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15-3774 <br /> Auguat 12,2015 <br /> Page 2 of 8 <br /> Exhibit D. Wetland Delineation Report Exceipts <br /> Exhibit E. City Engineer's Comments 8/13/I S <br /> Exhibit F. Site Airphotos <br /> Exhibit G. SewEr System Map <br /> Exhibit H. Plat Map&Properiy Owners List <br /> Backgronnd <br /> This property, one of Orano's few remai.ning Iarge lakeshoz�e estates,consists of approximately 31 <br /> acres, bordered on the north by Tanager Lake and the Dakota. Rail Trail, and on the south by <br /> County Road 15 (Shoreline Drive) and Smith's Bay of Lake Minnetonka. The owner has chosen <br /> to split off three new 2-plus acre lakeshore residentiallots, each with frontage on Tanager Lake. <br /> The existing residence and accessory buildings will rema.in with appraxiinatety 13 acres of dry <br /> buitdable Iand which could be further subdivided in the future. <br /> All 3 new lots are proposed to be accessed via � extension of Heritage Lane, a public road <br /> extending fram County Road I5. The property was added to the Metropolitan Urban Service Area <br /> (MLTSA} in 2001 in order ta allow the installation and use of municipal sewer. All 3 new lots are <br /> intended to be served with mwiicipal sewer and private wells. <br /> Conformity with the Orona 2030 Cammunity Management Plan <br /> The proposed 4-lot subdivision is in conformity with the guiding of�tb,is azea for single �amily <br /> lakeshore residential developmem at a density of 1 w�uit per 2 acres. <br /> Conformity with Zoning District Lot Requirement� <br /> The property is in the LR lA, Single Family Lakeshore Residential District, which allows for <br /> single fami�y residential uses requiring a minimum lot size of 2 dry buildable acres and a minimum <br /> lot wzdth of 200' as measured at the lakeshore and at the 75' lakeshore setback line. The <br /> pz�eliminary piat indicates the area and width requirements will be met for each proposed lot. <br /> The property is within both the Shareland Overlay District and the defined Stormwater Quality <br /> Overlay District, and is th�re�ore subject to hardcover regulations. Each 1ot appears to have a <br /> suitable building site meeting the minimum front, side, side street and rear setbacks of the LR-lA <br /> Distxict, Note that the Dakota Rail Trail is considered as a side street for setback purposes for <br /> proposed Lot 1. Each new lot is large enough to have no problem meeting the 25% hardcover <br /> limitatian. <br /> The developer has been advised that unless site grad.ing to create individual house building pads <br /> as part of the subdiv�ision improvements is proposed, the existing grades for measuring building <br /> heights and number of stories will be the grades that exist taday. Raised pads that are created must <br /> be acknowledged in the development approval stage as creatzng`new existiag grades'. No gradin,g <br /> of ind.ividuat pads is currently indicated on the preliminazy plat drawings. <br /> Relationship to Surrounding Deveiopment <br /> The praposed single-f�nily development is consistent with exisking development in the <br /> s�rrounding neighborhood. Similaz single family lots with 2-plus acre lot siz�s exist to the east <br /> and southwest,while the lots within the adjacent Foxhill neighborhood(Heritage Drive and Lane} <br /> average approximately I.OS acres,having been created in 1965 per the 1-acre zoni.ng then in effect, <br />