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215713v3 yard setback on a corner lot: Section 1320.06 of the Arden Hills City Code requires a side yard setback of 40 feet on corner lots. 2. The City received the Applicant’s Application for a Variance on March 31, 2021 requesting a variance to decrease the required side yard setback from 40 feet to 7.82 feet to accommodate the proposed garage addition. The rectangular shaped lot, though relatively narrow compared to its length, is of substantial size for lots in the neighborhood, having a lot area over twice the minimum lot size of 14,000 square feet (property is 37,541 square feet). 3. The scope or scale of the Variance request is very large, asking to reduce a 40 foot setback to 7.82 feet. 4. The large Variance request would further reduce the green space in the side yard area and require ongoing maintenance of the current screening, or further plantings to provide additional screening, all of which would need to be located it the City’s right-of-way. 5. Granting of the Variance would increase responsibility on the City to maintain vegetative buffer from the traveled portion of the right-of-way. 6. The size and layout of the Subject Property provides multiple alternative options for the Applicant that would allow for increased accessory structure and floor area, and the shape of the lot is not unique in that lots in the neighborhood all have odd shapes and sizes. DECISION Based upon these Findings of Fact and the Council’s knowledge of the Subject Property, the neighborhood and the community, the application for the proposed Variance, the City Council hereby denies Applicant’s Variance request. ADOPTED by the Arden Hills City Council this _____ day of ___________, 2021. CITY OF ARDEN HILLS By: _______________________________ David Grant, Its Mayor ATTEST: ____________________________________ Julie Hanson, Its City Clerk