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ATTACHMENT TO THE APPLICATION OF ROBERT D. ERICKSON TO COMBINE TWO PARCELS LOCATED AT 364 AND 372 WESTLAKE AND REARRANGE THE LOT LINES BETWEEN THEM Mr. E' ckson purchased the 2.01 acre property (lots 10. 11. & 12) at 372 Westlake In 1997, and has recently acquired the 0.65 acre property (lot 9) at 364 Westlake, creating a 2.7 acre parcel under his ownership. He now proposes to rearrange the lot line between lots 9 and 10 to create athe 46.189 sf. (1.1 ac.) lot A and the 69,761 st. (1.6 ac) lot B. The attached exhibit one “Site Plan" illustrates the homesites that would be created. Mr. Erickson will build a new home for his family on lot B. and will offer lot A for sale for a new single family home to be built by another. Each homesite meets all required yard setbacks for the R*2 zoning district and all hardcover and other coverage requirements of the City Code. The pattern for the present development of Westlake was set in October of 1912 when the “Hillside Park" plat was filed. The plat provided 50 ft. wide lots running from Westlake St. These lots extended approximately 500 ft. to the east and west of the Street, creating 2/3 acre building sites that are 10 times as long as they are wide. A pattern of one home per lot, with the home on the Lake on the east side, and near the center of the lot on the west, developed. Recently, on a home by home basis, this pattern has been flexed as lots have been combined to permit a more buildable site by modern standards for area and dimension. See the attached exhibit two, "Present Pattern of Ownership and Platting". Mr. Erickson proposes a lot line rearrangement between lots 9 and 10 that would move the line 20 ft. to the north and then bend it down to the Lake at about the midpoint of the lake frontage of the combined parcels. The former 364 Westlake (now lot B) would be increased in area 2.5 times to become a 1.6 ac. parcel. The former 372 Westlake would be modified to provide a balance between the area of the two lots. Approval of the rearrangement of the lot lines, and the replacement of the present two homes with the two new homes it will allow, will provide benefit to the community in four areas. The proposed plan, by better balancing the area of the lots brings them closer to conformance with the requirements of the zoning code and permits the development of two homes in compliance with all setback and yard requirements of the LR-1A district. The proposed plan will visually enhance the area by replacing the obsolete, unsightly and unoccupied buildings on the southern half of the site with new homes conforming to the required setbacks from the Lake. The new homes will also provide the environmental benefit of connection to the sanitary sewer now in place in Westlake, and by being accomplished with no change, and possibly a reduction, in the hardcover (see exhibit three, “Hardcover Calculations”) on the present site. All the structures and the septic system now located within the 0-75 ft. lakeshore setback area will be removed. And last, the rearrangement will permit the redevelopment to occur without any change to the present zoning designation. October 20.1998 t* .V . : « * 'V -----X ••• V'•A :>J