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Date: March 11, 2024 Item: 16 Presenter: Natalie Nye, Planner Section: Community Development Report Title: LA24-000003, Brett Larson, 2480 Carman Street, Sketch Plan 1.Purpose: Provide informal feedback to the applicant regarding their proposed rezoning. 2.MN§15.99 Application Deadline: This application is a sketch plan and the application deadline does not apply. 3.Background: The applicant owns and resides at 2480 Carman Street. This property is a long and narrow lot that is divided by an inlet. The total land area of the parcel is 1.85 acres with approximately 1.04 acres north of the inlet and 0.75 acres south of the inlet. The property is also split zoned with the northern portion of the lot zoned LR-1C1 and the southern portion zoned LR-1B. The southern portion of the lot is zoned LR-1B (1-acre zone) and contains a single-family home. The northern portion of the lot is zoned LR-1C-1 (0.5-acre zone) and does not contain any improvements. The applicant has interest in subdividing the property so that the two areas of the lot that are separated by the inlet become separate parcels that could each contain a single-family home. However, a subdivision of the property with the current zoning would result in a nonconforming parcel. The southern portion of the property is 0.75 acres which does not meet the LR-1B requirement of 1.0 acres. The applicant has proposed rezoning the southern portion of the property from LR-1B to LR-1C which allows for a 0.5 acre minimum. In order to avoid spot zoning, the applicant has also proposed the rezoning of the southern portion of 2474 Carman Street and all of 2470 and 2490 Carman Street from LR-1B to LR-1C as shown in Exhibit C. A sketch plan application was made in January of 2023 for the subdivision of 2480 Carman Street along the inlet. The previous application created a substandard lot which the Planning Commission and City Council did not support. 4.Analysis: The applicant is proposing to rezone 4 parcels to the south of the inlet; 2470 Carman Street, 2490 Carman Street, and the southern portions of 2474 and 2480 Carman Street. The proposal would allow lot splits to occur for 2474 and 2480 Carman Street that would result in compliant and conforming lots to the north and south of the inlet. The rezoning would bring all four lots (if 2474 and 2480 Carman Street are subdivided) into conformity. Currently all of the proposed parcels are all less than an acre which does not conform to the 1 acre minimum of the LR-1B zoning district. If the parcels are rezoned the applicant would move forward with a rezoning application and a plat application process to subdivide his parcel. The Comprehensive Plan has this area guided as Urban Estates Density Residential (0.5-2 units/ AGENDA ITEM 189