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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMaterials distributed at meetingRECEIVED 8-22-17 Planning Commission Appeal I AUG 2 2 2017 Planning Services City of Arcadia Ladies and Gentleman my name is Tom Crosby and -this i like to thank you for the oppourtiny to hear our case. Excuse me if my speech gets garbled up, I had Brian surgery last December and I am still recovering some of my speech skills. We bought our house because it had a circular driveway with the plan to build our retirement home in the future. Then in 2105 we decided to build our retirement home and requested our designer to copy the same 1 car garage in the back, the 2 car attached to house, the same 3 point turn around area in the back, and the same circular driveway in the front. Note plan on page 3 of the Staff Report, and the Google Aerial Photo in Attachment No. 1. You will see it is almost a carbon copy of our original home as built in the 50's, to the plan that is attached. We were told in June 2015 when we submitted our plan with our circle driveway that had been on or property for 60+ years that no circle driveways were allowed in our Association? Yet the City Zoning Code allows lots with a 100' frontage to have a circle driveway? In 2016 we watched an investor buy 1301 San Carlos Rd. next door to our home and take several months to strip it down and gut all the, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, remodel the pool, new insulation, drywall, move the kitchen to the other side of the house, add new bathrooms, all new windows, all new appliances, and add about a 40' x 8' front porch, and basically build a New house which just sold in June 2017 of this year. Then a home at 1407 Oaklawn PI and the corner of San Carlos Rd. started construction about the same time we started ours in 2016. They stripped it down, gutted all the, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, remodel the pool, new insulation, and drywall, moved the kitchen to the other side of the house, add new bathrooms, all new appliances, all new windows, and basically build a New house. Both these homes had circle driveways and like ours built in the 50's, only they got to keep their circle driveways. Me and my wife decided in April 2017 to submit a request to the ARB to keep our circle driveway after seeing other two homes on San Carlos had been able to keep their circle driveways. We got denied by the ARB, and we filed this Appeal which brings us here today. My wife and are petitioning to keep our circle that has been our property 60+ years, just as these other two homes were able to keep their circle driveways. We believe it is fair, reasonable to keep our circle driveway and it complies with City Zoning Codes. We took your recommendations in you Jun 27, 2017 Staff Report and made the corrections to our request of a replacement of our circular driveway. The two 72" Oak trees have been placed on the lawn to resolve the drip line issue. We kept the screen hedge and beefed up the shrub layer on both sides of the front yard. We added more shrubs to reduce the visual impact. We also added Boxwood and other shrubs to reduce the view of the circular drive. We added flowering varieties to "distract" the view of the circular drive. We also placed the lighted columns along the circular driveway so they were not within the front yard setback area. There are about 190 homes that have circular driveways out of 452 homes in our HOA, or about 40% of the Tract was built in the 1950's with circular driveways and 60% were built with single driveways. We drove the homes in the area and feel the site design is now harmonious and compatible with or neighborhood, both the older homes as well as new homes. Attached is the plan and a rendering of the changes recommended on the June 27, 2017 Staff Report. Thank you for your time and consideration. Tom and Ellen Fu Crosby -a Te o¢ �i.', o 0 0 •.s .r ."i: w.i. r� p° 0 0 0 0 Fr �I .y1 log Irt oo��i�-• 4~ ��—_. �I. O O 0 0 rig p I,M�I9l�YWI �� go �•i'�!I[Rf1f161 I �y�� ��r� � tip,,_ IJ,a�.�E�► ® ®® _o r no ■ 1 Q9y®gaoogM.o..555555 oo 61p1� �y :" �F c .•�.re 1©op ra�ip�A � { E©�e .°�j' Ajo�TA, a r '• a,.0 °�.000`�oo�o 00o i!� VIA R. J 0l IBa SINGLE FAMILY HGUSE `".. TWO TREES LANDSCAPE .` DESIGN. INC. 3 c °„P3 �A gni seN uw.os xD. PLANTING PLAN .fit ,.... -••. ••-.. •...,.• ARCADV. CA. pm mmn ram......r.e....�..�e...m��a.u�vmn.w.u.wn..n.�w....ir...................u....w.................... wr..rrw u.,r we..n..i.�.e ie.wnr®..r m.�..rnr we..n.iwms vr... ■� � � «<2; a� 1