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A
Okay
Appeals,
the
meeting
is
called
to
order
at
this
time
at
7
p.m.
the
date
is
March
13
2007.
Our
board
consists
of
five
numbers
and
an
alternate
from
the
alternate
Facebook
part
and
discussions
of
the
board
and
becomes
a
voting
number
in
the
absence
or
conflict
of
interest
of
a
regular
members.
This
evening
present
members
are
Greg:
Lebel,
Roger,
Reiser,
John,
Gould
Z,
our
alternate
Hector
Florez,
who
will
be
an
acting
member
this
evening
in
the
absence
of
Betty
Hollow
and
I,
am
your
Frederick,
the
chair.
A
We
are
also
present
our
Zoning
Administrator
Steve
Pearson
Paul
Assenmacher
acting
secretary
and
Michael
Miller
from
the
city
law
director's
office.
The
board
operates
according
to
the
following
procedure:
the
chair
names
and
describes
the
case.
The
Zoning
Administrator
cites.
The
specifics
of
the
refusal,
the
appellant
or
representative
then
will
state
the
case
for
granting
the
appeal
testimony.
A
Lights
will
be
taken
from
those
who
support
granting
the
appeal,
then
those
who
wish
to
speak
in
general
comment
and
then
those
who
support
denial
of
the
appeal
following
all
testimonies
the
board
will
receive
concluding
remarks
from
the
appellant
discussion
from
the
floor
then
will
be
closed.
The
board
will
deliberate
and
run
our
decisions
under
athlete.
City
Code,
section
23,
oh,
oh
beam.
The
board
has
the
power
to
grant
such
variances
from
the
code,
as
will
not
be
contrary
to
the
public
interest,
so
that
the
spirit
of
the
code
shall
be
observed.
A
Athens
City,
Code,
section
23,
9,
1
0
C
requires
that
variances
from
the
code
shall
not
be
granted
unless
the
board
makes
specific
findings
of
fact,
based
directly
on
the
evidence
provided
to
it
that
each
and
every
one
of
the
following
six
criteria
are
met.
The
first
is
practical
difficulty
or
undue
hardship.
A
There
must
exist
a
practical
difficulty
or
undue
hardship
caused
by
exceptional
Spain
into
the
specific
piece
of
property,
exceptional
circumstances.
There
must
exist,
exceptional
circumstances
or
conditions
applying
to
the
property
or
its
intended
use
that
do
not
in
general,
apply
to
properties
in
the
same
zoning
district,
the
preservation
of
equal
property
rights,
it
must
be
determined
that
literal
interpretation
of
the
code
would
deprive
the
appellant
of
Rights
commonly
enjoyed
by
others
in
the
same
vicinity,
while
granting
the
variance
would
not
convey
a
special
privilege
and
a
minimum
variance
is
number
four.
A
It
must
be
determined
that
the
variance
is
the
minimum
required
to
make
reasonable
use
of
the
property.
Number
five
is
absence
of
detriment.
It
must
be
determined
that
the
granting
of
the
variance
will
not
be
of
substantial
detriment
to
adjacent
properties,
Norma
T,
really
impaired
the
purposes
of
the
code
or
the
public
interest
and
last
number
six,
not
of
a
general
nature.
The
variance
sought
must
not
be
of
a
general
or
recurring
nature
such
that
the
situation
would
more
reasonably
be
handled
by
changing
the
law.
A
Any
person
who's
in
grieved
by
the
decision
of
the
Bourdon
may
file
an
appeal
to
the
Court
of
Common
Pleas.
Such
a
petition
must
be
filed
within
30
days
after
the
name
of
the
board's
resolution
to
the
appellant
there's
one
case
on
the
agenda
this
evening,
number
0,
7,
0,
4,
V,
437,
East,
Carter
Street,
was
only
3
beste
of
Athens.
Rentals
is
the
appellant.
The
board
is
required
by
law
to
take
testimony
under
oath
anyone
wishing
to
speak
this
evening,
please
stand
to
be
sworn.
B
My
name
is
Steve
Pearson
and
the
Zoning
Administrator
for
the
city
of
Athens
Ohio.
The
case
tonight
was
one
that
was
continued
from
the
last
meeting.
Policies
and
procedures
of
the
board
indicate
that
there
will
not
be
five
members
present.
Appellant
have
the
right
to
continue
their
place
and
that's
what
has
been
done
in
this
particular
case.
B
The
address
of
this
property
is
thirty:
70s
carpenter
Street.
It's
a
rooming,
currently
a
rooming
house
with
a
permit
for
seven
occupants.
