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Public Hearing Agenda - Board of Adjustment

The following items are scheduled to be heard at the Board of Adjustment public hearing.

Agenda Items
100 Lovelace Avenue, New Castle 19720
Area variance to maintain a dwelling 1.5 feet from the Jansen Avenue right-of-way (25-foot street yard setback. Ward & Taylor/Marcia Mcelwee. NC6.5 Zoning. CD 10. (App. 2012-0741-A) TP 10-009.20-014
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104 Deergrass Road, Hockessin 19707
Area variances to maintain an attached garage of a dwelling at 39 feet and to construct an open, covered porch 36 feet from the Deergrass Road right-of-way (40-foot street yard setback). Edward Paris/John and Mary Morris. NC15 Zoning. CD 3. (App. 2012-0742-A) TP 08-013.20-059
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24 Crestfield Road, Wilmington 19810
Area variances to maintain a detached garage 0 feet from the easterly side lot line (10-foot side yard setback) and to maintain a driveway 0 feet from the easterly side lot line (2-foot paving setback). Sydney Fleming Trustee. NC21 Zoning. CD 2. (App. 2012-0744-A) TP 06-014.00-163
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18 W. Market Street, Port Penn 19731
Area variance to construct a 1,440 square foot pole barn addition to an existing 320 square foot detached garage and the dwelling footprint measures 720 square feet (On a lot less than one acre, the gross floor area of any one freestanding accessory structure shall not exceed the square footage footprint of the principal dwelling unit). Dennis Lawrence. NC10 Zoning. CD 12. (App. 2012-0733) TP 13-010.09-014
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202 Riverview Avenue, Claymont 19703
Area variances to maintain a dwelling and an unpermitted detached garage: 1. to maintain a dwelling 16 feet from the Riverview Road right-of-way (25-foot street yard setback); 2. to maintain a dwelling 2 feet from the rear property line (25-foot rear yard setback); 3. to maintain a dwelling 3.5 feet from the easterly side lot line (6-foot side yard setback); 4. to maintain a detached garage 16 feet from the Riverview Road right-of-way (25-foot street yard setback and accessory structures shall not be constructed in the street yard setback); 5. to maintain a detached garage 11 feet from the rear property line (25-foot rear yard setback); and 6. to maintain a detached garage 4 feet from the westerly side lot line (6-foot side yard setback). Michael Sterling. NC5 Zoning. CD 8. (App. 2012-0619-A) TP 06-095.00-585
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400 Lenape Way, Claymont 19703
CONTINUED TO A DATE NOT YET DETERMINED. Area variances to construct a 34 square foot Claymont Library ground sign (including a 26 square foot Electronic Variable Message Sign) 0 feet from the Darley Road right-of-way, and to construct an 88 square foot Claymont Library wall sign (One wall or ground sign per building section with 20 square foot maximum sign area and 20-foot minimum setback). New Castle County Government. ST/Historic Overlay Zoning. CD 8. (App. 2012-0700-A) TP 06-059.00-002
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110 Corporate Boulevard, Newark 19702
CONTINUED TO A DATE NOT YET DETERMINED. Area variance to construct a 42 square foot ground sign (including a 30 square foot EVMS) 1 foot from the Route 896 right-of-way (25-foot sign setback). Tupp Signs/Reybold Group. BP Zoning. CD 11. (App. 2012-0743-A) TP 11-021.00-042
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0 Church Road (Rockwood and Church Roads) Newark 19702
Area variance to facilitate the construction a 90-unit, 128,568 square foot apartment building, 4 new five-space parking garages/storage buildings, and associated surface parking: to permit the disturbance of 100 percent of the subject property (50 percent maximum disturbance in a Water Resource Protection Area Recharge Area). Queensbury Village/Pettinaro. NCap Zoning. CD 12. (App. 2012-0745-A) TP 10-048-00-043
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39 Brookhill Drive, Newark 19702
