Good evening. You are attending a session of the city of Jacksonville Beach's board of adjustments. Uh board adjustment meetings are quasi judicial in nature. All decisions of the board will be based on competent substantial evidence including testimony provided in
this meeting. Any person who is not an applicant or agent that wishes to speak will need to fill out a speaker card located on the side table by the door and turn them into the clerk. Each member of the public will be given three minutes to speak on each item. Please refrain from speaking from the audience
and applause or cheering will not be allowed. Please silence your phones. Can we have a roll call, please? >> Owen Curley >> here. >> Jeff Trouard >> here. >> Matt Meds >> here. >> Douglas Dell >> here.
>> Okay. Uh, next on our agenda is the approval of minutes. We have two minutes to approve the December 2nd and December 16th from 2025. Um, is there a motion? >> I make motion to approve the minutes for December 2nd and December 16th.
Is there a second? >> Second. >> Okay, it's moved and seconded. All in favor? >> I >> opposed. Okay, the minutes have been approved. Uh, is there any correspondence? >> No correspondence. I don't see any.
Okay. Uh, and we have no old business. So, let's call the first new business case. >> Board calls case number BOA25-100092. Property address 1289 North 2nd Avenue. Motion to consider sections 34-611 echo1 Charlie 2 for an easterly yard setback
of 5T in L of 10 ft. 34-611 echo1 delta for a carport in L of a onecar garage at an existing single family home located at the previously mentioned address. >> Okay. As a reminder, each member of the public will be given three minutes to speak when we open the public hearing.
Does any board member have any exparte communication? >> I've had none. >> I've had none. >> I've had none. >> And I've had none. Would the applicant please come forward to be sworn in and give their presentation? >> And that microphone's muted. If you'll just press the button. Thank you. >> Please raise your right hand, state your
name and address. >> Uh Daniel Lowry, 1289 Second Avenue North. >> Sheila Lowry, 1289 Second Avenue North. Do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give in this matter is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to help you
God? >> Yes. >> Yes. Okay. >> Okay. Go ahead, sir. Or ma'am. >> Um, so, uh, we purchased this home in 2018. Um, around 2020, we converted, uh,
the existing garage or garage, uh, to a functional room, you know, as our family grew. Um, and now we're looking to, you know, add a carport to the sideyard. Uh, the current setback, you know, and the space that we have on the side is, I
think it was six and a half, seven feet, uh, which just barely fits a car. It doesn't really allow any opportunity to open those doors or anything like that. Um so you know working with a residential designer and help helping us to understand you know what was a reasonable request as where the uh
setback of 5T uh gives us that additional space uh to have a carport on that sideyard. >> Okay I see. Okay. Do any board members have any questions for the applicant? >> I had one question. Uh, are you moving the shed? >> I'm sorry.
>> Are you moving the shed? >> Moving the shed? No. >> Because you look at I was looking at the plans in one plan. It's on the property line. Second line, it's not in the property line. It's I don't think it's decision making, but you look at the one. >> Well, I'll clarify. So, like with it'll be a second uh part of our home improvement project is to uh redo the
shed and replace the shed uh because it is, you know, becoming dilapitated. Uh so I think part of that uh we anticipate that it will need to come off like I think when it was originally built I don't know if the rules were different uh that it is on the property line so yes it will >> eventually move it'll conform. Yes.
>> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Just kind of curious looking at two plans of solvance. >> Thank you. >> So that shed does exist. >> Yes. >> Okay. All right. How about the pool? Does that does that exist? >> The pool does exist. Yes. >> Okay. >> And the pool is compliant with I guess
the property line for the setbacks. There's some scale. I assume that you guys both have >> pool has different setbacks than >> I think the setback is five feet for a pool if I recall. >> Just make sure you don't have to come back as work. >> Yeah, sure. >> Understood. >> The uh carport versus the required
garage. Can you speak a little bit to the the determination toward getting the carport versus extending the property toward a garage to meet the the garage requirement? Uh, I mean to me like can I interpret that question as requesting the same step back and doing an enclosed
garage instead of a carport or >> Sure. Yeah, that that's a reasonable way. >> I would say just cost like the we're really just looking to um you know uh help us with the elements as it relates to parking the car underneath shade or
you know having a place to park when it's raining uh and not requiring you know a full enclosed garage. So, of course, the cost we expect is significantly less to do the carport over a garage. So, you could say cost is the driving factor to for that.
