COVERED PORCH ENCROACHMENTS AND COVERED PORCH ENCROACHMENT DESIGN GUIDELINES

A. CITY REVIEW PROCEDURE

1. Applicant reviews proposal with City Planner before plans are finalized.

2. Applicant submits application and submission documents to the City.

3. Community Development Director or their designee reviews application and review the findings to determine compliance with City regulations

4. The Community Development Director or their designee provides a written review of application to the City Building Official and the applicant.

5. If the Community Development Director or their designee has approved the porch addition the applicant may submit an application for a building permit.

B. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Written Statement

1. The applicant shall provide a written description of the proposed covered front porch encroachment including; the general style and form of the porch, roof materials, exterior wall materials, floors and interior materials, ceiling materials, column materials, spindle and railing materials, and base materials, to provide an accurate description of the proposed covered front porch encroachment and demonstrate compliance with the City's covered porch encroachment design guidelines.

Other Considerations

1. Photographs showing the location of the proposed covered porch encroachment.

2. Elevations or renderings of the proposed covered porch encroachment.

3. Other plans, as appropriate to request.

Survey

The applicant shall provide the City with a survey showing the property lines, existing setbacks and proposed setbacks so that City staff may determine if the proposed covered porch encroachment is compliant with City Covered Front Porch Encroachment Design Guidelines and Zoning Code Regulations. Surveys shall include the following:

1. The date, north point, map scale, name and address of the applicant, owner, operator, surveyor, engineer and designer, including their license numbers and seals;

2. A correct boundary survey and legal description of the subject property made and certified to by a registered Land Surveyor indicating total acreage of site;

3. Depiction of all watercourses, lakes, marshes, wooded areas, rock outcrops, power transportation poles and lines, gas lines, single trees with a diameter of eight (8) inches or more as measured three (3) feet above the base of the trunk, and any other significant existing features;

4. Delineation of topography of subject property with contour intervals of not more than two (2) feet and supplemental of one (1) foot in extremely flat areas, the data for which shall be derived from the fifth general adjustment of 1929;

5. The location, right-of-way width, dimensions and names of existing or dedicated streets or other public lands, permanent buildings and structures, easements, section and corporate lines within the subject property and within a distance of one hundred (100) feet from the property boundaries;

6. Descriptions, reference ties and elevations of all benchmarks;

7. Location of all monuments existing at the time of the survey, and those which the surveyor shall have located at the corners of the subject property;

8. Reference to and relations of municipal, township, county or section lines to lines of the subject property by distances, angles, radii, internal angles, points and curvatures, tangent bearings and lengths of all arcs; and

9. Boundary lines of adjoining property within one hundred (100) feet, identifying owners.

Site Plan

Sufficient detail to clearly show the conditions of the property, the location of the proposed porch, and the area surrounding the proposed porch. This may be shown on the survey or included as a separate document. Plans should be drawn to scale (engineer's or architect's scale) not less than ¼ inch to one foot; and the scale shall be listed on the plans. Please also include the following:

1. Principal building location(s), dimensions and setbacks.

2. Accessory building location(s), dimensions and setbacks.

3. Calculation of total building coverage.

4. Calculation or impervious/hard surface coverage.

5. Driveway and sidewalk location.

6. Fences and retaining walls.

7. Shoreland boundaries, if applicable (including official OHW elevation).

8. Wetland boundaries, if applicable.

Drainage Plan

1. Existing and generalized proposed drainage facilities

2. Potential ponding areas

Structural Plans

1. Sketches or illustrations indicating the architectural treatment of the proposed covered porch encroachment.