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EXHIBIT * 2 SIXTEEN NEW PROPERTIES ON CRYSTAL BAY -- A NEGATIVE PRECEDENT??. " J. Mabusth, in a memo to the Council on October 25, 1984, reviewed the properties along Crystal Bay and came to the incredible finding that there were 16 commonly owned pairs of lots that could seek division, resulting in 16 new residences on Crystal Bay, if the owner of a similar pair of lots at 1620 Shadywood were granted the variance needed to build on one of the lots. I walked a mile north of my house at 1860 Shadywood and found eight pairs of commonly owned lots (using the plat maps with outlined pairs of lots provided by the city); in less distance to the south I found another eight pairs of lots. The pairs of lots ranged from 80'to 150' wide. Most were 100' or 120' since the original platting along much of Crystal Bay was in 50' and 60' lots. Of sixteen commonly owned properties, one already had two houses, one on each lot; three pairs of lots involved one vacant lot next. to a lot which held a house. The three vacant lots were clearly buildable. In TWELVE. CASES the existing houses WERE CENTERED on the two lots in such a way so as to cross the shared lot line leaving no room to add an additional structure. For the Mabusth "negative precedent" to occur, 13 of 16 property owners would have to destroy 13 existing h-1mes worth an average of $100,000 each to acquire 13 new lots with less value than the homes that were destroyed to produce the new lots. This simply does not make sense. But it did influence the Council which in later findings neto-d that. the LR-1C patterns of development in the Navarre area offered the potential for 43 new properties if the application in question were approved. This is of course absurd. The facts fire that. if all of these property owners were encouraged by the city to tear down their existing homes so that they could (acquire a new lot to build on .. , most would refuse resulting; in less than a half dozen new Domes. And where is the evidence that the Crystaal Bay / Navarre areas cannot accomodate a half dozen new homes'?