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DARROW: No. <br />DOMINGO: Because they’re not supposed to have any kitchens or whatever, similar conditions. <br />DARROW: That’s correct. <br />DOMINGO: So how many cottages can one build on a 20,000 square foot lot, or for that matter <br />even a 10,000 square foot lot? <br />DARROW: The Zoning Code allows for one guest house, they call it a guest house, which is <br />basically a structure that’s 500 square feet or less on a property that’s zoned RS-7.5. So they <br />could have a small guest house, which does not include a kitchen. It’s just like a <br />bedroom/bathroom kind of facility that’s 500 square feet. These particular cottages weren’t <br />applied for, except for the more recent one, Cottage 44. The others were existing since the <br />thirties. <br />DOMINGO: Now if them or others in that situation decide to build additional cottages, with this <br />particular application that we’re looking at, they have two cottages on them, how many cottages <br />are they allowed to build? This is a 20,000 square foot lot and a 14,000 square foot lot. You <br />mentioned that one size that is a 7., 7,500 square foot lot. So, in essence, when you translate <br />that, how much additional dwellings can you put on a 20,000 square foot lot? <br />DARROW: I’m sorry, I might have not been clear. As long as the property is RS-7.5 you’re <br />allowed. If it’s RS-20 you can put one guest house. <br />DOMINGO: Only one? <br />DARROW: Only one. So that’s all the Code allows. <br />DOMINGO: Then how is it that they have two cottages on the property? I don’t know, I might <br />not be understanding things. <br />LEITHEAD TODD: Commissioner Domingo, it’s because those homes were built in the 1930s <br />and there was no Zoning Code back then that prohibited the construction. Throughout Volcano, <br />actually there are many homes that have these little cottages on the side. My family had a home <br />on Wright Road that we purchased in 1935, which gives you an idea of how old these <br />subdivisions are. So I’m not surprised that -. Most of the homes that I was familiar with in the <br />Old Volcano Village had been constructed in the 1930s; and that’s when all these subdivisions <br />were. And then subsequently this was given Urban designation because of the small size of the <br />lots up in Volcano. <br />DOMINGO: So what you’re saying is that these are existing -? <br />LEITHEAD TODD: Existing, have been there since the thirties, so they’re all grandfathered in, <br />with the exception I think of, what is it No. 44? <br />9 <br /> EXHIBIT D <br /> <br />