This application is the first that falls under the newly adopted missing middle housing standards and is a permitted use in the R1 zoning district.

West Haven consists of 16 smaller single family homes for those who wish to downsize and remain in the community. Our aim has always been to create a small, thoughtfully designed neighborhood that complements the area while meeting today's housing needs.

I find it hard to believe that an engineering firm would come up and say that there will be less water storm dam flow into the river crest community than there exists today. That sounds um foolish to me as a as a conclusion unless the developer has some type of storm drainage plan to handle the storm drain water within their complex.

So we have to uh to meet stormwater requirements for a site like this, we have to meet rate control, volume control, and water quality control. Um and those things have to be at at or below the existing condition for rates.

I too am supportive of a new housing type um, in the city of Bloomington. It's something we don't have. We don't have houses that look like this here... And I think it's a benefit to the community to add this type of housing stock um, in our city.

The presence of the power line that runs pretty much bisects the property uh creates a very unique condition to where they have to modify the building to be very close to Xerxes and American to stay out of that uh power line easement.

We are a builder, owner, developer, all in one house. We also manage our properties. We're a small company. We do about one project a year. Um, we own them long term. So, we're very interested in the long-term uh materials and the the design, the character of these properties.

I think that this is a slam dunk project... It looks much more like an urban character that we would expect from American Boulevard than what the setbacks would that if it were h have to abide by the setbacks that are strictly written into the code that it would look significantly different and not like what uh American Boulevard deserves.

The one thing that I do have a concern, actually there's two things I have a concern about. Um, one is that the what the parking um, to be honest, there is a coffee shop in the Wells Fargo Tower um, on the first floor and there's also a tailor in there. So, there are actually local businesses in there and when you go over there to actually use those businesses, the parking, it's full.

I too am in support of this. It's great to see an unused or undeveloped uh lot turn into uh higher density. I think it's terrific. It's a great location.

So with that um construction the uh existing sign needs to be reconstructed and um moved um in order to not conflict with um that construction of the Dicks House of Sports.

Because of the construction of those 20 foot walls, it really does necessitate um a kind of fine-tuning of th that location... The neighbor the neighbor is the freeway and and those using the freeway. And so there really there there really isn't any kind of detrimental impact to neighbors.

Where I start to struggle is on the setback... So the request is not to be made whole but the request is to be made more than whole... MDOT adding the highway there does not force them to have the sign closer to the street. The highway is not going through their property.

I'm gonna uh gently disagree with you on this. Um I think given the very unique aspect of the Southtown uh space and some of the challenges that the applicant uh referenced related to how things are currently laid out... I feel differently if it was almost anywhere other than 494, but I feel like there's so little character and control over the character of 494 that in a case like this, I would be willing to give the applicant the benefit of the doubt.

So, what we're looking at is practical difficulties. So, that's a it's a term of art used in statute is what you apply to look at when you grant a signed variance or a land use variance.