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WAYZATA SHORELAND FLEXEBELITY REQUEST AUn 1992 RECz...^ REGION' 2 WATERS INTRODUCTION The City of Wayzata has developed adjacent to two major bodies of water, Lake Minnetonka and Gleason Lake. These natural amenities add significant aesthetic, recreational and economic value to the community. Shoreland in Wayzata and Lake Minnetonka has historically developed with a productive commercial and residential base in its downtown area and very low density single family development in the remaining area. Gleason Lake shoreland has developed with a variety of single and multiple family uses. The potential for additional new residential development exists on Gleason Lake, while Lake Minnetonka has potential sites for commercial and residential development/redevelopment. Therefore, flexibility in shoreland standaras which protect the shoreland areas and quality of the water, while allowing controlled development and redevelopment is of highest importance to Wayzata. Based on the historical development of the City, the direct application of the shoreland standards would result in nonconforming status for uses primarily in the commercial areas, but also in residential areas throughout the shoreland area. The potential for a large ^irea of the City to become nonconforming complicates landowners' rights, inhibits development, and affects the City's tax base. In this regard, the City of Wayzata, as part of its implementation of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources' St^tQ-W^d? Standards for "Management of Shoreland Areas" is _ requesting flexibility from portions of the shoreland standards in order to carry out the intent of the shoreland standards while recognizing and accommodating the urban development character of the City and its continued development/redevelopment. The issues and analysis are based on background technical data that has been physically inventoried and included within a ghoirgl^hd Management: Plan for the Wavzata Shoreland District.., The Shoreland Plan has been adopted as an amendment to the 1980 Wayzata Comprehensive Plan. The plan is the basis for and functions with the Shoreland Ordinance in providing the necessary regulation for the shoreland areas. The plan specifies areas in the shoreland which require flexibility and how Wayzata will address eac.n flexibility request item. The background technical information on density, lot coverage and lot width have been compared to the DNR shoreland management standards where applicable, and tne C-ty Zoning Ordinance to determine the level of development capacity or the City.