Laserfiche WebLink
L.. <br />Application Received: <br />Application Complete: <br />60 Day Deadline: <br />Extension: <br />3/19/03 <br />4/1/03 <br />5/30/03 <br />7/29/03 <br />TO:Chair Smith and Orono Planning Commission Members <br />Ron Moorse. City Administrator <br />FROM: <br />DATE: <br />Jennifer Chaput, City Planner <br />May 14,2003 <br />SUBJECT: ^03-2885 Gcrda and Ed Toth <br />1280/1290 Spruce Place <br />Variances — Public Hearing <br />Zoning District: <br />Lot Area: <br />LR-lBOne Family Lakeshore Residential District (1 acre) <br />0.43 acres (18,553 s.f.) <br />Application Sunmary: <br />The applicant requests the follouing variances to permit construction of a new residence on the <br />property: <br />1. lot area of 18,553 s.f. (0.43 acres) where 43,560 s.f. (1 acre) is required: <br />2. a lot width of 99’ at the OHWL and the 75’ setback from the OIIWL where 140’ is <br />required; <br />111 s.f. (1.47%) hardcover within the 0 to 75’ lakeshore tback zone where none is <br />permitted, <br />3,303 s.f. (30*/o) hardcover within the 75’ to 250 ’ lakeshore setback zone where 2,753 <br />s.f. (25%) is permitted; and <br />6. grading and filling within 75’ of the OHWL of l.akc Minnetonka where no grading nor <br />filling is permitted. <br />3. <br />4. <br />The Planning Commission heard this application at their Monday. April 21.2003 meeting. 3\'ith a <br />vote of 7 to 0, the Planning Commission tabled the application to allow the applicants to reduce <br />hardcover in the 75’ to 250 ’ setback zone to “between 25®/i and 30*/*” and to no more than 2,783 s.f. <br />(15*/o) of structural coverage on the combined lots by redesigning the proposed home. The requested <br />variances for lot area, lot w idth, hardcover within the 0 to75* setback zone and grading and filling <br />within 75’ of the OHWL appeared to be acceptable to the Planning Commission at the last meeting. <br />The proposed house has been redesigned to reduce the hardcover in the 75’ to 250 ’ hardcover zone <br />from the previously proposed 4,483 s.f (38.36%) to 3.303 s.f. (30%). The structural coverage has <br />also been reduced from 3,132 s.f (16.88*/o) to 2,505 s.f (13.5%), meeting the maximum permitted <br />on the lot <br />M0J-2US Ctrdaand Ed Toth <br />S/14/2003 <br />fof^lofS