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3. The dimensional standards in the code only apply to front lots not this back lot. <br />4.Access requirements. <br />A. The access outlot is platted in a 30' width and Outlot A is provided to accommodate <br />screening. However, drainage and snow removal must be accommodated within <br />Outlot B when the driveway is constructed, and a requirement of final plat approval <br />should be that a driveway design be provided for Outlot B prior to final plat approval <br />incorporating the necessary retaining walls and drainage vvays to ensure no impact <br />on Outlot A or the adjacent residence. <br />B. Outlot B may appropriately be used for access for both Lots 1 and 2. <br />C. The driveway within the back lot can be located at least 1 O' from adjacent lots. <br />D. Only 2 residents will be ser\ed by a driveway within the access outlot. <br />5. <br />6. <br />E. This section states "no access outlot may bt. platted abutting an adjacent outlot except <br />w hen the intent is to combine the two access outlots for creation of a public or private <br />road meeting City standards." Staff does not recall the reason for this back lot code <br />requirement, but it probably relates to concerns about creating lake access for <br />lakeshore lots. The two ways to address this would be to either grant a variance to <br />allow Outlots A and B to be adjacent to each other, which staff would have no <br />problem w ith given the intent of Outlot A; or to combine the two outlots into a single <br />access Outlot, still considering that I,ot 1 is a back lot, still considering that it is <br />merely a driveway outlot to serve Lots 1 and 2, and placing covenant restrictions on <br />the westerly 20' of Outlot A to avoid any disturbance of that area in order to preserve <br />its intent as butler for the adjacent home. <br />This code section requires that "driveways constructed in access outlots shall be adequately <br />screened by fencing or vegetation at the discretion of the City, at all points to the rear of the <br />required street yard of the front lot, so as to eliminate intrusion of vehicle headlights into the <br />side or rear yard of adjacent lots". This means that a fence or other screening needs to be <br />provided along the southeast comer of Lot 1 to avoid headlights impacting the adjacent <br />neighboring lot. <br />"The street yard of the back lot shall be adequately screened by fencing or vegetation at the <br />discretion of the City so as to eliminate intrusion of vehicle headlights into the side or rear <br />yards of adjacent lots." Since the street yard of the back lot is the east lot line, and intrusion <br />of vehicle headlights into the side or rear yard of the adjacent lot to the east will have little <br />impact based on the proposed house location at the top of the hill, staff suggests there is no <br />need for this screening.