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Show Resident Protests Expected Hist. Zone Change Hearing Set A a in Hr-1 zone and a triplex on a 5,625 sq. ft. lot. A similar multiplier has been suggested for the HCB zone that covers the historic Main Street commercial district. dist-rict. That multiplier would be 4.0 which means a building no larger than four times the underlying lot could be built. Below ground levels are not counted nor are balconies. New buildings build-ings on Main St. with two levels above ground need not provide off street parking, according to the proposal, but those rising higher must include appropriate parking facilities. According to the plan, new Main St. buildings can be no higher than 30 f( ;t facing the street but may reach a height of 45 ft. in the rear. Finally, a new zone is proposed to be added to the area to cover commercial development that extends into a residential zone. The new zone would apply to ;Main St. commercial developments de-velopments that extend through to residentially zoned Park Ave. or to Swede Alley commercial developments develop-ments extending to residentially residen-tially zoned Marsac. The zone is proposed to allow the commercial extensions, but to preserve the residential integrity or scale of Park or Marsac side property. below natural grade. Additionally, Addi-tionally, a house built on a single lot could have a garage no wider than 10 ft. which excludes parking two cars. Ligety said a two car garage on a single lot would extend accross the entire front of the structure and would not allow for a street-level front door, unless un-less it was located inside the garage. Gunnerson claims the square footage restrictions create severe problems on downside lots with steep grades. He said, given a single downside lot, it would be difficult to build high enough to see over the house below and remain within the square footage restrictions. "You would either have to build your house on stilts with wasted space below or build a five floor tower with 300 sq. ft. on each floor." he said. Residents generally agree new construction should fit in with the historic scale of the area, but many still feel the sqare footage multiplier is too restrictive. Initially a 25 ft. maximum height clause was contained in the proposal. That has now been increased to 28 ft. and a section regulating roofline pitches has been dropped. The proposal allows a duplex on a 3,750 sq. ft. lot A public hearing on proposed pro-posed zone changes for Park City's historic areas is expected to draw a large crowd this Thursday at. 5 p.m. in the Memorial Building. Build-ing. The changes have, been endorsed by the Historic District Commission, and the Planning Commission is scheduled to make a decision on the proposal at it's Dec. 15 meeting. Throughout a series of public hearings the proposed zone changes have been received positively, for the most part, by residents with the exception of a square footage limitation suggested for residential construction' in the HR-1 zone. The new zone proposal, drafted primarily by Planning Plan-ning Director Bill Ligety, would reduce the minimum building lot size in HR-1 to 1,875 sq. ft., or a single traditional. Park City lot of 25 feet by 75 feet. Two years ago the lot size was increased to minimum of a lot and a half or 37 ft. by 75 ft. Ligety said the decreased lots will hopefully encourage more single family residential residen-tial construction in HR-1. The planner added the lot and a half minimum created an incentive to build duplexes duplex-es because only an additional half lot was required under the zoning to allow a twin home. Ligety said the ordinance overall is designed to preserve pre-serve and enhance the historic integrity of the old -esidential area and to retain he historic scale of the neighborhood. The move toward traditional tradition-al 25 by 75 lots has been applauded, but a square footage multiplier proposed to limit the size and scale of new construction in the zone has been sharply criticized by some residents. Initially, the proposal suggested sug-gested a multiplier of .9 be employed. That means, for simplicity purposes, a building build-ing no larger than 1,800 sq. ft. could be built on a 2,000 sq. ft. lot. The original proposal called for garages to be counted in the square footage which meant given a double garage, a building on a single 25 by 75 lot could contain little more than 1,200 sq. ft. of liveable space. Park City resident LaMont Gunnerson, a strong opponent oppon-ent of the plan, has spoken openly at public hearings claiming the city can't tell a property owner what size house he or she can build. Gunnerson charges the city can't expect people to live in 1,200 sq. ft. houses if they need and want something larger, and has openly asked for Ligety's resignation. The zone proposal has now been ammended so that garages are not counted, nor are underground basements or portions of a structure that lie below natural grade. Houses that have portions above ground but below natural grade are found on down side lots with steep grades. In seciding not to count garages, the planners have also decided to reduce the multiplier from .9 to .75. That means notwithstanding a garage, a house on a single lot could be no larger than 1 ,475 sq. ft. providing it had neither a subterranean basement base-ment nor portions lying |
