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3 <br />To: <br />From: <br />Date: <br />Chair Hawn and Planning Commission Members <br />Mike Gaffron, Senior Planning Coordinator <br />April 12,2000 <br />Subject:#2549, David Lovelace, 220 Big Island - Request for Dock Access <br />Note: This item was tabled by Planning Commission on 1 1 -1 S-99 to allow the Big Island property owners <br />time to review the options and hopefully reach a neighborhood consensus on a dock location. The intent <br />was to have this resolved by mid-April. There is no consensus forthcoming from the neighborhood. The <br />City is obligated at this time to resolve this issue for the applicant. <br />List of Exhibits <br />A - Planning Commission minutes 11-15-99 <br />B - Staff memo and selected attachments 11-9-99 <br />C - Letter from James Ogland 11-12-99 <br />D - Staff sketches: D-1 : Platted access locations D-2: schematics of access points C & D <br />E - Original plats of Morse Island Park and Morse Island Park Second Addition <br />F - Section 1 0.3 1 Subd. 5 - RS District: Private Improvements in Public Right-of-Way <br />G - Photos <br />H - Draft Comprehensive Plan Language for Big Island <br />Staff Position on Access for Inland Lots: <br />The plat of Morse Island Park in 1887 created many lakeshore lots, a lerser number of inland lots, <br />and an interior right-of-way system with a number of alleys, roads and public areas extending from <br />it to the lakeshore. The inland lots undoubtedly were expected to gain access to/from the lake via the <br />platted right-of-ways. The plat of Morse Island Park placed the two widest and most expansive <br />public rights-of-way at relatively low points in the topography where access by foot or horse-drawn <br />vehicles was most feasible in summer and winter. <br />All of these right-of-ways were “donate(d) and dedicate(d) to the public use forever” on the original <br />1887 plat. Since most of the lots abut the shoreline, use of the interior roadway system would <br />presumably have been primarily by the ow ners of interior lots, and by owmers of lakeshore lots with <br />shoreline slopes that prohibit direct lake access. The members of the general public who did not <br />own property on the island would presumably have only minimal occasion to use the right-of-ways; <br />nevertheless, they were dedicated for public use rather than for private use. <br />The largest of these public access points, “Bay Place”, originally had approximately 200' of shoreline <br />plus a lagoon. At some point prior to the I970's, the northerly 150' of “Bay Place” was apparently <br />vacated and the vacated portions attributed to Lots 2 1 -22-23. We have yet to unearth records of this <br />vacation, if they exist.