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TO: Mayor Grabek and Council City Administrator Bernhardson FROM: Michael Gaffron, Asst. Planning & Zoning Admin. DATS: June 6, 1989 SUBJ: #1410-Ron and Julie Prineas, 1980 Heritage Drive Variance - Resolution Application - Request for lot width variance in order to construct a single family residence. Zoning District - LR-IA, 2 acre unsewered List of Exhibits - Exhibit A - Planning Commission Minutes 5/15/89 Exhibit B - Notice of Planning Commission Action 5/19/89 Exhibit C - Letter from Hennepin County re: Road Access Exhibit D - Alternate Drainfield Site Location & Definition of Buildable Envelope Exhibit E - Memo and exhibits of 5/11/89 Exhibit F - Draft Resolution Discussion - Please review the memo and exhibits of 5/ll/89r and the Planning Commission Minutes. Briefly, applicants have a narrow, separate 2-acre parcel adjacent to their homestead lot. The request is a lot width variance in order to sell the narrow lot as a separate building site. The applicants have provided the necessary septic testing information to show that two drainfield sites exist on the property. A possible third drainfield site, to the rear of the property (west), has not been tested, but would also likely prove suitable for a mound system, as do the two tested sites. The lot has legal access and frontage on County Road 15, and has 20' of lakeshore. At the Planning Commission public hearing, access became an issue because neighboring property owners expressed concern about the safety of a new driveway access onto County Road 15. It was suggested by the neighboring property owners that an access to the rear, via Heritage Drive, be considered. After much discussion, the Planning Commission voted 5-0 (with one abstension due to a potential conflict of interest) to recommend approval of the 170* lot width variance, conditioned on the following: