Okay, we'll call the City Board of Zoning Appeals to order October 26, 2026.

Clicker caller.

Jerry

Goose.

Tom Donahue.

Here.

Reed Stanle.

Here.

Mike Fergal.

Yeah.

And Rob Driver.

Here.

Okay,

we're here today to talk uh hold the public hearing in possible approval of zoning variants for Frank Mayer.

1121, 21st Avenue.

Any discussion?

We

do have Jeff Nysitz who's online with us.

Uh he worked closely with uh Frank.

Yep, Frank.

So Jeff, do you have anything to say at the

moment?

Yeah.

Well,

either way, the applicant is um applied for a variance from the 20 foot or for a 25-foot rear setback to allow construction of a about 1300 uh square foot two-story addition to his existing property.

Um the hardship that is kind of presented before you is that there's not a whole lot of property back there.

He actually purchased property from his backside neighbor to put this addition on.

Um so with that being said, you're looking to reduce that setback so that he can put that addition on his property.

So if you could just you know explain what you explained before and uh dealing with the neighbors in the north and to the neighbor to the west.

Yes, it just pushes it.

Yep, it'll light red on you.

Okay, can you hear me?

Yep.

Um yeah, so the neighbor to the north and I shared a property, a driveway and a garage.

And it's just not a good idea to have that continue.

So I thought even if I had sold the property at some point, it's gonna be hard to sell a property with an attached um a shared driveway and a shared garage.

Luckily, all the neighbors I had in the past were you know very accommodating.

Um and then John had been asking John Carpenter, he's the neighbor to my north for a few years to purchase the property, and last year he agreed because he wants to do in a detached garage from his house and take that money survey it and buy some land from the neighbor to the north.

So um I agreed, but part of the agreement was that his garage had to come off of the property, and I was willing to like if I could have just bought it, but it would have been on his land, so there was no way to not tear it down and and get rid of it.

So

and

he was kind of anxious about like you know, are you gonna make a decision?

I'm like, okay, I you know, so

that's where we're

at.

But there's no property from the west that you're taking that you're they bought either, right?

No,

um Jeff Jeff, I I originally asked Jeff before this happened, I met with Jeff twice, and I even have an email stating like is there any um I said I don't want to do this unless I have a viable plan, you know.

I don't want to tear the garage down.

Well he met with me out there and said, Well, if you buy 25 feet of your of the neighbor to the south and to the west of me, which is Twitty, um, he said you could build a detached garage.

And I asked Jeff, and Jeff goes, well, I'm not one of sell you that, you know, and and I I've talked to other people, and they said if you have a chance to buy any property, you should take it because nobody ever sells any property.

So then Jeff came out there and we said, Well, he goes, probably your best option is to do an attached garage because your property is actually 85 feet deep, and I think there's a different variance for an 85 foot deep private property that's or that's under under 100 feet, so it's not quite as much.

Um, I don't I think the required setback is 18 feet or 17 feet versus 25.

So he he said that that's what we should do, and you should apply for a variance.

So

all

your

so

all your neighbors are aware of what you want to do.

Yes, both I mean I have a letter from my neighbor, um John.