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To:John Gerhardson. Public Works Director <br />From: <br />Date: <br />Michael P. Gaffron, Assistant Planning & Zoning Administrator <br />April 4, 1995 <br />Subject: Hillside Place/Dahl Request for Wallace Avenue Access <br />List of Exhibits <br />A - 1908 Plat of Wallace Addition <br />B - 1911 Replat of Lots 42 and 43. etal. <br />C - Current Plat Map <br />D - Topography with Plat Overlay, 1" = 50’ <br />Dahl Survey <br />Staff Letter 3/22/94 <br />Staff Letter 4/26/94 <br />Engineer ’s Letter 8/8/94 <br />Staff Memo to Planning Commission 8/9/94 <br />Planning Commission Minutes 8/15/94 <br />Staff Memo to Council 9/8/94 <br />City Council Approval Resolution 9/12/94 <br />Council Minutes 9/12/94 <br />Agreement Between Segner and Marinos 10/27/94 <br />I’d like to provide some comments and documents in relation to the Grace Dahl request <br />for access to the Hillside Place property from Wallace Avenue: <br />1. <br />2. <br />3. <br />The 1908 plat of "Wallace’s Addition to the Village of Minnetonka Beach" shows <br />that Wallace Avenue did not exist at that time. Lot 43 abutting Bayview Place <br />extended north to the railroad right-of-way. <br />In 1911 Lots 42 and 43 were replatted into four perpendicular lots, the rear three <br />of which would have been landlocked if the 20 ’ Wallace Avenue right-of-way had <br />not been created. Wallace Avenue was dedicated to the public on that plat. It <br />seems obvious that Wallace Avenue was created to serve these new lots, and to <br />give each of them frontage on a roadway, but this can ’t so easily be construed as <br />being intended to provide access to Lot 44, which already had access to Hillside <br />Place. Fulhcr, it should be noted that if Wallace Avenue was to be vacated <br />today, the entire 20 ’ width would revert to the owners of 2200 Bayview Place, <br />the Matson’s. <br />There is an argument to be made that it would not be in the City ’s best interest <br />to vacate Wallace Avenue because it might be needed for future utilities (for <br />instance, bringing City water to Lot 44 from Bayview Place). There is, of <br />course, a significant difference between the benign existence of utilities as <br />opposed to an active driveway use.