>> Have you spoken to your neighbors about this? >> Yes. >> And uh what was their response? >> Uh no contacts, no concerns, a great relationship with everybody uh in our circle. >> Okay. >> Just on parking wise, Steve, where do you park the car now? house in the space
where the carport's going to be or >> No, they're in the driveway today. Um, you know, we do have multiple vehicles and we are looking to also um include a golf cart in the future. So, you know, it's a number of vehicles uh that uh
take up the paper driveway that's there today. >> Okay. >> Um so, yes. >> Thanks. >> Okay. Any other questions for the applicant? Okay, sir, you could step back, please. >> I will now open the public hearing. Do
we have any speakers cards? >> No. Okay. Is there anyone in the audience who has not filled out a speaker card that wishes to speak? Okay. No. I will now close the public hearing and bring the item back to the board for discussion. Is there a motion?
I make a motion to approve BOA number 25-100090 based on the substantial competent evidence presented in the staff report and all relevant testimony presented at this hearing and that the motion meets all the standards for a variance as outlined in section 34-572
of the Jacksonville Beach Land Development Code. >> A second. >> Okay, it's moved and second. Any discussion? >> Seems reasonable. Uh I would just say that uh it is conforming in lot size but it's the shape that is not conforming
>> composition of the house and y >> right and that it was built at a uh at a time before the LDC the prior LDC was was >> the west side is the road anyway >> right? Yeah. >> Okay. Anybody else?
>> No. I'm still just trying to contextualize briefly trying to look in the code what the requirement is on the garage um versus a carport because to the lot itself if the requirement in RS1 is that there is a garage
like carport I don't think satisfies that. I'm trying to look at what the hardship is that that prevents the garage. I don't know if it would be the proximity to the the sideyard and an enclosed structure would provide some differing obstacle to a neighboring
property. But if we could just take a moment to >> Yeah, >> I'm trying to find um since it's on the corner since it's on corner that's the lally the only place he could put the carport or a garage. um if he were to
put it there, he would have to do 20% of the width of the um property and that would literally put him on the house. So, putting it there kind of satisfies the kind of satisfies the hardship cuz one um he will be conforming for having more parking spaces cuz he already has
what you have two on your regular parking spot. >> Yeah. How much do you park on your um >> today? >> Three today. So, three and then carport is only requires one. So, and he's not able to get the other two
cuz four is required, but it was already converted into a the garage that existed already converted into um living space. So, it's not really any illogical place for him to have anything. >> Yeah, I think the question is with the same footprint that's proposed where
it's a carport being proposed, could that be a garage? And if it could be and garage is the requirement, then what's the hardship that makes a carport appropriate to approve from a board? >> Because if he would do a garage, it
would have to be bigger because um the garage requires to fit two cars in there and the carport only requires one. >> Okay. You can't do a onecar garage and the requirement has to be a twocar garage and there's not width for a two-car garage. >> Yeah. I think that shows the hardship and I think uh as previously stated by
the other board members the width of the lot is substandard relative to the requirement of 90 ft uh which which shows clear and demonstrated hardship with the property as it exists today. >> Okay. Uh any more discussion?
Okay. Can we have a roll vote please? >> Jeff Trullard. >> Yes. >> Matt Matz. >> Yes. >> Douglas Dell. >> Yes. >> Owen Curley. >> Yes. Your request for a variance has been approved. Thank you. Uh okay, that's the end of our new
business. We're on to the planning department report. Um last time we spoke, we had three new members. However, um now we only have two new members. We'll be training them next week and hopefully they'll be at our next meeting on the 20th and that meeting will have four cases. And then
the one after that will be February 6th and that will have um two cases and that's about it. >> Okay. >> Do we need to schedule a time or are we going to extend the existing >> uh do we need to we need to schedule a
organizational meeting for the elections? >> Elections I guess. So we usually do we usually do them here I believe don't we? Yeah, we do them in here, but do we have a date for >> Does it have to be >> specifically determined at all?
>> I'll talk to um to Jody in the clerk's office and I'll get back to you guys for that. >> And I guess we should wait for the new board members or should we just I mean conceivably? >> Yeah. Yeah, because they'll they'll be here the next meeting because we'll train them next Tuesday and then after they're sworn in the beginning, we'll be probably able to do it next meeting. But
I'll check majority just to make sure everything's okay. >> Okay. Just let us know what how you want us to roll. All right. Uh, courtesy of the floor to visitors. Anyone? Anyone? Okay. Is there a motion to adjurnn? >> I move.
>> Second. >> Okay. So, moved and seconded. All in favor? I >> opposed. >> Thank you. 11 minutes.