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lymanLumbef Company e 300 MORSE AVENUE • MAILING ADDRESS: P. O BOX 40 • EXCELSIOR. MINNESOTA 55331 • TELEPHONE 612-474-5991 THOMAS P. LOWE Prn*dent R. L. OfPAUW Vice President May 8, 1980 TO: THE PLANNING COmiSSION AND COUNCIL RE: BRUCE HEPP SUBDIVISION Lot 9, Shore Hills I have had a chance to review the zoning and platting ordinances of the City of Orono and request that the planning cotimission and council consider the following points in regard to the proposed subdivision of Lot 9. 1. SECTION 39.010 This section refers to piecemeal planning of a subdivision. It is obvious that some thought to planning had been done on the original plat. Why now should the planning commission or council change what a prior council and developer had agreed was good planning? Mr. Hepp is under no hardship nor suffers any impairment in his ownership of the present lot. For the planning commission or council to approve the proposed subdivision would appear to engage in piecemeal zoning which clearly is not the intent of the platting ordinance. 2. SECTION 39.140 PARAGRAPH 3 "Each lot shall adjoin a public street". This is a performance standard required by the village. If this standard cannot be met, the subdivider must ask for a variance. Under Section 32.310 the council may grant a variance "where there are practical difficulties or particular hardships". It is hard to see where Mr. Hepp is suffering a hardship or particular difficulty in subdividing this lot. 3. SECTION 32.340 Before granting a variance the city council shall find under Sub Section E: "that the granting of such variance will not merely serve as a convenience to the applicant but is necessary to alleviate a demonstrable hardship or difficulty". Clearly Mr. Hepp is not entitled to relief from the sub division requirements since he is suffering no hardship and cannot demonstrate a difficulty with the existing lot. L. t.• y !i *.*!' I • i .1t - * '. ♦ »# * ♦• •t I ' *1 ? ’ll