Welcome to the City of John's Creek Board of Zoning Appeals meeting for July 2026.

The meeting will now come to order.

Let the record show that we have a quorum.

Mr.

Green and Mr.

E are absent.

We have our agenda for the current meeting and minutes from our meeting in June.

If all members have had a chance to review, are there any changes to the motion on the agenda or the minutes?

If not any.

I make a motion to approve the last meeting minutes.

Vice Chair Stainer is seconded.

All in favor of the motion, please say aye.

Aye.

Anyone opposed?

The minutes agenda and minutes are approved as presented.

For the public hearing portion tonight, we have two cases.

For the first variance case, the staff will present the case after the presentation.

The applicant will have 10 minutes to present their case.

Any opposition will have a total of 10 minutes.

If the applicant does not use their full 10 minutes, the remainder can be reserved for rebuttal.

Anyone that wishes to speak should step up to the podium, uh, state your name and address for record.

All questions for staff, applicant, and opposition will be held after the public hearing is closed.

Um case today is uh V-26-0008.

Um Rachit, please Good evening, board members.

Uh, my name is Ruchi Agarwal.

I am the planning and zoning manager, and I'll be presenting you the first case tonight, the variance case V-26-0008.

The subject property is located at 145 East Meadows Court.

In the graphic here, you can see uh the corner lot, which is right here, is the subject property.

And the it is in seven oak subdivision.

It is approximately 0.507 acres.

The current zoning of the subdivision is R 4A single family dwelling district, uh, which was approved in 1987 by Fulton County.

Um the corner lot minimum building setbacks or front setback is 35 feet along Meadows Lane, which uh just to orient you all.

This is Meadows Lane, and this corner lot is the front, just a little bit extra, is the shorter side of the property, uh governs what the front it would be.

So Meadows Lane is the front, and this is the side corner, so which is East Meadows Court.

So side interior is seven feet, side corner, so along East Meadows Court is 20 feet, and the rear setback is 25 feet, which is um towards the neighbor parallel with the meadows lane.

The applicable code requirements here are um through city zoning ordinance, article six, single family dwelling districts, section 6.7 for R-4A.

The development standard for minimum rear yard is 25 feet.

The variance request is to reduce the required 25 foot rear yard setback, uh which is shown in the red dashed line on the graphic here to 11 feet, which is shown as red solid line to allow the construction of a detached garage in pool house.

Um I would just like to make a slight comment.

Um the sign and the legal ad was originally um requesting the applicant was requesting seven feet of reduction, but it has staff has worked with the applicant and increased it to um 11 feet from seven feet to eleven feet of reduction.

Proposed garage, which is shown is uh in green.

Green is the encroachment area.

There is a rectangle that shows the garage.

Um and the pool house encroachment as shown in blue would each extend 14 feet into the rear yard setback, resulting in a combined encroachment of 671.84 square feet within the rear uh rear yard setback area.

The zoning ordinance um section 22.3.1 lists the following considerations for granting a variance.

Relief, if granted, would be in harmony with or could be made in harmony with the general purpose and intent of the zoning ordinance, or the application of the particular provisions of the zoning ordinance to a particular piece of property due to extraordinary and exceptional conditions pertaining to that property because of its size, shape, or topography would create an unnecessary hardship for the owner while causing no detriment to the public.

Next, we'll look into the staff analysis.

The intent of the Rio Yard setback is to provide adequate separation between structures and to minimize potential visual and noise impacts on adjacent properties.

On the graphic here, it shows the recorded final plaque for Seven Oak Subdivision, which shows the 35-foot front yard setback along Meadows Lane, and 25 foot rear yard setback along the northeast property line.

Northeast property line of the subject property.

The existing house was built diagonally on the lot.

As you can see, the blue color polygon shows the existing house print, and it sits diagonally on the corner lot.

The front of the home setbacks 50 feet from the front property line and 78 feet from the front corner of the lawn.

So what it's trying to say is this is the front property line, and this red arrow shows 50 feet distance, although the front setback is 35 feet, and the distance of the uh house from the front corner here is 78 feet.

The house placement along with the site's topography reduces the usable area available in the rear yard for accessory structures such as the detached garage and pool house without seeking a variance.

The applicant is proposing uh to mitigate potential impacts to adjacent properties.

Uh the applicant is proposing to install evergreen plantings along the rear property line to provide year-round screening, which is shown in the green circles over there.

Those are the proposed trees.

Therefore, given all these site constraints and the mitigation efforts by the applicant, staff is of the opinion that the requested variance, if approved, would be consistent with the general purpose and intent of the zoning ordinance.

Therefore, staff recommends approval of variance case V-26-0008, subject to the following conditions.