5117 23RD AVE W 2016-01-01 MF Import

� S` " �'` . :--. :i NOTICE OF CITY ACTION PLANNING DIRECTOR DETERMINATION II.B./25-94 Dear Citizen: TNTRODUCTION: The City of Everett has received an application from James Benthuysen for a Planning Director�s Determination on the proposed addition to a single family residence at 5117 23rd Avenue West. The applicant has requested continued use of the 25 foot buffer as deck and yard area to allow for reasonable use of the property. Over half of the eastern portion of the property slopes at an angle of over 25� towards Narbeck Creek ana is therefore considered an environmentally sensitive area (ESA) by the City of Everett 2oning Code. Section 37.100 .C.4 requires a 25 foot buffer beyond the top of bank of this slope. Section 37.050 .D of the zonina code allows the reduction of building setbacks or buffers through a Review Process IIB. The Planning Director, using Review Process IIB. , is authorized to ". . .approve, disapprove or approve with ,conditions the use proposed by the applicant" (Subsection 42.100.B) . If no appeal is filed in response to the Planning Director�s determination, the decision will be considered final. If an appeal of the decision is filed, such an appeal must be submitted to the City�s Hearing Examiner. As a property owner within 300 ' feet of the subject property, this notice is to inform you that the Planning Director has issued a determination on the proposed action as described below. �CKGROUND: The property is zoned R-S, Suburban Residential. A addition of approximately 188 square feet is proposed to be constructed onto an existing single family residence with a building footprint of approximately 2 ,162 square feet. The addition will replace an existing deck at the east side of thE� house. See attached site plan. �INDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS: Section 37 .050.B states that nothing in the ESA ordinance is intended to preclude reasonable economic use of property as set forth herein. If the requirement of this ordinance as applied to a specific lot would deny all reasonable economic use of the lot, development will be permitted if the applicant demonstrates all of the following to the satisfaction of the Planning Director: