Property Address: 5811 Young Street
A minor variance application has been submitted to request relief from the zoning regulations for an attached garage to the main dwelling that projects into the exterior side yard and projects closer than 4 metres beyond the main dwelling to the front lot line.
The subject lands are irregular shaped and recognized as a lawfully lot of record zoned Agricultural (A) with an existing single detached dwelling. Section 3.5 of the Townships By-law 2017-70, as amended, shall not apply regulations to prevent the use of an existing lot, building or structure, especially if the lot or building and structure was lawfully used for such purpose prior to the effective date of the By-law. Furthermore, the By-law shall not prevent the enlargement, repair or renovation of a building or structure if it does not further increase the extent of non-compliance. In this circumstance, the lot has constraints (e.g., curved corner lot, proximity to natural features, existing driveway, septic bed) that prevents the proposed new garage to be located on the site to comply with the By-law regulations for private garages.
From a technical perspective and per the definitions of the By-law, lot frontage is measured using a straight line (chord) which adjoins the two points where the side lot lines intersect with the front lot line. The lot frontage is 224 metres along Young Street. The front lot line is identified as the shortest line that divides the lot from the public street being the east lot line facing Dobrindt Road. The exterior side yard is identified from Young Street.
Therefore, the requested relief is from Section 3.12.7 (f) (iii) where an attached private garage may project up to a maximum of 4 metres closer to the front lot line than the main front wall of the dwelling on the same lot whereas the proposed garage is projecting 16 metres closer to the front lot line. Additionally, the requested relief is from Section 5.3, Table 12 where the minimum exterior side yard is 15 metres and the proposed garage is positioned entirely within the exterior side yard and projects 3.65 metres further to align with the curvature of Young Street. However, the proposed garage addition is not projecting beyond the front face of the main dwelling which has an existing projection of 6.17 metres.