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CITY OF PORTLAND, MAINE
Zoning Board of Appeals

Zoning Board of Appeals Committee

DATE: 12/2/2010
TIME: 6:30 PM
LOCATION: 389 Congress Street - City Hall
Room 209
AGENDA

1. New Business:
APractical Difficulty Variance Appeal: 236 Pleasant Avenue, Barbara & Clifford Bagley, owners, Tax Map 133, Block G, Lot 014, R-5 Residential Zone: The applicants are seeking a variance from the minimum land area per dwelling unit requirement. The legal use of the property is two dwelling units. A third dwelling unit exists on the third floor. The applicants would like to keep the third unit, but the property does not meet the minimum land area per dwelling unit requirement for three dwelling units. Section 14-117(a)(2)(a) states that the land area per dwelling unit requirement for a multiplex is 6,000 square feet. The applicants’ lot is 4,900 square feet instead of the 18,000 square feet required. Representing the appeal are the owners.