Sean C. Morgan
The Sweet Home Planning Commission approved two conditional use permits and one variance during following public hearings during its regular meeting on Nov. 30.
One conditional use allows the construction of a secondary use on a property with no primary use to allow the construction of a pole barn on a vacant lot, 5701 Airport Road.
The 24-by-40-foot pole barn will be used to store personal belongings, a truck and camper, a utility trailer and a van. The property is 10,533 square feet.
The property, zoned high-density residential and owned by John Camelia, is to the rear of his home, 4937 Larch Court.
In the second request for a conditional use permit, John Cvitanich requested a permit to change the use of 2242 Main St. from commercial to residential.
The property, formerly the location of Dr. Ron Hartmann’s practice, is currently vacant, Cvitanich said. There has been only minimal interest in it commercially. It has drawn considerably more interest as a residence.
“All previous tenants have used it as a residence, concurrent with their business ventures,” Cvitanich said. “It stands as still another empty building in Sweet Home, and one which I still have a monthly loan payment to make.”
The property is .27 acres and developed with a 1,325 square foot structure and parking lot. The surrounding property is zoned commercial.
The variance allows a porch roof to encroach into the 15-foot street side setback requirement for the Sweet Home United Methodist Church, 845 Sixth Ave.
The property is 1.25 acres and zones low-density residential.
In the early 1950s, the church added a porch roof over the fellowship room door to Sixth Avenue, said church Trustee Joe Graybill, who also is the city’s senior engineering technician. The roof was a single flat roof that didn’t match the original building design or material.
Over the years, that roof started sagging and deteriorating, becoming a hazard to people entering and exiting the door, Graybill said. The church took it down about two years ago.
“The intent has been to rebuild the porch roof with a similar look and feel to the porch covering on the main sanctuary doors nearby,” Graybill said. The church also is building a similar roof over the reardining room doorway facing the parking lot off of Ironwood Street.”
The new roof, like the original, will encroach into the required 15-foot setback, he said.