Agenda Packet Cc - regular meeting 7/24/1989

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8. In 1975, the applicant requested and was granted variances to front and side setbacks to construct a detached garage on the property. The City granted variance approval subject to legal combination of the four individual tax parcels existing at that time, so that the detached garage would be on the same parcel as the principal structure, per the requirements of the Municipal Zoning Code in effect at that time and still in effect today. The configuration of the four individual tax parcels was such that all four had to be combined in order to place the garage on the same parcel as the house. City Council Minutes of November 24, 1975, indicate then Zoning Administrator Henry Muhlch, had discussed the substandard status of the four parcels with the applicant and applicant had agreed to the combination of the four parcels if the variances were approved. The combination occurred in July, 1976. 9. Lots 1 and 2 as proposed would not only require variances to the Zoning Chapter, but to Section 11.31, Subdivision 2, Lot Dimensions and Subdivision 3, Lot Area Minimum, of the Subdivision chapter because minimum standards of the LR-IB zoning district cannot be satisfied. 10. The property, consisting of portions of Lots 3, 4, 12, 13 and a portion of vacated Canal Street, all within the plat of Saga Hill Revised, was originally platted in 1887, and modified to create the existing lot boundaries at some undocumented time thereafter. 11. The existing residence on the property was apparently constructed in 1950, prior to adoption of the lot standards currently in effect today. 12. The Planning Commission at their meeting of June 19, 1989, recommended denial based on the following findings: a) The subdivision creates two substandard lots from one conforming lot, thereby setting an adverse precedent. Page 3 of 8