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Minnesota Rules, Chapter 6120. Page 2 of 14 <br /> height. <br /> (3) A guest cottage must be located or designed <br /> to reduce its visibility as viewed from public waters and <br /> adjacent shorelands by vegetation, topography, increased <br /> setbacks, color, or other means acceptable to the local unit of <br /> government, assuming summer leaf-on conditions. <br /> D. Lots of record in the office of the county <br /> recorder on the date of enactment of local shoreland controls <br /> that do not meet the requirements of items A to E and subparts <br /> 2a and 2b may be allowed as building sites without variances <br /> from lot size requirements provided the use is permitted in the <br /> zoning district, the lot has been in separate ownership from <br /> abutting lands at all times since it became substandard, was <br /> created compliant with official controls in effect at the time, <br /> and sewage treatment and setback requirements of the shoreland <br /> controls are met. Necessary variances from setback requirements <br /> must be obtained before any use, sewage treatment system, or <br /> building permits are issued for the lots. In evaluating all the <br /> variances, boards of adjustment shall consider sewage treatment <br /> and water supply capabilities or constraints of the lots and <br /> shall deny the variances if adequate facilities cannot be <br /> provided. 'If, in a group of two or more contiguous lots under <br /> the same ownership, any individual lot does not meet the <br /> requirements of items A to E and subparts 2a and 2b, the lot <br /> must not be considered as a separate parcel of land for the <br /> purposes of sale or development. The lot must be combined with <br /> the one or more contiguous lots so they equal one or more <br /> parcels of land, each meeting the requirements of items A to E <br /> and subparts 2a and 2b as much as possible. Local shoreland <br /> controls may set a minimum size for nonconforming lots or impose <br /> their restrictions on their development. 4 <br /> E. If allowed by local governments, lots intended as <br /> controlled accesses to public waters or recreation areas for use <br /> by owners of nonriparian lots within subdivisions must meet or <br /> exceed the following standards: <br /> (1) They must meet the width and size for <br /> residential lots, and be suitable for the intended uses of <br /> controlled access lots. If docking, mooring, or over-water <br /> storage of watercraft is to be allowed at a controlled access <br /> lot, then the width of the lot must be increased by the percent <br /> of the requirements for riparian residential lots for each <br /> watercraft provided for by covenant beyond six, consistent with <br /> the following table: <br /> Controlled Access Lot Frontage Requirements <br /> Ratio of lake size Required increase <br /> to shore length in frontage <br /> (acres/mile) (percent) <br /> Less than 100 25 <br /> 100-200 20 <br /> 201-300 15 <br /> 301-400 10 <br /> Greater than 400 5 <br /> (2) They must be jointly owned by all purchasers <br /> of lots in the subdivision or by all purchasers of nonriparian <br /> http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/getpub.php?pubtype=RULE CHAP&year=current... 4/27/2007 <br />