7211 RAINIER DR BASE FILE 2018-01-01 MF Import

� 1 Question #5 Narrative Statement: The Use-Standards Table for R-3 zone, secrion 12 of the �verett Zoning Code requires a 20-foot front yard setback between front structures and the property line. (See �ttachment "A".) Zoning code section # 34.060 - "G" requires that no intemal aisles or roadways be permitted in front set-back areas. The code also requires a planting strip adjacent roads at the front of a property. ( See attachment "C" and "D".) We are requesting a variance from the above reg3lations such that we may use required front yard set-back space for driving and for a fire lane. a: The variance requested will not be materially detrimental to the property in the area or to the city as a whole because the net effect of the proposed project will produce more "green belY'buffering landscape between adjacent propertie: than the zoning code requires. The entire 40-foot wide street West of and adjacent to the property, for the enrire frontage length of the property, shall become a greenbelt between properties The street cannot be used by the city because a stream flows down the middle of the street which, if put into LL culvert, would impact water quality downstream. ( The stream flows into Pigeon Creek#1.) b. The variance is necessary because of sever:.l exceptional and extraordinary circumstances. The exceptional circumstances include: 1. From 'he north there is only one point of access for vehicles because topography has prohibited street improvements along most of the northem propert}� boundary.