02-20-2024 Planning Commission Packet

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r�. Exhibit E MINUTES OF THE ORONO PLANNING COMMISSION January 11, 2023 6:00 o'clock p.m. 6. LA22-000069 BRETT CARBON, 2480 CARMAN STREET, SKETCH PLAN. Oakden said this application is similar to the previous one. They're requesting to split their lot. Again, it fronts on Shoreline Drive and it's a long, narrow lot with that lagoon. This parcel is slightly larger; it's roughly 1.85 acres of land. The lot is improved with a single-family home on the portion that is currently under construction. In 2020, it was an older home. They have since applied for a new home permit, and that's under construction today. I believe on the survey it's calling out the footprint of the original house to be removed. The northern inlet on the north side of the lagoon is unimproved. The property is unique with, again, the split zoning LR 1 B or a one -acre minimum to the south and LR 1 C one half -acre minimum to the north. Again, it's heavily wooded with the grading drops but less impacts of wetland on this parcel. The applicant's goal is to facilitate a new building site on the north of the inlet. And similar to the 2022 application, they are proposing the north lot would be conforming. The southern lot would be non -conforming. The existing parcel is conforming to the zoning district. The proposed northern parcel is the half -acre minimum and would propose to meet all the zoning requirements. The proposed southern parcel in the LR I district would be substandard in area so there still is not enough land to meet the LR I zoning district. Planning Commission and Council would have to discuss if they are in support of a lot area variance to create a new non -conforming lot. This one has the same engineer comments as before including the discussion of connectivity and then County permitting requirements with access to Shoreline. Are you comfortable with a proposal that includes variances to create a new non -conforming lot? And then do you have concerns about any layout regarding Hennepin County and the engineers comments for access? You are asked to discuss and provide feedback to the applicant. Brett Larsen, 2040 Carmine Street and Mark Gronberg, Gronberg and Associates, Long Lake, appeared as the applicants. Mr. Larsen said he and his wife are building a home on the southern portion. On the northern portion we've looked at a few different things. We've talked about a few different options, including putting commercial on the northernmost part, and residential on the southernmost part. It is all buildable; there are no wetland issues. After working through the options with Mark, it gets kind of tight when you're trying to create an easement or a roadway between the two. So the plan would be to have one single family home, one lot, one single family home on that lot. Mr. Gronberg said they looked at putting a shared cul-de-sac with both properties but it takes up too much area and the setbacks are onerous. We're certainly in favor of a shared access between the two properties so that there's only one there. And I think like Bob said, right in, right out. It makes a lot of sense on a busy road like that. A couple other things, looking at your 2030 land use plan, it shows that it's two to three units per acre. So we're certainly in favor of doing a rezoning here to get that maybe before the 2030. But another thing I wanted to bring up is back a couple years ago we had a neck going up to a 25 foot strip that went up to the north, just to make the dry land on that southerly lot over an acre. And then the northerly lot was still 100 feet wide. It seems stupid to have a 2546ot strip up there that they could never use, but it did technically meet the requirements.