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9. Lot Area Comparison With Neighborhood - Exhibit F shows the existing developed lakeshore lot sizes for the east side of Shadywood Road from County Road 51 to the Coffee Bridge. Existing lot sizes range from 0.22 acres to 1 .00 acres. Lot 21 in question is 0. 35 acres. Of 25 properties in this strip, 11 (or 44%) are equivalent to or smaller than Lot 21. Lot 22 in question, with the house, is 0.40 acres. Again, 11 of 25 (or 44%) are equivalent or smaller. Also, overall, 17 of 25 (or 68%) are smaller than 0.50 acre. There are four properties larger than the 0.74 acre of Lots 21 and 22 combined. The average existing density is 0.48 acres/building site (11.89 acres 25 properties) excluding the two lots in question. Based on the above, a case can be made either way i.e. a significant percentage of neighboring properties are equivalent or smaller than the proposal; yet the proposal yields two lots significantly smaller than the average lot area. 10. Similar Applications Which May Be Precedents - what equival nt applications may have set a precedent for this application? The Lorge properties (3695-2697 Casco Point Road )come to mind, with existing lots of about 0. 48 acres (house ) and 0.44 acres (vacant ) and leaving a setback of ±6' for the existing house. As you are probably aware, this was the subject of a lawsuit which was finally settled in favor of the applicant, allowing construction on the 0.44 acre lot but with no other variances granted. Thedif ferences between the two applications would seem to lie only in the magnitude of the lot area and width variances requested. In the Smiley application, again similar to this, a lot line rearrangement was required in order to create a setback, since the existing house extender: into the vacant lot. This also is very similar to the Douglas Smith application in which a commonly owned lot of .43 acres was approved as a separate building site, but with no setback variance required for the existing house. Lot w/House Variance Vac Lot Variance Lorge 0.48 ac 0.02 ac or 4% 0.44 ac 0.06 or 12% Johnstone 0.40 ac 0.10 ac or 20% 0.35 ac 0.15 ac or 30% Smith 0.71 ac none 0.38 ac 0.12 ac or 24A Smiley 0.65 ac 0.35 ac or 35% 0.59 ac 0.41 ac or 41% .he C'ounci 1 has consistently approved vacant lots as buildable with lot sizes of 0.40 acres, in recent applications with lakeshore and non- lakeshore situations, including: Clifford -- 4760 North Shore Drive, 0.39 acres; Brockopp - 993 Wi ldhurst Trail, 0.40 acres; Haapa la - 4015 Dahl Road, 0.39 acres. Alsc a number of smaller lots have been approved for building sites where a house or cabin was previously existing. If this application is approved, it may set a precedent by allowing a common 0.35 acre lot to be declared buildable, hence a cursory review of the LR-IC district indicates a potential of as many as 10 or 15 new building sites might be created from existing common ownership lots that couldn't be built on if required to more closely meet the 1/2 aerf requirement.