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pro osed �}il S�c.l Ft 2,3.4.1 A quorum of the Board, necessary to conduct any business of the Board shall consist of vom _ 2.3.5 sets out in some detail the rules which the Board of Adjustment must follow in deciding four members. upon applications for variances. These rules vote of four of the are stringent, but follow case law. Variances 1/21./80 2.3.4,2 The c oncurring are not supposed to be easy to grant; they members of the Board shall be necessary should be reserved for the highly unusual in order: case. order requirement, a) to reverse any ! decision or determination of any adminis- trative official charged with enforcement of this ordinance, or b) to decide in favor of the applicant any matter upon which it is required to pass by this ordinance, or c) to effect any variation in this ordinance. 5/6/79 2.3,5 Application of the Variance Power 1. 3.3' Variances $/12/73 2.34'5.7,- A variance may be allowed only by tl�e Anard of Adjustment in cases involving practical difficulties or unnecessary hardships ofhe lot on by is Board, is to make decisions regarding unusual size, shape, topography le granting of "Variances" from the unusual soils conditions, when substantial Lteral terns- of the ordinance in hardship evidence in the official record of the applica- ases where such variances will not sub_. tion supports all the following findings. ;rt the meaning and spirit of the ordi- A. That the alleged hardships or practical rote. The Board Of .Adjustment shah not difficulties are unique and- singular as :ant a variance from the literal terms of regards the property of the person re- 3is ordinance except in cases where each questing the variance and are not those id all of the following shall be deter-- suffered in common with ether property similarly located. zned: