10-23-1989 - Agenda Packet City Council - regular meeting

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R �y l Zoning File #1458 October 19•, 1989 Page of 3 1. Planning Commission informed the applicant that it is the City's intent that the lots be ultimately combined and the guest house torn down, but Planning Commission specifically did not recommend that a condition of approval of the variances be combination of the lots, in deference to applicant's stated problems with having to refinance the two individual properties in order to combine them. Planning Commission relied on the fact that the cabin at 324 Westlake Street has no plumbing and is generally used for storage, although applicant indicated they may have to inhabit that structure on a temporary basis during construction of the second story addition. 2. Regarding determination of the average setback line, Planning Commission felt that the appropriate average setback line would be drawn between the adjacent residence to the south at 340 Westlake Street and the next house to the north at 3865 Bayside Road, iqnoring the location of the cabin at 324 Westlake Street. Based on this line determination, no average lak•shore setback variance 1.3 necessary. 3. 'the Planning Commission left the resolution of the septic system concerns to staff and the City Council. Please review the section entitled "septic system concerns" in the memo of September 15th. In summary, that discussion notes that the City has the right and responsibility to require expansion of an existing system when addition of bedrooms and plumbing fixtures changes the character or intensity of a use of a structure. Staff feels that the current cabin is 1 bedroom in nature and will be expanded to 2 bedrooms with the addition. The existing system is apparently very functional, with no seepage noted, but is also very substandard in design. Although no soil testing has occurred, the soil survey indicates soil types which normally would require a much larger drainfield and likely a mound system. It is unlikely that the existing system can be adled to or replaced in a fully conforming mannner based on the expected soil types. The issues remain: A) Should the house be allowed to double in iabitant. capacity with no septic system expansion? B) Should expansion of the system by increasing trench lengths be allowed regardless of actual soil types encountered on the basis that the existing system appears to be functioning relatively wall in the soils present?