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'r <br />m^.O: <br />•Vv <br />.» <br />Sfc?i!:;.- <br />r: ■ <br />^'.<'.v'. .*. -“s <br />fij- <br />' • ■' ^* k:^ !/-v. ^v <br />5-'i. .' '■ • <br />>•/... ■ ■• <br />W0m <br />te <br />*• <br />> <br />I <br />Zoning riles «941, =945 & 1951 <br />August 14, 1935 <br />Page 3 of 4 <br />Review of Application <br />In the Spring of 1994 , after receiving cor-.piaints concerning the <br />intense use ar.c reocrted ooeratior. of a corr.rr.ercia i narina within e <br />Karrows Lagoon area*. Council directed staff to inspect the subject area. <br />Staff advised Council that there was indeed a potential threat to the <br />public safety and welfare in the unregulated use of these 20 foot wide <br />riparian tracts (see Exhibit F) given the limited area of the lagbon. me <br />original Registered Land Survey division (195*«) created these tracts to <br />provide protected dock use area for the homestead lots wihin that same <br />Registered Land Survey. The covenants dealing with the use of these tracts <br />have long expired (1955) and four tracts are currently in the ownership of <br />non-adjacent land owners. <br />The City was introduced to this multiple dock area in 1979 in the <br />process of reviewing a lot area variance for a Robert V,atson. It was an <br />application involving the common ownership of two tracts of lakcshore <br />oroperties. One was developed, tlie other undeveloped. A condition o.. <br />approving that variance apiplication was that both homestead lots on the <br />mainlake retain a lacoon tract for dock purposes. As a result, the curren <br />owners of Tracts M £ N and K S L are the only legal or conforming users or <br />the riparian tracts. The original covenants established^ standards for the <br />use of these limited properties but they are no longer in effect and many <br />would require variances to our present code. <br />The Marina Committee had been attempting to deal with the six separate <br />owners, two adjacent residential owners and four non-adjacent owners, u <br />found It impossible to come to any agrccm.ent because of the diverse owner­ <br />ship pattern and the illegal or unresolved status of Tracts S £ <br />f I. and E. The chairman of the Marina Committee advised each of <br />owners of the need tc gain legal status or recognition of their use ot tne <br />the Counci x before the com.m«itteo could work with allf -riparian tracts ___ <br />six owners on a safe agreed upon use o.*” the iaccon area. <br />Planning Commission was asked to consider the following issues: <br />1. Can these tracts be put to another reasonable use under the <br />present y.cnin.g? <br />2. Were the hardships created by the owners or due to circumstances <br />unique to tb.is propcityV <br />3. Is the current use of eh.e pioporty cut of character with the <br />surrounding lagoon neighborhood? <br />4. Is there a safe level of use fo: a 2C wide riparian lot? <br />5. Should th»- fact that these ncn-confor.ming uses existed before <br />formal toning have asry bearing on the toview - the City knew in i. <br />that these tracts were not owned an.d used by adjacent land owners.