TO: Zoning Commission
THRU: Craig Harmon - Senior Planner
FROM: Heather Eckhardt, CZO - Planner II
DATE: September 15, 2025
RE:
Title
A25-39: A variance request to address maximum front yard setback in the Hospital Area Overlay at 7 parcels along Melrose Road and Beaumont Road (0416979256000, 0416978223000, 0416977219000, 0416976116000, 0416974189000, 0416979336000, and 0416977441000), owned by Cumberland County Hospital System, Inc. (Tabled from September 9)
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COUNCIL DISTRICT(S):
Council District(s)
5 - Lynne Greene
b
Relationship To Strategic Plan:
Strategic Operating Plan FY 2022
Goals 2027
Goal 2: Responsive City Government Supporting a Diverse and Viable Economy
* Objective 2.2 - Invest in community places to ensure revitalization and increase quality of life
Goal 4: Desirable Place to Live, Work and Recreate
* Objective 4.5 - Ensure a place for people to live in great neighborhoods
Executive Summary:
The applicant requests a variance to increase the front yard setback in the Hospital Area Overlay (HAO), which requires buildings to be within 10 feet of the street. The proposed building would be set back 130 feet from Melrose Road to allow for patient drop-off and handicap parking.
30.2.C.14 Variance:
The purpose of a variance is to allow certain deviations from the dimensional standards of this Ordinance (such as height, yard setback, lot coverage, or similar numeric standards) when the landowner demonstrates that, owing to special circumstances or conditions beyond the landowner's control (such as exceptional topographical conditions, narrowness, shallowness, or the shape of a specific parcel of land), the literal application of the standards would result in undue and unique hardship to the landowner and the deviation would not be contrary to the public interest.
Variances are to be sparingly exercised and only in rare instances or under exceptional circumstances to relieve undue and unique hardships to the landowner. No change ...
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