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w <br />i‘ <br />I <br />Beito & Weiler <br />Page 3 <br />These nearly identical applications were‘made simultaneously. <br />By making the application, each owner has stated that he wants <br />to develop his lot. Both lots are simultaneously "available" <br />for development. This includes doing away with the existing <br />lake access use of these lots. <br />Variance approval very often results in sale of the "approved" <br />lot and development by a person other than the original applicant. <br />In this case, either applicant could purchase the other's lot <br />and combine the applications into one building site which would <br />better conform to our comprehensive plan and zoning regulations. <br />The City is under no obligation to review each application in <br />a vacuum. Both of these applications must be reviewed in light <br />of the other. The effects of a combined application must be <br />considered. <br />The City should be under no duty to approve two very substandard <br />sites when they can be combined into one site, which combined <br />site is closer in area and width to most neighboring properties, <br />and to the intent of the zoning regulations. <br />Denial of the individual applications for two separate sites <br />could be justified as follows: <br />The owners have received substantial benefit in <br />the use of these lots for private lakeshore access <br />purposes. <br />A substantial property value remains in each lot <br />since it can be sold for combination with the other. <br />These individual lots are not unique or special <br />since all nearby building sites (except Heit lot 8) <br />have been created by combination of 2 or more lots <br />similar to these. <br />4) Neither lot has been assessed for sewer as a <br />separate building site. <br />Granting of two adjacent 50' lakeshore lots in a <br />140 ft minimiom district is contrary to the intent <br />of the zoning code. Combination into one 100 ft <br />wide lot would at least meet the minimum DNR <br />shoreland management regulations, the LR-lC *sacre <br />district lot width, and be similar to most nearby <br />lakeshore lot widths. <br />I recommend that the applicants withdraw these two requests and <br />return with one combined application for 1 house on 2 lots. <br />Alternately, I would recommend denial of these two separate <br />applications as outlined above. <br />1 <br />1