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4T3-, rr-,—icrrr.F' <br />MINUTES OP THE PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING HELD MARCH 18, 1985. PAGE 3 <br />«895 T.M. CROSBY Mr. Crosby explained they wish to acquire additional <br />property because their lot is very small and the <br />added property would be used for a dock and <br />protection. <br />Assistant Zoning Administrator Gaffron asked for <br />Zoning Administrator Mabusth's comments on taking a <br />lot of over 2 acres (in a 2 acre zone) and breaking <br />it down to a smaller lot and making the adjacent lot <br />larger, thus making two substandard lots. <br />Zoning Adminisrator Mabusth explained this is an <br />acceptable procedure as long as no harm is done to <br />the original lot that you are taking land from, and <br />if you are improving a substandard condition. There <br />would be no new lot created or an unbuildable lot in <br />an unsewered area. The septic testing has been done <br />and found to meet all rural standards. Thus if you <br />are assured you have a buildable lot you may <br />rearrange lot lines to improve tne substandard lots. <br />Goetten stated )ier concern that by doing this you <br />would be in a sense granting a variance on the newly <br />created substandard lot. <br />Zoning Administrator Mabusth stated that the fact <br />remains that you arc improving a smaller lot building <br />envelope and still not making the larger lot non- <br />buildable. <br />Assistant Zoning Administrator Gaffron explained that <br />the floodplain area on the Pillsbury lot below 931.5 <br />can't be filled or excavated without Council <br />approval. Further study should be done on this area <br />to tell if filling would be a problem. If a house is <br />proposed to be built in this area, (encroaching on <br />the floodplain), then a review wou Id have to be done. <br />Assistant Zoning Administrator Gaffron stated that by <br />approving this lot line rearrangement you are pushing <br />the building envelope on the Pillsbury lot further <br />south, thus encroaching onto the floodplain. For <br />future building a conditional use permit or variance <br />would be needed. <br />Zoning Administrator Mabusth stated that the DNR <br />would have to approve any fill within the floodplain. <br />Chairman Callahan reviewed the point that since you <br />are taking away the highland on the Pillsbury lot, <br />you are essentially forcing the future house to build <br />in the floodplviin, whereas if the land were left as <br />it is there would be no problem.