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5^ <br />To: <br />From: <br />Date: <br />Subject: <br />Chair Smith and Planning Commission Members <br />Michael P. Gaffron, Senior Planning Coordinator <br />March 11,1998 <br />#2350 - Kevin & Lisa Olsen and James Touve, 4196 North Shore Drive - Class I <br />Subdivision of a Lot Line Rearrangement - Public Hearing <br />Zoning District: LR-IB, Single Family Lakeshore Residential, 1 acre. Sewered <br />Application: Detach Lot 57 from Lots 55 & 56, to allow combination of Lot 57 with Lots 58-61. <br />List of Exhibits: <br />A - Application <br />B - Plat Map <br />C - Property Owners List <br />D - Survey <br />E - Concept Plan for Lots 57-61 <br />F - Sketch with existing/pioposed lot areas <br />G - Hardcover Review <br />H - Applicant Letter of Request/Comments/Deeds <br />I - Memo from Raymond F, Hirte, Hennepin County Property Descriptions Dept. <br />J - Materials Related to Buildability of Lots 57-61: <br />1. March 22, 1994 Letter to Jim Touve <br />2. August 4, 1987 Letter to Jim Touve <br />3. July 13, 1987 Letter to Kevin & Lisa Olsen <br />4. Wetland Delineation Report Excerpts <br />5. Tax valuation comparisons 1974-1997 <br />6. Sewer Assessment Documentation <br />K - Zoning Code Sections 10.03 Subd. 6 and 10.55 Subd. 15A <br />Summary of Request <br />Lot 55 was purchased by the Stenbergs (ancestors of the applicants) in 1923. Lot" :6 thru 61 were <br />purchased by the Stenbergs in 1946. A residence has existed on the site for many years, mostly on <br />Lot 55 but partly on Lot 56. At some past date, probably prior to the 1960's, Lots 55-56-57 were <br />legally combined. Nobody is sure how, v hen, or why the combination occurred, but the City has <br />relied for decades on the 55-56-57 combination as defining the 4196 North Shore Drive property, <br />for granting variances and issuing building permits (reference a 1979 side setback variance <br />application by Touve). Lots 58,59,60 and 61 have always remained as 4 separate vacant tax parcels. <br />Jim Touve took over the entire property in the 1970's and sold just Lots 55-56 to Kevin & Lisa Olson <br />in 1986. When City staff became aware of this transaction in 1987, staff advised Touve and Olson