To:
Hillside Building Committee
From:
Hugo Vasquez; Hillside Development Administrator
Date:
September 12th, 2018
Subject:
Request for Hillside designation removal for the property located at 8020 N Mummy Mountain Road (APN 168-77-008).
Narrative:
The Applicant has requested that the Hillside designation be removed for the 5.09 acre property. This project has an application date of July 23rd, 2018 and will be reviewed under the current Hillside Development Regulations.
Background
The property located at 8020 N Mummy Mountain Road currently contains a 5,100 ft2 residential home and guest house constructed in 1972 and sits on a 5.09 acre lot. The lot is within the Hillside Development Area, per Figure 1 of the Hillside Development Regulations.
Hillside Development Regulations
The Town first adopted Hillside regulations in 1984, which designated the subject property as a Hillside lot. The current Hillside Development Regulations define the Hillside Development Area as:
Those areas marked in Figure 1 and to all lands where the natural terrain under the building pad has a slope of ten percent (10%) or greater, whether shown on Figure 1 or not. However, a 10% or greater slope, in an area not denoted in Figure 1, created by a natural wash on land that otherwise would not be classified as hillside land shall be exempt from the hillside regulations.
Request for Hillside Designation Removal
The subject property has a slope of 8.63% and a building pad slope of 9.43%. For more information, please refer to the Civil Engineering plans for the slope analysis diagrams and calculations. By removing the Hillside designation, the property would be required to conform with non-Hillside building regulations which allow for freestanding site walls, but reduces the overall maximum allowable height of the residence.
Section 2210 of the current Hillside Development Regulations provides the removal process:
The Hillside Building Committee and Town Council shall review p...
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