1 miramar beach resort and bungalows project 2 - Santa Barbara ...

1 questions on FAR's?
2 Any questions that we need to determine on
3 setbacks?
4 MR. PHILLIPS: I have a question, an FAR
5 question, on Lot 11. As to methodolgy, is it that an
6 easement of any kind, a landscape easement, for
7 instance -- assume I had a landscape easement at my
8 home. My surrounding neighbors granted me the easement,
9 and I could keep it landscaped, and I want to build an
10 addition. Can I use that easement property for an FAR
11 calculation? Because I think that's what's happening
12 here.
13 MS. GOTTSDANKER: I don't think, I mean,
14 having sat on MBAR for as many years as I did. And you
15 know, county counsel may have something to say, but as I
16 recall, we never -- we would either deal with gross
17 square footage of the lot and net square footage of a
18 lot when we calculated the FAR calculations.
19 And the only difference that there was
20 between net and gross, as I remember how we operated
21 back then, was that because of the way our roads --
22 because in many cases our property lines go to the
23 center of our roads, that's what distinguishes the
24 difference between gross and net in most cases as far as
25 residential development is concerned.
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