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EXHIBIT g 2 <br />SIXTEEN NEW PROPERTIES ON CRYSTAL BAY - A NEGATIVE PRECEDENT??? <br />J. Mabusth, in a memo to the Council on October 25, 1984, reviewed the <br />properties along Crystal Bay and came to the incredible finding that <br />there were 16 commonly owned pairs of lots that could seek division, <br />resulting in 16 new residences on Crystal Bay, if the owner of a <br />similar pair of lots at 1620 Shadywood were granted the variance <br />needed to build on one of the lots. <br />I walked a mile north of my house at 1860 Shadywocd and found eight <br />pairs of commonly owned lots (using the plat saps with outlined pairs <br />of lots provided by the city); in less distance to the south I found <br />another eight pairs of lots. The pairs of lots ranged from 80't3 150' <br />wide. Most were 100' or 120' since the original platting along .itch <br />of Crystal Bay was in 50' and 60' lots. <br />Of sixteen commonly owned properties, one already had two houses, one <br />on each lot; three pairs of lots involved one vacant lot next to a lot <br />which held a house. The three vacant lots were clearly buildable. In <br />TWELVE CASES the existing houses WERE CENTERED on the two lots in such <br />a way so as to cross the shared lot line leaving no room to add an <br />additional structure. <br />For the Mabusth "negative precedent" to occur, 13 of 16 property <br />owners would have to destroy 13 existing homes worth an average of <br />$100,000 each to acquire 13 new lots with less value than the <br />homes that were destroyed to produce the new lots. This sswply does <br />not sake sense. <br />But it did influence the Council which in later findings noted that <br />the LR-IC patterns of development in the Navarre area offered the <br />potential for 43 new properties if the application in question were <br />approved. This is of course absurd. <br />The facts are that if all of these property owners were <br />encoura;ed by the city to tear down their existing homes so that <br />they could acquire a new lot to build on ... most would refuse <br />resulting in less than a half dozen new homes. <br />And where is the evidence that the Crystal Bay / Navarre areas cannot <br />accomodate a half dozen new hos"9 <br />