So the city of Tempe Board of Adjustment meeting for 2025 now 610.

Tempia authorized by statute temp is believed of the zoning result property hardship of the zoning ordinance appeal city officials responsible enforcement.

The board has the city of Texas community development staff reports on the considered at this meeting and use in their deliberations.

That's fine.

Members of the board, we have a quorum.

Introduction development director uh Jeff.

We have Deputy Director's Attorney Mansfield.

We have Diane Kaminsky, the principal planner.

Uh tonight we'll be hearing Lucas the planner.

And our and Jason and we will try to keep our mic on.

Uh during public hearing.

Uh when you're working, please make sure you fill down the citizens' request forms.

I have uh by the uh when I call your name uh you can step up to the microphone, you'll have three minutes uh the time we have um we have first item is the consideration of the meeting minutes from our last meeting, which was all the way back in November of 2024.

Do I board up the meeting?

Have a motion regarding that of that meeting of the meeting minutes.

I have uh second approved.

I have a second.

Um all those three.

Do I have to not there's the minutes are approved?

Second item is the variance to reduce the required setback the required feet to one feet for a detached accessory building and zoning district all residents located at 1659 North Central.

First we'll be hearing from the applicant.

Do I have the applicant?

Good evening.

Thank you for allowing us today.

We're time, so we will be um Powell, and this is my husband Dave.

We are here for the setback variants from eight for the accessible building in our backyard at 1659 North Circle Drive.

Just to tell you a little bit uh in our home for 10 years, and I've lived there for the we love hiking to the park time residence.

We have pride in our yard.

I was told to work from home, which well is terrible.

This next in the pantry.

Um but we were told office desk and a chair.

Um I was hoping our bedroom have a little it hear the dogs.

home which well terrible this next in the pantry um but we were told box office desk and a chair um i was hoping our bedroom um little it hear the dogs uh they knew i was there so they do the space is really cramped in addition to getting used to working from home full I couldn't get away from work because right next to uh we office outside of the house would give me privacy and give us extra room for some family and my son also lives with us he has to work in the office when I have cameras required the office in the corner because our yard is shut and it would do to the slopes and the to work with um we have a lot of ex avoid us having to that location have some slides and would like to briefly if you think support our so I speak this uh first one that you can just wanted to give you a glimpse of what it looks like uh and you can situate uh this office or this perfectly with our house with the house it has the same it has the change blends very well not that it from the street or anything but it does very well with the house and it's it's addition to our backyard um second basically gives uh an aerial view of of the perspective of how uh is situated in the I'll go into detail in a second just gives you an back even though they're off this is flat map of lot number six highlighted in green and you can see that it's it's more of a cul de sac so the large part of the lot is in the front of the property and it narrows considerably in the back side of the lot um you can see that the uh surrounding of various in general most of the lots in the neighborhood are shape range 75 to some of them at a hundred feet lots in the neighborhood to way over large portion is in the back see from this our the back of our lot only six feet property in the back shape project in our neighborhood uh all of them are 40 feet we're not necessarily unique is that most that are rectangular 70 to 90 and uh in dimensions this slide here gives a little better perspective of uh then the back this is the plan for the property and see the three highlighted colors the having excuse me in addition to having the narrow back have a terraced or and you can see the highlighted is the portion uh terrain is actually with our alley and the office uh is it on that level it's an at grade with health and the hard scaper highlighted in the are actually sixteen inches lower uh the tier highlighted in yellow where the office is towards the uh two feet by the time you get to the so from the sidewalk to the alley or the low area 36 to 43 inches in uh elevation change and grade change so you can see that um we have these issues severely constrained the the placement of the office it's kind of a minor uh characteristic of the lot is that goes from the the house out to the kind of clip so we're

So you can see that we these issues are severely constrained the placement of the office.

Is that goes from the house out to kind of clip so we're not to build on top of the sewer line in the event that at some point in the past maybe 15 years the sewer line uh that could go again so we have uh issue building on top of the last two pictures a little more perspective.

This is from uh the lower uh get a feel for it with the pathway up to the alley.

You can see the office sitting on in that portion of the yard basic understanding of the positioning just you can see the house and and so that just shows that uh this lot has the uh narrowing and the constraints, which really limited us to one of the building.

Uh we have general overview.

Appreciate you taking the time listening to us tonight and uh to speak as well.

So thank you.

I had one here.

Um the terrace in the backyard.

Is that something or is that something you did at some point?

It happened when the original C1 bought the house.

Now, but it's built up as the fences in the neighborhood that might even really go and already to kind of make it bring it up to more current uh appearances.

Uh but yes, uh both sides of the bed appears in place.

In addition, the patioscape were was exactly all of that was already there.

Okay.

Tonight we're here requesting that back from to one foot accessory building zone sixteen feet circle drive.

Um in the cavalier tempe uh the accessories in the with without building permits and on Maricopa County area sometime between 2023.

So right are some additional photos provided applicants.

Um the first is the west side of the property.

This you know, at the ex home with the accessory building in the rear from the the outline, and then change um same photo that they showed before you from the rooftop as well.

Accessory building, uh the zoning and development code for detached accessory buildings is gonna um the height of that back of that structure, rather, will be a accessory building, requires a side and rear property lines.

Um I'll show you those setbacks we move on to the plan.

It's important to note is measured from grade.

Um the top of the set of the front um to a local grade.

So we're taking that measurement at that that lower structure measurement, accounting for that of this structure.

The shows building located in the back of the property uh property the northwestern or um in the is actually the the one on the with the designated as a side setback.

Um require an minimum setback is requirement off of that side on the midpoint of the alleyway.