Recommendation. (Council District 3)
Attachments: 1. BOA17-124 Attachments, 2. BOA17-124 Attachment-A
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Case Number:
A-17-124
Applicant:
Kaufman & Killen, Inc.
Owner:
Mission, DG Ltd.
Council District:|1010|Location:
222 E. Mitchell Street
Legal Description:
Lots 1-4, 6-10, 17-21, 29, N. Irr. 4 ft. of A-29, A-31A, P-100, & Adj. 16 ft. strip, Block 1, NCB 3975
Zoning:
"MF-33 H HS RIO-4 MPOD-1 AHOD" Multi-Family Mission Historic Significant River Improvement Overlay Mission Protection Overlay Airport Hazard Overlay District
Case Manager:
Shepard Beamon, Senior Planner
Request
A request for an 11 foot variance from the MPOD-1 height limitation, as described in Section 35-339.06, to allow a multi-family development with a maximum height of 36.5 feet.
Executive Summary
The subject property is currently vacant and was the home of the St. John's Seminary campus. The proposed development will consist of the adaptive reuse of the existing building from the seminary campus and the construction of six multi-family structures and one community building. The applicant is requesting the variance for four of the new buildings. The buildings are to be located in the Mission Protection Overlay District (MPOD-1). Under the MPOD-1, a protection angle shall originate exactly 5.5 feet above the brass monument disc that defines each Mission Protection District and extend outward 360 degrees and upward at a two-degree angle. The requested variances are necessary as the four buildings in question exceed the protection angle at a maximum of 11 feet. The proposed buildings will be two and three-story. The portions of the buildings that will encroach into the protection angle are primarily the pitched roofs of each building. Not all buildings are not proposed to encroach the full 11 feet; Attachment A identifies the four proposed buildings and the additional height that each encroaches into the protection angle. Building #4 is proposed to encroach into the protection angle 11 inches. Building #5 is proposed to encroach five feet three inches. Building #6 is proposed to encroach 10 feet five i...

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