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1 <br />i <br />Zoning File #1680 <br />September 13, 1991 <br />Page 2 <br />2. <br />3. <br />4. <br />5. <br />6. <br />Mr» Vaughan has purchased the triangular-shaped property at <br />205 Tonka Avenue from Florian Sterner contingent on being <br />able to obtain a building permit. A copy of the Purchase <br />Agreement is on file, signed by both parties. <br />Mr. Vaughan is Mrs. Ziesmer's father, and the Vaughan's and <br />the Ziesmer's have agreed to a lot line rearrangement which <br />leaves Ziesmer's with 2.00 dry buildable acres, and <br />increases 205 Tonka to almost 2 acres. The new <br />certainly odd shapedr but makes use of the high point of the <br />property as a potential building site. <br />The Ziesmer's are still on a holding tank/temporary trench <br />drainfield system, and all parties involved are strongly in <br />favor of the Stubbs Bay Sewer Project. <br />The proposed new building site is west of the existing <br />residence at 225 Tonka. Staff's interpretation of the <br />setback requirements is that this easterly lot line would be <br />considered a side lot line for setback purposes, requiring a <br />30' setback. The new house is proposed 30' from the east <br />line and 38' from the west line (see Exhibit H). <br />As a result of the proposed lot line rearrangement, the <br />original drainfield sites delineated for the Ziesmer <br />residence will end up underneath the proposed new house. <br />Applicants were advised that septic testing would be needed <br />to show that, in the absence of a sewer project, both lots <br />have adequate drainfield sites for primary and future <br />systems. <br />Testing was submitted on September 10, and there are two <br />significant problems with the drainfield sites. The primary <br />and alternate proposed sites for the Ziesmer residence are <br />designed for a 3 bedroom home. The original septic approval <br />for Ziesmer's residence in 1988 required that the drainfield <br />design be expanded from 4 bedrooms to 5 bedrooms given the 5 <br />bedroom house plan submitted. (Remember that this system <br />has never been constructed due tc Ziesmer's hope that sewer <br />comes soon). To date only 2 or 3 bedrooms have been <br />finished, the basement is unfinished. <br />The second issue is that the proposed primary and future <br />drainfield sites at a 3 bedroom design extend to within 2' <br />of the proposed new let line. In order to meet the <br />necessary 20' setback, the lot line would have to be moved <br />leaving only a 20' setback to the proposed new house <br />The other or»tion is for staff to grant a setbacx variance <br />for the mound system. Normally such a variance is only <br />granted in a pre-existing problem situation where there are <br />no other options. With a design that doesn't account for 2 <br />i <br />i <br />1 ftmiiiii m ......... < ~na .-rtriia