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DATE: October 16, 2017
TO: Planning Commission and City Council
FROM: Chris Boone, Director of Planning and Community Development
SUBJECT: Consider a request for a waiver to the sidewalk requirement along Calder Avenue.
FILE: 878-OB
STAFF REPORT
Planning staff recommends denial of the request.
Faust Engineering and Surveying, Inc is requesting a waiver to the sidewalk requirement
along Old Dowlen Road, due to the future widening of the right-of-way. While widening
of Old Dowlen Raod is planned, city funding is not available at this time.
With regard to the waiver, the ordinance states:
(3) The planning and zoning commission may grant a waiver to the sidewalk requirement
if the applicant can prove that there is an engineering reason for not installing a
sidewalk. (Chapter 26, Section 26.03.004 (3))
The applicant has not demonstrated any engineering reason for the request.
In addition, a new multi-family tax credit project is being built just to the north of this
property, and they are required to install a sidewalk for pedestrian access by the tenants to
shopping and restaurants along Dowlen Raod.
Exhibits are attached.