License and Variance Board Meeting - A. MAX BACON CITY HALL - COUNCIL CHAMBERS — Minutes
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September 24, 2025 10:00 AM City of Smyrna License and Variance Board Meeting 2800 King Street SE Council Chambers Page 6 of 8 Ward 4 Councilmember - Charles 'Corkey' Welch No additional information was provided for this request. The applicant agrees to the standard stipulation read into record. A public hearing was called, and no one came forward in favor of or in opposition to this item. Board Member Eric Randall made a motion to approve item V25-089; seconded by Board Member Andrea Worthy. The motion to approve carried with the following vote: Aye: 3 – Chairperson Garland, Board Member Worthy, Board Member Randall Nay: 0 – None Recuse: 0 – None E. V25-090 Public Hearing - Variance Request - V25-090 - Reduce the northern side setback from 12 feet to 8 feet - Land Lot 556 - 3357 Pretty Branch Drive - Nick Vinson Ward 6 Mayor Pro Tem / Councilmember - Tim Gould Caitlin Crowe, Land Services Development Coordinator, provided the following background for V25-090 and V25-091: The subject parcel is a 0.50-acre lot located on the east side of Pretty Branch Drive. The subject parcel and all adjacent parcels are zoned R-20 and are occupied by detached single-family homes. The applicant is proposing to demolish the existing single-family home and build a new 1 ½ -story 3,745 square foot home; when completed, the home will have 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms on the lower floor and a home theater on the second floor. The home will be accessed from the existing curb cut off Pretty Branch Drive, which will be greatly reconfigured as part of the project. The existing one-story home is 1,326 square feet, which is below the minimum house size of the R-20 zoning district of 2,100 square feet. With the new construction, the home will be 3,745 square feet, bringing the property into compliance with the R-20 zoning district floor area requirement. The existing home, originally built in 1955, is currently encroaching into the 12-foot northern side setback by 8.3 feet. The applicant is proposing to keep as much of the existing footprint of the home to reduce land disturbance, so any expansion in line with the existing home would require a setback variance. However, to eliminate fire retardant requirements and to minimize the variance request, the applicant is shifting the home to the south by 4.3 feet so the total encroachment for the new home will be 4 feet. Since the encroachment previously existed on the property, the hardship is not self-created. To make way for the new home and the proposed side entry garage, the applicant will completely reconfigure the existing drive to run the length of the southern property line rather than slant towards the middle of the lot as it exists today. In order to create the necessary turning radius to access the side-entry garage, the applicant is proposing a 3- foot reduction to the driveway setback. The applicant has minimized the variance request as much as possible by reducing the driveway to a one car driveway until it enters the two-car garage at the home.