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D Thomas L. McCarthy. Background June 16, 1993 Page 2 The easement option typically resulted in lots that didn t abut either a public or Private road, hence a variance for lack of frontage was automatically required. The way to avoid this variance was to create a Bag lot e.xtendmg to the street. However, this resulted in the need to grant a lot width variance since the lot width at the front setback line from the street was merely the width of the ttagpolc and not even close to meeting the width requirement. The solution to both the easement and flag lot options was the outlot option By creatine an outlot' driveway that in a sense ftinctionc ' as a private road .t could be rruued'that the back lot now abuts a road, and the entire length of the lot Itne that abuts th^ outlot would become the front lot line for deftning a front setback line and theretore the lot widih. Over the last five years or so, the City has normally required the outlot option, and the area of the outlot is e.xcluded from K t area. An inadvenent effect of the new shoreland lot width definition was to revive the possibility tor flag lots on ^e lakeshore This would normally not be an issue e.xcept in a case such^ McC^y s whe^ tota area of the property does not allow for the outlot option. This leads to issue i.e. hardcover in the flagpole. Hardcover Zone Balancing. The question here is whetiier it is legitimate to allow a liigher percentage and square footage of hardcover in a zone further from the lake, as long^ the zone c oser to the lake is reduced by an equivalent square footage, to avoid the need for variance. While I believe this is a logical policy and procedure to have in place, and while I would argue rather vehemently to persuade anyone that this is a reasonable, beneticial and fair policy. I will concede tluu the bookkeeping and future review procedures niust be in plaL so^that future problems don ’t arise. For imtance, if a lot is allowed an extra I OOO^s f of hardcover in its 2.50-500’ zone in exchange for reducing its allowance m iicTs-IW zone by that same 1,000 s.f.. this must be adequately documented in Ctry files and procedures put in place so that at some fumre date j* ^ allowed to go up to his "25%” limit since his actual limit is really 1,000 s.f. less th the 25% figure. Looking at Exhibit B. assume that the entire fla^ole wide, and an 11’ wide driveway runs its entire length. This constitutes 36 in the 250-500’. where 30% would be allowed, and in the e.xample. results m 1,6UU s.r. hardcover where only 1,350 s.f. would be allowed at a 30% level.