PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Conduct the public hearing to consider a variance to permit a detached garage/summer kitchen to exceed the height limitation for an accessory structure at 337 N. Sleight Street - DEV-0101-2025
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DEPARTMENT: Transportation, Engineering and Development
SUBMITTED BY: Anna Franco, AICP, Community Planner
ENTITLEMENTS REQUESTED:
A variance to Naperville Municipal Code Section 6-2-10:3 (Accessory Buildings, Structures, and Uses of Land: Height Limitations) to permit a detached garage/summer kitchen to exceed the eighteen (18) foot height limitation for accessory structures.
BOARD/COMMISSION REVIEW:
Official notice for the public hearing for DEV-0101-2025 was published in the Naperville Sun on Sunday, November 2, 2025.
BACKGROUND:
The subject property is located at the southwest corner of Sleight Street and 4th Avenue, just south of the BNSF commuter railroad tracks, and is zoned R2 (Single-Family and Low Density Multiple-Family Residence District). The property is approximately 8,092 square feet and is improved with a two-story single-family residence and detached, historic summer kitchen structure.
The existing summer kitchen is approximately 319 square feet and sixteen (16) feet in height and is located to the west of the primary residence on the property. The structure has a setback of 3.53 feet from the west property line and therefore does not comply with the minimum detached accessory structure setback of five feet as outlined in Municipal Code Section 6-2-10:1 (Accessory Buildings, Structures and Use of Land: Location). There is no garage on the property, so vehicles currently park on the small driveway off 4th Avenue, which is slightly less in length than a standard parking space. Since no garage currently exists, the property does not comply with the City requirement for the provision of one enclosed parking space per Municipal Code Section 6-9-2:4.2.1 (Off-Street Parking Facilitie...
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