It
has
six
parking
spaces
in
order
to
access
parking
spots
off
of
carpenter
Street,
you
have
to
go
back
a
normal
single
car
wide
driveway.
There
is
an
additional
parking
space
at
the
rear
of
the
property
which
is
accessed
via
an
easement
across
an
adjacent
property.
There's
an
easement
that
goes
down
between
where
the
Wesleyan
Church
used
to
be
on
the
corner
and
where
the
Athens
bookstore
is
now
yeah.
B
So
all
those
property
owners
down
in
there
have
cross
seasons
to
access
their
parking
when
parking
was
developed
in
there
several
years
ago,
the
owners
of
this
particular
property
kind
of
capitalized
on
that
installed
an
additional
parking
spot.
They
had
to
build
a
fairly
significant
retaining
wall
because
of
the
slip
prone
nature
of
the
soil
right
there,
so
they
did
the
best
they
could
several
years
ago
to
get
additional
parking
for
this
particular
property.
B
It's
what's
called
a
legal
non-conforming
use.
You
know
most
people
call
it
a
grandfathered
situation.
The
code
requires
a
parking
spot
for
each
person.
Now
each
residents
so
that'd
be
a
total
of
seven.
There
are
only
six
spots
on
the
property
right
now.
The
house
is
up
toward
carpenter
Street.
The
lot
drops
off
in
the
back
down
toward
fern
alley.
So
a
lot
of
the
lot
is
just
this
big
hillside
in
the
back
now.
B
The
reason
we're
here
tonight
is
because
council
recently
passed
an
ordinance,
and
hopefully
it
was
included
in
the
pack
of
information
that
I
gave
you
that
basically
says
that
anyone
who
wants
to
expand
a
building
where
there's
some
nonconformity,
especially
in
this
case,
particularly
parking
if
they
can't
meet
the
parking
requirement,
they
have
to
come
to
the
board.
That
applies
if
they're,
asking
for
more
people
or
more
tenants
or
not
in
this
particular
case,
there's
no
request
for
additional
tenants.
They
just
want
to
maintain
the
permit
that
they
have.
B
B
The
housing
code
only
requires
one
bathroom
for
every
six
people,
but
I
mentioned
somebody
today,
I
hate
sharing
a
bathroom
with
just
my
son,
so
most
people
don't
want
to
share
a
bathroom
to
serve
with
anybody
right
now.
But
in
this
case
right
now
you
have
seven
people
using
two
restrooms
two
bathrooms.
C
C
C
B
Probably
what
you
need
to
do
is
look
at
the
section,
the
code
that
I
refused
it
on
also
to
give
a
little
context
why
I
was
refused,
and
that
says
if
anyone
wants
to
expand
the
structure.
Even
if
there's
no
me
quote
request
for
increased
occupancy,
they
have
to
meet
the
parking
requirement.
So
it's
very
easy
for
me
to
go
to
the
park
requirements
and
note
that
one
for
each
permitted
occupant
is
required.
D
B
C
B
A
B
A
E
B
Variance
that's
required
is
in
that
particular
zone.
Every
parking
spot
has
to
be
accessible
coming,
so
refusal
was
based
on
two
things.
In
order
to
meet
the
park
requirement,
you
have
to
have
one
for
each
permitted
occupant
and
each
of
those
parking
spots
has
to
be
accessible.
So
there's
two
variants,
one
essentially
for,
as
I
said
earlier,
the
single
wide
driveway
trapping
in
other
cars
that
requires
a
variance
in
this
particular
zone
is.
A
A
A
D
D
F
A
A
B
Park
is
a
big
issue.
This
revision
is
a
fairly
recent
one,
not
part
of
the
2001
provision.
So
council
has
recently
addressed
the
issue
of
park
and
I.
Think
what
they
wanted
to
do
was
make
sure
that
if
you
were
expanding
a
building
and
the
parking
was
non-compliant,
even
if
you
weren't
asking
for
more
people,
was
there
an
opportunity
to
actually
increase
the
parties
in
this
particular
case,
if
there
was
an
opportunity
to
increase
the
parking
to
meet
the
parking
requirement,
the
appellant
wouldn't
need
to
be
here
tonight.
I
see
I.
B
D
A
A
G
G
F
G
A
Replace
that
big
fire
that
they
put
on
their
lawn
in
the
backyard
did
you
see
the
burnt
face
in
the
backyard
and
those?
No
it's
not
it's
under
the
snow.
You
can't
see
it
up.
Did
today
when
I
went
up
to
see
the
house
it
looked
like.
There
was
a
large
burnt
space
in
the
backyard
on
the
grass
will
go
by
tomorrow.
