CASE NUMBER: PZ 23-017
APPLICANT: Carlton Gene Stephens
VARIANCE REQUEST: To vary Sec. 4-10, to construct an accessory dwelling unit and detached garage with heated floor area of 1200-sf, where the maximum allowed is 1000-sf.
Related PZ23-015 SPECIAL USE REQUEST: To construct a detached accessory dwelling unit, approximately 1,200 square feet above a proposed garage.
LOCATION: 3665 Forest Hill Road, Powder Springs, GA
ZONING: R-20 ACRES: 0.98 ac PIN: 19083200100
Staff Recommendation: APPROVAL. Planning and Zoning: APPROVAL.
BACKGROUND: Applicant is requesting a Special Use approval to construct an accessory dwelling unit (ADU), approximately 1200-sf (detached from principal dwelling unit) above a proposed garage (also detached from principal dwelling unit). Please see Sec. 4-10 (Appendix I) of the UDC. Table 2-2 provides that detached ADUs require Special Use Approval, and Sec 4-10 provides that the maximum heated floor area shall not exceed 100-sf.
SURROUNDING AREA: Please see Figure 1: Zoning Map. Figure 2: Front Elevation of Existing Structure, Figure 3: Aerial view of site, Figure 4: Floor plan of ADU, Figure 5: Elevation rendering of ADU, Figure 6: Site plan.
Figure 1. Zoning Map
Figure 2. Front Elevation.
Figure 3. Aerial Map.
Figure 4. Floor Plan
Figure 5. Proposed elevation of ADU.
Figure 6. Approximately scaled site plan. Legend: Blue line: State waters. Orange line: 50' stream buffer. Approx.
Figure 7. Site plan
ANALYSIS:
The application was reviewed against the following criteria:
Any applicant requesting consideration of a variance to any provision of this development code shall provide a written justification that one or more of the following condition(s) exist. The governing body shall not approve a variance application unless it shall have adopted findings that one or more of the following conditions exist:
1. There are extraordinary and exceptional conditio...
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