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TO: Council A. ITING FROM: Michael P. Gaffron, Assistant Zoning Administra,6k 81?35 DATE: June 24, 1985 Of Y or erogo SUBJECT: #932 Ward E. Edwards, 2474 Carman Street - Variance Zoning District - LR-lB Application - Lakeshore Setback and Hardcover Variances List of Exhibits Exhibit A - Application with letter of request Exhibit B - Plat Map Exhibit C - Property Owners List Exhibit D - Survey with hardcover calculations Exhibit E - Staff sketch (2) Exhibit F - Letters from adjacent property owners Exhibit G - Airphoto Ward Edwards is requesting to locate his new home at a distance of 50' from Lake Minnetonka. He has a very unique lot which actually fronts on County Road 15 but extends across a lagoon to the proposed building site which is accessed by a driveway easement over an adjoining property (see Exhibit E). The dry buildable land area of the building site is approximately 30,000 square feet or 0.69 acre. The dry buildable land north of the lagoon is approximately one acre. Since this is a lot of record, the definition of lot area in the zoning chapter excludes the lagoon as dry buildable, but would allow the crediting of dry non-contiguous lands within the same lot. If this was a subdivision application, the dry buildable would have to be contiguous. The question posed to the Planning Commission was, should the applicant be required to forever credit a portion of his dry buildable land north of the lagoon toward the buildable area, which would limit his future subdivision capability? He may r.::ed or want to keep the northerly portion as -is anyway, since it is his only road frontage. Interestingly, tY therly 496 feet of the property, or in effect the entire portion of buildable land north of the lagoon, is zoned LR- 1C-1, not LR-lB as the building site is. The Planning Commission recommended that the land to the north of the lagoon not be dedicated forever as credit toward the lot area on the building site south of the lagoon; but the Planning Commission did recommend that no hardcover ever be allowed in the 0-75' setback zone on the north side of the lagoon.