Columbus, Georgia

BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS





SPECIAL CALLED MEETING - 10:00 A.M. ? NOVEMBER 23, 2004





The Special Called Meeting of the Board of Zoning Appeals was held Tuesday,

November 23, 2004 at 10:00 A.M., on the 1st Floor of the Government Center

Annex, 420-10th Street. Members present were:







Mrs. Leah Braxton

Mr. Willie Lewis Jr.

Mr. Ralph King

Mr. Billy Edwards







Also present were Mr. Danny Cargill, Secretary of the Board, and Ms. Veronica

Pitts, Recording Secretary.





VARIANCE.





Case No. 04-V164?-Granted.



Bill Caudill, Senior Vice President of Phillips Construction and Thomas

Kendrick of Kendrick Realty, presented the appeal of Phillips Construction

Company, 324 Brown Avenue, for a variance to reduce the front yard setback

requirement from 20 feet to 5 feet, in order to erect a commercial building,

40? x 50?. The property is zoned C-3.



The variance needs to be amended to also address reducing the required number

of off-street parking from 1 to 0.



In their statements and in response to questions from the Board Members, Mr.

Caudill and Mr. Kendrick gave the following information: The building was

damaged by a windstorm and the roof collapsed. When the building was taken

down, two corners of the building were left standing and the existing slab.

They would like to erect a metal building warehouse for Kendrick Realty







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Company. The existing building is on the property line. If they slide the

building back to meet the current zoning which would be 20 feet back, the

building gets real close to the back property line, which has different

elevations. The adjacent property slopes from Andrews Road back about 15 or 16

feet and it would cause a hardship if a deep retaining wall was built to hold

that building up. They are asking to come within 5 feet of the property line

to gain access through the front. They are also asking to reduce the parking

from 1 to 0.



When the Chairperson asked for opposition, Herbert Highnote came

forward. He owns the adjacent property and wanted to know what was being

done. He was not in opposition.



Mr. Edwards made a motion, which was seconded by Mr. Lewis to grant

this appeal because the building will be on an existing slab and the topography

dictates that it needs to be closer to the road. Also, reduce the parking from

1 to 0. Motion carried by the affirmative vote of the four Board Members

present for this meeting.







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There being no further business to come before the Board,

the meeting adjourned at 10:15 p.m.















____________________ __________________

Leah Braxton, Bill Duck,

Chairperson Secretary





_____________________ __________________

David Fox, Danny Cargill,

Vice Chairperson Acting Secretary













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