EXHIBIT 14-B
DRAFT
FINDINGS OF APPROVAL
CONSIDER REQUEST FOR VARIANCE FROM SEPARATE SUPPLY LINES REQUIREMENT AT A NEW SFD AT
26425 LAURELES GRADE, CARMEL VALLEY, APN: 416-051-005 APPLICANT: JAMES RYAN
MCNICKLE
1. FINDING: James
Ryan McNickle has requested Board approval of a variance from the requirement
to have separate supply lines in the meter box for a new SFD at 26425 Laureles
Grade, Carmel Valley.
EVIDENCE: Application for Variance attached as Exhibit 14-A.
2. FINDING: The water pressure in the Cal-Am system
at the connection point is not sufficient to operate the fire suppression
system.
EVIDENCE: Application for Variance attached as Exhibit 14-A.
3. FINDING: A water holding tank and a pressure
tank is required to create enough pressure to operate the fire suppression
system.
EVIDENCE: Application
for Variance attached as Exhibit 14-A.
4. FINDING: District Rule 90 allows the Board to
consider variances “…from any provision
of the standards incorporated into these Rules and Regulations whenever it
finds: (a) that Special Circumstances exist in a particular case, and (b) that
practical difficulties or Undue Hardship would result from the strict
interpretation and enforcement of any such standard, and (c) that the granting
of such a variance would not tend to defeat the purposes of these Rules and
Regulations. The Board may place conditions upon such variances.”
EVIDENCE: Rule 90 attached on file at the District office.
5. FINDING: Practical
difficulties exist at the site in the form of low water pressure in the Cal-Am
system. Mr. Nickle has no ability to affect the pressure in the system.
EVIDENCE: Application
for Variance attached as Exhibit 14-A.
6. FINDING: In order to meet the requirement for
dual supply lines he would have to construct two holding and pressure tanks
which may be considered an Undue Hardship.
EVIDENCE: Application
for Variance attached as Exhibit 14-A.
7. FINDING: Approval
of a single supply line from the meter to two separate
supply lines as they exit the pressure tank to supply Domestic and fire
suppression would not defeat the purposes of these Rules and Regulations.
EVIDENCE: The
above stated facts.
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