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To: <br />From: <br />Date: <br />Chair Lindquist and Orono Planning Commission Members <br />Ron Moorse, City Administrator <br />Michael P. Gaffron, Assistant Planning & Zoning Administrator <br />April 15, 1997 <br />Subject: #2201 George Adams, James Fieger and S. T. Robb, Jr., 570, 580 and 590 Big <br />Island -Revised Request -Approval for Septic System Improvements in Street <br />Right-of-Way -Continuation of Public Hearing <br />Summary of Application: Applicants originally proposed vacation of portions of right-of-way <br />dedicated within the plat of Pleasant View Lake Minnetonka. This was reviewed by Planning <br />Commission on January 21, 1997, and tabled to allow applicants to research further options for <br />maintaining access to adjacent properties. <br />Applicants subsequently had their site evaluator do additional investigation, and their proposed <br />shared septic system has been redesigned so that the drainfield is totally within the existing <br />property boundaries. This no longer requires a vacation of the right-of-way, but does require <br />approval of a permit for installation of private sewer connection pipes within the City right-of- <br />way per Zoning Code Section 10.31, Subd. 5. <br />List of Exhibits <br />A -Section 10.31, Subd. 5 <br />B -Letter of Request 3/25/97 <br />C -Revised Septic System Site Evaluation Excerpts <br />D -Planning Commission Minutes 1/21/97 <br />E -Letters Received from Neighboring Property Owners Since January Meeting <br />F -Memo and Exhibits of 1/7/97 <br />Discussion <br />Applicants initially proposed to vacate portions of right-of-way to accommodate a new <br />drainfield within the right-of-way. The proposed vacation raised concerns about future access <br />to the adjacent property to the east, as well as general access to the northerly portions of the <br />island. Planning Commission and staff suggested that a minor vacation of right-of-way near <br />the drainfield area might be appropriate in conjunction with acquiring additional property from <br />the large landholder to the northeast, in order to maintain suitable legal access to the lakeshore <br />property directly east of the drainfield site. <br />Absent a positive response from the owner of the adjacent land needed for access, applicants <br />had their site evaluator do further investigation, and he was able to redesign the system so that <br />the drainfield trenches will not extend outside the Robb property.