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15(j MEMORANDUM V -1 -87 VARIANCE REQUEST BY DAVID RIPPERTON ON NORTH SIDE OF WHITFIELD ROAD MAY 22, 1987 PAGE 2 tion provides for land adjacent to urban and /or transition areas which is rural In character and should remain rural, contain very low density residential uses, and not require urban services during the present Land Use Plan period. APPL I CAT I QN 0E_ THE ,BAR II AN„QE_PQWER A variance may be allowed only by the Board of Adjustment in cases involving practical difficulties or unnecessary hard- ships, when substantial evidence in the official record of the application supports all the following findings. a) That the alleged hardships or practical difficul- ties are unique and singular as regards to the property of the person requesting the variance and are not those suffered in common with other pro- perty similarly located. Staff Comment: FINDING Yes No The alleged hardship and practical difficulty is suffered in common with other properties of this size similarly located in the Rural Buffer area. b) That the alleged hardships and practical difficul- ties, which will result from failure to grant the variance, extend to the Inability to use the land In question for any use in conformity with the provision of- this ordinance and include substan- tially more than mere Inconvenience and inability to attain a higher financial return. The alleged hardships cannot have resulted from the action or inaction of the applicant. FINDING Yes No Staff Comment: The alleged hardships and difficulties, which will result from failure to grant the variance do not extend to the inability to use the land since there is an existing single family house on the property. The alleged hardship did not result from the action or inaction of the applicant. c) That the variance, if allowed, will not substan-