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• the number of variances but may even increase these requests. They were hoping to increase their home from about 2,300 to 4,000 and found the planning and permit process difficult. Rules can be confusing as exemplified by the fact that he could not find out if this ordinance would apply to their lot or not. Ken Olcott12950 Brendel Drive believed the ordinance needed morep unch. Incentives should also be in place. For example, staff should be allowed to give people options such as allowing them to use turf block. He supported helping people minimize the non- countable space. Kaiman Lee, 26799 Magdalena Road, stated that he had bought a 1 and '/2 acre lot with a .7 luf in 1989. He had been waiting to proceed with his plans for a variety of reasons including financial and if the rules were changed now he would be very upset. Furthermore, if the carport was now included, his numbers would be reduced even more. Even if there was a grace period, he would still feel pressured to complete his project quickly. Mr. Lee highly recommended making the rules easier to understand for the public. Tom Larch, 11640 Summitwood Road, questioned the proposed reduction from 4,000 to 3,500 square feet. He did not get a sense that this was a real problem in Town and people were saying that the 4,000 square foot homes were too big. Concerning quarter and half- acre lots, he believed that the Town may just have to treat these as exceptions and deal with them that way. Council agreed that more work needed to be done on the ordinance and the following issues also needed to be looked at: intent of slope density ordinance, 60' road right of way, the counting of decks in the development area and 14' driveways instead of 10'. Dauber suggested forming a subcommittee of two Councilmembers and two Planning Commissioners to work on this ordinance but Casey disagreed stating that in her opinion it was the job of the Planning Commission to review such issues. MOTION SECONDED AND CARRIED: Moved by Casey, seconded by Johnson and passed unanimously to send the proposed ordinance amending Sections 10-1.501(b), 10- 1.502(c) and 10-1.503(c) of the Zoning Code with regard to development area, calculations for fire department turnarounds and driveway width, and with regard to allowable development area and floor area on constrained lots back to the Planning Commission for additional review and recommendation and.a report back to the Council at a future meeting. It was further directed that this Planning Commission Meeting would be noticed to the residents. 11.3 Request for a site development permit for a new residence, Lands of Vidovich, 28080 Laura Court June 15,2000 Regular City Council Meeting 13