Case Number:
BOA-18-900007
Applicant:
James Griffin, Brown & Ortiz, P.C.
Owner:
Key Properties
Council District:|1010|Location:
244 West Cevallos Street
Legal Description:
Lot 13, Block 1, NCB 1011
Zoning:
"O-1 RIO-7E AHOD" Office River Improvement Overlay Airport Hazard Overlay District
Case Manager:
Debora Gonzalez, Senior Planner
Request
A request for 1) a waiver from the 12 month time limitation on subsequent applications, 2) a special exception to allow a predominately open fence to be 8' tall along all property lines, 3) a 12' variance from the 15' Type B landscape bufferyard, as described in Section 35-510, along the east and south property lines to allow for a bufferyard, as described in Section 35-510, to be as narrow as 3', and 4) a 7' variance from the 10' Type A landscape bufferyard as described in Section 35-510, along the north property line to allow for a bufferyard to be as narrow as 3'.
Executive Summary
The subject property is located at 244 West Cevallos Street on the intersection with Marty Street, approximately 900' northwest of Nogalitos Street and South Flores Street. The applicant developed a parking lot with no bufferyards on the north, south, and east property lines, and built an 8' wrought iron fence on all sides of the property.
Code Enforcement initiated this case on June of 2017 having found a vacant lot converted into a parking lot with a wrought iron fence without any permits. The applicant applied for a permit to begin concrete flatwork for on-site parking on December 22, 2017, however, the building, historical, irrigation, landscape, and tree reviews were denied within 1 month of plan submission. Specifically, landscape and tree reviews were denied pending a corrected landscape plan designating compliance of a mandatory 15' abutting bufferyard.
The Board first heard this request on May 7th, 2018 with the following requests: 1) a 14'11" variance from the 15' Type B landscape bufferyard, as described in Section 35-510, to allow a buf...
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