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To: From: Date: Chair Hawn and Planning Commission Members Mike Gaffron, Senior Planning Coordinator April 12, 2000 3 Subject: #2549, David Lovelace, 220 Big Island -Request for Dock Access Note: This item was tabled by Planning Commission on 11-15-99 to allow the Big Island property owners time to review the options and hopefully reach a neighborhood consensus on a dock location. The intent was to have this resolved by mid-April. There is no consensus forthcoming from the neighborhood. The City is obligated at this time to resolve this issue for the applicant. List of Exhibits A -Planning Commission minutes 11-15-99 B -Staff memo and selected attachments 11-9-99 C -Letter from James Ogland 11-12-99 D -Staff sketches: D-1: Platted access locations D-2: schematics of access points C & D E -Original plats of Morse Island Park and Morse Island Park Second Addition F -Section 10.31 Subd. 5 -RS District: Private Improvements in Public Right-of-Way G-Photos H -Draft Comprehensive Plan Language for Big Island Staff Position on Access for Inland Lots: The plat of Morse Island Park in 1887 created many lakeshore lots, a lesser number of inland lots, and an interior right-of-way system with a number of alleys, roads and public areas extending from it to the lakeshore. The inland lots undoubtedly were expected to gain access to/from the lake via the platted right-of-ways. The plat of Morse Island Park placed the two widest and most expansive pl_Jblic rights-of-way at relatively low points in the topography where access by foot or horse-drawn vehicles was most feasible in summer and winter. All of these right-of-ways were "donate( d) and dedicate( d) to the public use forever" on the original 1887 plat. Since most of the lots abut the shoreline, use of the interior roadway system would presumably have been primarily by the owners of interior lots, and by owners of lakeshore lots with shoreline slopes that prohibit direct lake access. The members of the general public who did not own property on the island would presumably have only minimal occasion to use the right-of-ways; nevertheless, they were dedicated for public use rather than for private use. The largest of these public access points, "Bay Place", originally had approximately 200' of shoreline plus a lagoon. At some point prior to the 1970's, the northerly 150' of "Bay Place" was apparently vacated and the vacated portions attributed to Lots 21-22-23. We have yet to unearth records of this vacation, if they exist.