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REQUEST FOR COU>JCIL ACTION JUN 1 3 1994 QTYOFORONO DATE: June 8, 1994 ITEM NO.: ! I Department Approval: Name Jeanne A. Mabustli Title Building & Zoning Administrator Administrator Reviewed:Agenda Section: Zoning Item Description: #1930 Margaret Cost, 255 Brown Road South - Variance - Resolution Brief Review of Application For more detail on this review, please view the Planning Commission minutes of the May 16th meeting and the staff memo of May 11, 1994 enclosed in your packet. The application involves a structural setback variance from a protected tributary. Long Lake Creek, review Exhibit L. The structure will meet the 30 ’ setback from the defined top of the bluff but cannot meet the required 100 ’ setback from the protected tributary. The severe sloping topography to the west and the fact that there is only one location for septic development on this site has limited the choice of placement of the structure. If the structure was to be moved to the west and south, the access drive from Brown Road would be at a greater than 10% slope and would require major cuts into the existing elevations. Ceil Strauss of the DNR has advised that they have no problem with the strucniral setback from the tributary as long as the 30 ’ bluff setback was being maintained. She also advised that the access drive should be able to meet the minimum 20’ setback from the defined top of the b' <ff. The recently amended site plan. Exhibit L, shows the access drive meeting the 20’ setback. Dave Zetterstrom of the Hennepin County Department of Transportation has approved the proposed curb cut. The proposed drive will encroach no closer than 12 ’ to the southern side lot line and is shown at approximately a 7% slope. The neighbor to the immediate south is concerned with the location and size of the structure noting that septic development will destroy the majority of the trees that now provide the natural screening from the site of the proposed residence. The applicant has agreed to develop the alternate site located more to the west that will allow the saving of mamre plantings at the upper elevations to the e^,st. The on-site evaluator has provided additional testing to confirm that die site would support the proposed residence. The neighbor to the south asked the Planning Commission to consider the shared drive that was origiiially proposed with the Bytield Plat. The Planning Commission advised the neighbor that this matter had already been resolved by both the County and the City at the time of the sale to the current owner. The res ' ve was to allow separate access for both properties.