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Request for Council Action continued! Page 4 November 7, 1995 ,TTitm/n ti Zoning File #2065 Samuel and Joyce Marfield/Douglas and Cheryl Hill/William Toles Applicants obtaining formal Hennepin County DOT approval. Subject to confirmation of location of existing utilities, to be relocated or easements granted for them. -Minimum setback requested by Levy for Toles driveway (15* requested). Replat subject to standard drainage and utility easements. Subject to the granting of conservation and flowage easement over the wetland as defined by current topography. Subject to grading and drainage plan approval by the City Engineer/Public Works Department prior to final plat approval. Specific variances to be granted in the replat include: •Lot area and width, all lots. .Lot area and setback (150% standard), Marfield back lot. .Lack of frontage on public road (Marfield lot). •Other variances as may be subsequently tound (stafl has encountered only one additional variance, that for width of the outlot for access to the back lot, 30’ required, 25' proposed). Planning Commission noted a number of unique findings in support of the request, including the significant hardcover reductions that would occur as a result of removal of the cul-de-sac and portions of the roadwav; acceptance by the Long Lake Fire Department ot the proposed driveway surfacing plan which provides adequate fire equipment access; acceptance by Hennepin Countv Public Works of the proposed new driveway directly onto North Shore Dnve for the Toles residence: and a number of findings suggested by the property owners, including: .It is the only three-family cul-de-sac that drains into Lake Minnetonka that can be easily reveizetated to slow down the drainage over blacktop into the lake. .It is the only three-family cul-de-sac that involves the separated lake lot into two parts. This separation makes its owners cross a public street to get to their lakeshore.