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two tenoes. 'One is tor the maintenanoe area or Countryside Golt Course
and the other is a tenee which had been ereoted without a pel"lll1t. That
tence enoroached into the setbaok area 1 to 2 tt. tor a distanoe at 5 to 10
ft. around the pool area. The Board of Adjustment and Appeal granted that
varianoe.
In sUIIIDation. Mr. Godsey stated a ~
proteot his property and he brought out
already been installed approximately 26 ft.
tt. fence would not 'adequately
the taot that a sidewalk has
trom Landmark Drive.
The H~ar1ng Offioer informed Mr. Godsey he would reoeive a ~opy at the
final order.
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STATE 'OF FLORIDA
mqiartm~t of ~btnirtiJtration
Division of Administrative HearinllS
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TALLAHASSEE
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Bob GraMm
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Michael F. Hickey, President
Florida Fence
2551 U1merton Road
Largo, Florida 33541
Re:
Dennis Godsey, Jr. VB. City of Clearwater
Case No. 81-1767
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Dear Mr. Hickey:
Enclosed is a copy of my Recommended Order in the
subject. case.'"
Very truly yours,
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DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS
DENNIS GODSEY, JR., , )
Petitioner, )
VII. ) CASE NO. 81-1767
CITY OF CLEARWA'l'ER, )
Respondent. )
RECOMMENDED ORDER
Pursuant to notice, the Division of Administrative
Hearings, by its duly designated Bearing Officer, K. N. Ayers,
held a public hearing in the above-sty1ed case on 26 October ,
1981 at Clearwater, Florida.
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APPEARANCES
For Petitioner:
Michael F. Hickey, President
Florida Fence
2551 Ulmerton Road
Largo, Florida 33541 ..... C!' ,,, rli'
Thomas A. Bustin, Esquire
City AttorneByox 4748 NOV 16 1961
Post Office
Clearwater, Florida 335liJ'TY J'::-"'O:l~
-For Respondent:
By letter dated July 6, 1981, Dennis Godsey, Jr.,
petitioner, by and through his representative, appeals the
rejection of his application for a:~variance.to' construct a.'six-
foot fence on his property at 3387 Atwood Court, Clearwater,
Florida. As grounds for the appeal it is alleged that similar
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variances have been granted to others and that failure to grant
Petitioner a variance will create a hardship in that his chil-
dren need a safe enclosure from the heavy traffic-on Landmark
Dri vc'.
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At the hearing petitioner testified'on his own behalf
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4S f..t) facing Landmark Drive. Landmark Drive is a main '
thoroughfare with heavy traffic expected to increase aa the
area continues to grow.
2. Landmark Drive is a non-addressed street on which
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a property owner would be permitted to erect a four-foot high
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fence on the prope~ty line. If Petitioner moved the fence 25
feet back from the property line the zoning regulations would
permit the erection of a six-foot high fence. Moving the fence
this far would place 'the fence some SO feet from the right-of-
way of Landmark Drive and would take up so much of Petitioner's
property that his future plans to install a swimming pool would
be thwarted.
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3. In the one and one-half mile stretch of Landmark
Drive in the vicinity of Petitioner's property only two fences
have been erected which required variances and those encroach
only one or two feet into the setback line.
, 4. At the same time Petitioner's request for variance
was denied the board granted a variance to another owner in
the same subdivisidn who had put up a fence without getting a
variance. There, the board found it would constitute a hardship
to require that landowner to remove or relocate his fence since
a swimming pool was also involved.'
5.. Other applications for variances to erect fences
on property fronting on Landmark Drive have been aenied in the
past.
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CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
The Division of Administrative Hearings has juris-
diction over the parties to, and the subject matter of, these
proceedings.
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'~,":;:~""':;."., variances shall not. be granted unless and untJ.l:
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Section 131.016 of the City of Clearwater Building
and Zoning Regulat.ions ~stablishes the criteria for the board
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(1) A written applicaeion for a
variance i. 8ubmitted .tating'~ubstanti~
ally. that certain,ot the following exist:
a. That special conditions and
circumstances exist which are peculiar to :.
the land, structure or building involved and
which are not applicable to other lands,
buildings or structures in the same district.
b. That liberal interpretation of
the provisions of this chapt~r would deprive
the &pplicant of rights commonly enjoyed by
other properties in the same district under
the terms of this chapter.
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circumstances
above, do not
applicant.
That the special conditions and
referred to in subsection a.
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d. That granting the variance
requeseed will not confer on the applicant
any special privilege that is denied by this
chapeer to other lands, structures or dwell-
ings in the same district.
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In this appeal the burden is upon the Petitioner to
,establish by a preponderance of the evidence that one or more
of the above-quoted provisions are applicable to his request
for a variance and that the decision of the Board of Adjustment
and A~peal on Zoning was erroneous. This burden the Peti-
tioner has failed to carry. It is, therefore,
ORDERED that the appeal of Dennis Godsey, Jr.,
for a variance to erect a six-foot high fence three feet
from the property line of his property at 3387 Atwood Court,
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Clearwater, Florida, be denied.
ENTERED this /3"t.. day of November, 1981, in
Tallahassee, Florida.
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