E
G
A
B
B
D
B
E
B
B
B
B
G
A
A
A
C
A
Would
certainly
make
an
improvement
and
the
quality
of
life
of
the
occupants
of
the
property
the
and
did
anyone
else
get
a
chance
to
go
over
to
see
the
property
we
worked
with
these.
Did
you
have
a
chance
to
really
look
at
the
photographs?
The
backyard
is
really
quite
little,
and
if
they
do
take
out
the
deck
there
would
be
no
deck
space
no
place
other
than
just
that
back
I
would
think
that.
C
I
move
the
grand
variance
to
the
property
at
37,
East
carpenter,
street
west
of
Athens
rentals
case
0
7
show
for
the
zoning
III
from
section
23
or
801,
see
to
permit
extension
of
an
existing
deck.
In
addition
of
the
bathroom,
where
such
addition
requires,
seven
accessible
parking
spaces
and
six
too
accessible
for
non-accessible
exist.
A
B
A
Be
the
shape
of
the
robbery
itself?
Just
you
know
it's.
There
isn't
a
lot
of
land
around
the
building
that
exists
for
parking
and
that's
the
parking.
Is
the
problem
they've
pretty
much
applied
themselves
to
providing
what
the
parking
can
be
provided
on
that
lot
there,
that
little
handkerchief
of
land
in
the
backyard
isn't
adequate
to
provide
any
additional
parking.
F
F
A
What
I
would
consider
adequate,
but
it
doesn't
seem
like
it's
going
to
be
possible
to
address
it
any
further.
The
only
thing
that
you
could
do
is
reduce
the
number
of
tenants
by
one
and
then
you'd
be.
You
still
wouldn't
be,
however,
absolutely
to
code,
because
the
requirement
is
that
they
all
be
accessible,
so
it
we
right
back
to
the
the
circumstance
of
the
property
itself.
A
B
D
A
A
D
F
D
C
B
A
B
B
C
B
B
A
B
I
think
we
have,
it
does
make
it.
It
does
restrict
people
who
have
grandfathered
parking
from
considering
expanding
the
footprint
of
their
building.
You
know
if
they
go
beyond
the
existing
roof
line
and
they
don't
the
right
amount
of
parking.
They're
gonna
be
at
the
board
asking
for
a
parking
variance
now
administrative
leave.
We
have
given
allowance
for
reconfiguring
inside
an
existing
footprint
of
the
building.
For
example,
I
have
four
units
in
a
building
with
two
in
each
total
of
eight
tenants.
I
want
to
turn
that
into
two
units
with
four
tenants.
B
B
A
A
A
C
A
B
C
G
B
C
B
B
F
D
A
Yeah
for
the
record
before
the
meeting
began,
we
had
some
discussion
about
training
session
that
we're
trying
to
set
up
and
we're
going
to
see
if
we
can
possibly
make
arrangements
to
have
a
session
with
Gary
hunter
after
our
meetings,
but
we'll
find
out
maybe
next
month
and
then
our
organizational
meeting
for
2007
has
to
happen.
Sometime
like
how
about
now,
Madison
I.
E
A
A
It
the
way
we've
done
it,
it's
fine
with
me
I'm
happy
to
keep
on
doing
it,
but
that
being
the
case,
I,
don't
think
any
other
organizational
things,
but
we'll
discuss
next
month
after
I've
talked
to
Gary
hunters
office
about
what
the
possibility
is
of
having
that
orbit.
That
meeting
about
training
get.
D
A
How
many
cases
we
have
is
about
two
weeks
prior
so
that
won't
work
something
out.
I
found
it
very,
very
helpful.
The
session
that
I
went
to
I
had
to
go
to
Lancaster
as
I
mentioned,
and
it's
been
years
ago
now,
but
I
did
find
it
very
useful
and
I
think
all
of
you
would
too
very
interesting
to
get
the
background.
B
One
thing
I
would
like
to
mention:
hopefully
you
received
in
the
mail
the
outline
of
mr.
hunters
presentation
and
in
speaking
with
him
and
with
mr.
Miller.
If
you
do
have
any
particular
questions,
you
can
always
contact
mr.
hunter
directly
for
individual
questions,
but
I
just
wanted
to
make
sure
that
everybody
got
that
outline.
The
mister
hunter
was
prepared
to
present
mine.
A
B
Well,
just
let
me
know
I
find
I've
got
a
copy
and
I
can
get
you
another
one.
Okay
and
another
thing
I
would
like
to
announce
too.
Is
there
still
an
opening
on
the
board
for
an
alternate
I've
had
several
enquiries
from
members
of
neighborhood
associations.
If
the
position
is
still
vacant
and
has
been
vacant,
you.