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/PRIL 24, 2008 DANE COUNTY BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT PUBLIC HEARING STAFF REPORTS 1. Appeal 3523. Appeal by Thomas J. and Barbara Lowe for variances from minimum required lot width at the building setback line and minimum required lot area for an existing substandard platted lot in the Shoreland District as provided by Sections 11.03(1) and 10.05(4), Dane County Code of Ordinances, to permit additions to single-family residence as constructed at 7876 Fish Lake Road, being Lot 10, Gaukel's Fish Lake Subdivision, Section 03, Town of Roxbury. OWNER: Thomas J. and Barbara Lowe AGENT: Same LOCATION: 7876 Fish Lake Road ZONING DISTRICT: R-3 Residential and Shoreland — Fish Lake COMMUNICATIONS: Town of Roxbury— 03/13/2008Acknowledgement; 04/23/2008 Email for Robert Pings, Clerk: "Town of Roxbury has no problem with the variance request from Thomas & Barbara Lowe as long they have all county permits. They have Town permits." 04/24/2008 Email from Cami Peterson, Water Regulations and Zoning Specialist, WDNR: "No comments" Facts of the Case: Existing: • Shoreland lot is 16,604 SF and 69.95 feet at ROW line Fish Lake Road, per current survey. (Original lot platted in 1957 showed 70.00 feet at ROW.) Lot does not meet minimum width of 100 feet at building setback line or minimum lot area for unsewered lots of 20,000 SF in Shoreland district. • Lot includes Lowe's house: 24.4'x20.4' with 10'x12.4' enclosed porch on south side and 6'x12.3' pump house/shed addition on north side. There formerly was a concrete stoop at the south porch exit door. Lowe replaced the stoop with a 5'x9' "landing " (deck and steps). The house (built in 1961, according to Lowe) with all current additions meets minimum side yard, setback from OHWM and maximum lot coverage requirements. • House and lot have been affected by high water levels of Fish Lake in recent years. • Lowe obtained a building permit (not in file) from the Town Building Inspector, according to his statement, to remove and replace pump house/shed on existing footprint, replace some structural members of existing porch and add the landing/deck. He did not obtain a Dane County Zoning Permit Zoning Notes: • Similar variances, were granted 07/26/2007, under Appeal 3482, to Leonard Porter, the neighbor to the north of Lowe, for variances to minimum lot width and area in the Shoreland district, and for minimum setback from OHWM, allowing removal of a 10'x24' three-season porch, which was replaced with a four-season room on the same footprint. (A variance to allow a proposed 8'x13.5' foot deck on the lake side of the new room was abeyed. Porter did not return to the Board with the requested survey documentation needed for action on the deck; he has steps to a patio instead.) History • ZP 27674 for 6'x12' storage addition to SFR issued to Lowe in 1977. VARIANCES REQUESTED: Purpose: Allow additions/alterations to single-family home, as constructed. Variances needed for: Minimum required lot area: 20,000 SF Actual Lot Area: 16,604 +- SF Variance needed: 3,396 +- SF Minimum required lot width at the building setback line 100 feet Actual Lot width at building setback line: 69.95 feet Variance needed: 30.05 feet