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A. Area Variance. The findings are as follows; <br />5) <br />The properly is a vacant lot containing approximately .69 acres of <br />contiguous dry buildable land exclusive of roadways and pond <br />areas. <br />2) The lot was created as part of RLS No. 744 in March 1958, and <br />met the 25,000 s.f./120 ’ area and width standards then in effect. <br />Ordinance No. 22, adopted 10/12/59, established a minimum <br />building lot size of one acre and 140 ’ minimum width at the <br />building line. That Co<<t* allowed the City Council to grant <br />variances for substandard lots in single separate ownership. <br />The property continued its stams as a substandard lot with the <br />1967 rezoning to R-IC, one acre single family residential. <br />Tlie lot became even more substandard when the area was rezoned <br />to RR-IB in 1975, requiring two acres and 200 ’ width. <br />Prior to 1975, substandard lots of similar size and character were <br />granted building permits for construction of single family <br />residences without variance approval in the Cygnet/Leaf <br />neighborhood in which the property is located. <br />l,ot area and width variances were granted for similarly simated <br />lots in the Cygnet/Leaf neighborhood after the 1975 rezoning to <br />two acre lot standards. <br />The property has been in single separate ownership by the current <br />owner since 1959. <br />On November 9, 1992 the City agreed to re»iucc the principal <br />amount of an $18,880 sewer assessment finding the assessment an <br />unfair burden to the propert) owner on the basis that as a lot in <br />single separate ownership, it likely would have been allowed to be <br />Pace 2 of 6 <br />1