“staff is recommending that the commission adopt the resolution approving a minor amendment to the master development plan for a building addition at 12520 Wisetta Boulevard. There are four votes needed for this item and it's a final decision subject to an appeal.”

“We're just pulling that front facade of their service reception part where you drive in, drop your car off for service, just expanding that just due to the um increase in volume that they're seeing. They just need more space for service and repair.”

“Yeah, just one more quick question. Um, as part of approval, building permit approval, um, are there um, sustainability or any energy efficient measures that are required as part of this also? And, and if so, what what might we see on that?”

“So, there's nothing that the staff can put on there or the city could for requiring uh sustainability items. It'll have to meet state building code for all of their energy requirements and things like that, but nothing that we've put out that's requirement on there that's been added to the resolution.”

“Yeah, I was going to say this is um looks like a very straightforward project. Um I don't have any problem with with approving this. I mean what they're adding is uh just a very very tiny percentage of the uh u of the whole building site existing uh the building and the site itself.”

“Variances are required for principal structures constructed less than 2 ft above the flood plane elevation and for accessory structures located less than 1.5 ft above the flood plane elevation. Because both the addition and deck and patio do not meet those standards, variances are necessary.”

“staff recommends that the planning commission adopt the resolution approving the variance to the minimum lowest floor elevation standard for the construction of an addition deck and patio to the existing single family home at 2606 Cedar Crest Road East.”

“When we use the term flood plane here, we're not talking about a FEMA designated flood zone like we would along Minihaha Creek or the lakes where there's actually a established FEMA elevation. And um, because I I think if that was the case, it'd be a whole different level of conversation here, right?”

“You may recall in 2023 the city updated its flood plane um model throughout the community um using the Atlas 14 information that Ms. Rooney um noted before. And so we found that um flood plane elevations based on that more specific data based on current conditions that that rose in certain areas that 100year. So that's what this is on.”

“When the 2023 remapping ran the flood plane through the property, they worked with us and our civil engineering firm uh to find a solution that fits the site rather than fight against it. So the result is our modest uh singlestory um addition over the walkout basement um that keeps you know uh storage balanced meets the flood plane setbacks through some grading and needs only a small variance because of our existing walkout floor uh carries that same elevation.”

“Um we've been at the home for uh just over 11 years and we've experienced no issues. Um our neighbors to the south um uh one of their letters is on file. They're the original owners of the home since 1958... they've never had any record of any issues of flooding or standing water or anything like that on their property”

“I'm in agreement with this uh recommendation by the city. Um it does seem reasonable given that the existing structure um is already below our um um required um 2T flood plane limits is what I was trying to say. And so, um, obviously it would be very, uh, difficult to, um, add it on to the addition of the home, uh, where that doesn't match.”