Memo to C.C. re auto lot area variances

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s - TO: Orono Council FROM: Michael P. Gaffron, Assistant Zoning Administrator � DATE: May 21, 1986 SUBJ: Big Island - Automatic Lot Area Variances - Resolutions Record Lot No. 11, V. William Melin Record Lot No. 28, J.W. Vanderhoof Record Lot No. 41, Scriver/Burch Record Lot No. 36 , Stephen O'Gara Record Lot No. 40, D.W. Pratt Record Lot No. 14, D.J. Kilbane List of Exhibits A - Typical Documentation Packet Re-sent to 14 Non- Respondents in Spring 1986 B - Copies of Automatic Lot Area Variance Resolutions for 6 Record Lots C - Listing of Status of Big Island Record Lots as of Spring 1986 Background Please recall that in 1983 when the Council adopted Ordinance No. 246 (creating the "RS" Seasonal Recreational Zoning District ) , �-J Big Island property owners were given the opportunity to be automatically granted lot area variances , which --- ---- --------- gave them the right to build upon their substandard sized lots without further Council action. Identified in Section 10.31, Subdivision 6(F) were 55 Record Lots ranging in area from 0.18 to 4.3 acres, which wexe designated as SUBSTANDARD BUILDABLE RECORD LOTS. In the summer of 1983 , City Planner Alan Olson mailed notifications of the Record Lot designations to the appropriate property owners. About 2/3 of them returned the proper paperwark and documentation immediately and were subsequently granted the Automatic Lot Area Variances. Midway through this process, Olson resigned his position with Orono and consequently left much of the follow-up work undone. Staff has only recently been able to free up time to review the Big Island matters outstanding, and subsequently have taken the following steps : l. Reviewed a 11 Big Is land Record Lot f i les to determine which substandard buildable lot owners did not respond to the initial notification. 2. Based on statements by at least two of those property owners that they either "never got the information" or "didn't know they were supposed to return something", staff revised and updated paperwork, mailed it out again to the non-respondents, and stipulated a deadline of April 30, 1986 in which to return the documentation required without having to file a formal variance application.