To: HILLSIDE BUILDING COMMITTEE
From: Paul Mood, P.E.
Town Engineer
Date: March 14, 2018
Subject: Hillside designation removal of property located at 4554 E. McDonald (APN: 169-50-003). Application for Hillside designation removal.
Background
The property is 1.01 acres and located one lot east of the northeast corner of McDonald Drive and 45th Street The property contains a 2,734 ft.? single family residence constructed in 1963 and is designated as a hillside lot on the Town's zoning map.
Request For Hillside Designation Removal
This property owner intends to remodel and add onto the existing home and is requesting that the hillside designation be removed. The Town has removed hillside designations in the past if the average lot slope and building pad slope are less than 10%. The subject property has an average lot slope of approximately 2.93% and a building pad slope of approximately 1.54% percent. For more information please refer to the Civil Engineering plans for the slope analysis diagrams and calculations.
Hillside Development Regulations:
The Town first adopted hillside regulations in 1984 which designated the subject property as a hillside lot. In October 2003, the Town repealed and adopted a new set of hillside regulations via Ordinance 533. The 2003 hillside regulations, along with three minor amendments to these regulations, are the most current Hillside Development Regulations. The subject property retained its designation as a hillside lot.
The Hillside Development Regulations define the Hillside Development Area as the following:
Those areas marked in FIGURE 2 and to all lands where the natural terrain under the building pad has a slope of ten percent (10%) or greater, whether shown in FIGURE 2 or not. However, a 10% or greater slope, in an area not denoted on Figure 2, created by a natural wash on land that otherwise would not be classified as hillside land shall be exempt from the hillside regulations.
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