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d' "`PURPOSE February 14, 1979 APPLICATION FOR VARIANCE VN-20.2, CARLEY FOUNDRY. To consider an application of Carley Foundry to permit parking in a side street yard in an industrial district. BACKGROUND APPLICANT: Carley-Foundry LOCATIONz .'808 1st Street S.W., generally north of 1st S.W., west of 8th Avenue S.W. and east of Old Highway #8. ZONING: I-2, Heavy Industrial The applicant is proposing to create a 20' x 48' parking area on the east side of the existing structure in order to park two-truck trailers side by side. A variance is required because the zoning code states-that off-street parking is not permitted in a side street yard. As indicated by the attached site plan, the applicant is presently using the front yard for customer parking and the rear yard for employee parking. The applicant obtained a variance from the City in 1973 to allow the front yard parking. The eastern portion of the site is sodded and the parking area would reduce this strip by 20' which would result in a 20' landscaped area adjacent to the parking area. According to the New Brighton Zoning Code, the City Council can allow a modification of the literal provisions of the ordinance by granting a variance if the applicant demonstrates that there are undue hard- ships or unique circumstances. In this specific variance reques t the applicant has a somewhat unique circumstance in the fact that the site is enclosed on three sides by public streets and bounded to the rear by railroad right-of-way. .The applicant indicates that a hardship would result if the additional parking was not permitted because the parking space is necessary to the operation of the business. In examining the attached site applicant designed the parking amount of traffic which would. There is a very limited amount this is a deadend street. The the front yard adjacent. to 1st plan it should be noted -that the area on the street side with the least reduce the impact of the parking area. of traffic on 8th Avenue S.W, because, street side along Old Highway #8 and Street S.W, will remain landscaped..