Area variances to maintain and expand a recycling and storage yard on a parcel containing a Class A Wellhead Water Resource Protection Area, which will not be disturbed: 1. to expand paving 6 feet from I-95 and 23 feet from Brookhill Drive right-of-way (40-foot paving setback); 2. to provide 0 bufferyard opacity along I-95 (0.8 minimum bufferyard opacity); 3. to provide 0.3 bufferyard opacity along Brookhill Road (0.8 minimum bufferyard opacity); and 4. to provide 0.1 bufferyard opacity along the easterly and westerly side lot lines abutting other industrial properties (0.5 minimum bufferyard opacity).McBride & Ziegler/JFK Industries LLC. I Zoning. CD 11. (App. 2012-0746-A) TP 11-010.00-012
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132 Christiana Mall, Newark, DE 19702
Area variances to permit the construction of a 109,500 sq.ft. retail building, a 73,700 square foot cinema, and an associated parking lot expansion and associated signage: General 1. to permit a 19.07 percent Landscape Surface Ratio/23.330 acres. (20 percent minimum required LSR/24.472 acres.); 2. to construct seven 52.5-foot high light poles and four 37.5-foot light poles (30-foot maximum height is permitted); 3. to construct a 90 foot high shopping center ground sign (45-foot maximum height is permitted) 4. to construct a 935 square foot shopping center ground sign (300 square feet maximum is permitted); 5. to construct an Electronic Variable Message Sign (EVMS may be substituted for another permitted sign, but no other permitted signs are available); 6. to construct a 432 square foot EVMS, which is part of the 935 square foot shopping center sign identified above (50 square feet maximum sign area permitted); 7. to construct an EVMS with message display fixed for 30 minutes (12-hour minimum fixed display required); 8. to construct 6 instructional signs with an area of 23.9 square feet each (4 square foot maximum area permitted); 9. to construct 4 instructional signs with an area of 40 square feet each (4 square foot maximum area permitted); Retail Building 10. to permit a 4.8-foot paving street yard setback along Interstate 95 (25-foot street yard paving setback is required); 11. to permit 0 bufferyard opacity along Interstate 95 (0.4 minimum bufferyard opacity is required); 12. to permit 0 street trees along Interstate 95 (5 street trees required); Cinema 13. to construct a 419.6 square foot wall sign (300 square foot maximum area permitted); 14. to construct a roof sign 0 feet from the outside building wall (minimum 5-foot setback from outside building wall required); 15. to construct a roof sign 50 feet above the roof (25-feet/maximum of one-half building height of 50 feet permitted); 16. To construct a roof sign in lieu of a permitted ground sign or wall sign (a roof sign may be substituted for another permitted ground sign or wall sign, but no other permitted signs are available); 17. to construct a 666 square foot roof sign (300 square feet maximum sign area permitted); 18. to construct total wall sign area of 1,914.7 square feet, including the 666 square foot roof sign (1,294.5 sq.ft. maximum permitted sign area along the westerly facade); 19. to construct a total wall sign area of 938.3 square feet, including the 666 square foot roof sign (584.75 sq.ft. maximum permitted sign area along the northerly facade). Christiana Mall LLC. CR Zoning. CD 1 (App. 2012-0711-A). TPs 09-024.00-010, 09-024.00-019, 09-024.00-020, 09-024.00-021, 09-024.00-022, 09-024.00-023, 09-024.00-024, 09-024.00-025, and 09-024.00-035
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1080 Old Lancaster Pike, Hockessin 19707
CONTINUED TO A DATE NOT YET DETERMINED. Area variances to facilitate the rezoning and recordation of a major residential subdivision to create 46 residential dwelling lots: 1. to vary the dwelling unit mix requirement to provide a minimum of 3.7 percent of any dwelling unit type and a 90 percent maximum of any dwelling unit type (a 70 percent maximum and a 20 percent minimum of any dwelling unit type); and 2. to permit 100 percent disturbance of the portion of the property within the Water Resource Protection Area (50 percent maximum disturbance in the Cockeysville Formation Drainage Area WRPA). CCS Farms LLC - Drake Cattermole. Neighborhood Conservation (NC) 21 Zoning, which is proposed be rezoned to (ST) Suburban Transition. CD 3. (App. 2012-0702-A) TP 08-013.10-210
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