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CITY OF PORTLAND, MAINE
Zoning Boardof Appeals

Zoning Board of Appeals Committee

DATE: 5/17/2012
TIME: 6:30 PM
LOCATION: City Hall - 389 Congress Street
Room 209
AGENDA

1. New Business
AInterpretation Appeal: Sumner Court & R 53-55 Cumberland Avenue, Sumner Court Land Company, LLC, owner, Tax Map 013, Block K, Lots 049 & 071, R-6 Residential Zone: The applicant is challenging the Zoning Administrator’s determination that the two lots are not lots of record and therefore have merged into one lot with a total square footage of 12,479 square feet. Since the lot is over 10,000 square feet, the applicant cannot develop the property under the criteria of the Small Residential Lot Development in the R-6 zone [section 14-139(2)]. Representing the appeal is the owner Ronald Gan and his attorney Thomas Jewell..
BPractical Difficulty Appeal: Sumner Court & R 53-55 Cumberland Avenue, Sumner Court Land Company, LLC, owner, Tax Map 013, Block K, Lots 049 & 071, R-6 Residential Zone: The applicant is proposing to develop this vacant lot. Section 14-139(1)(a) requires that a lot have a minimum street frontage of forty feet. The lot has twelve feet of street frontage on North Street at the end of Sumner Court. The applicant is requesting that the minimum required street frontage be reduced from forty feet to twelve feet. Representing the appeal is the owner Ronald Gan and his attorney Thomas Jewell..
2. Adjournment