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<br />. <br /> <br />CITY OF ARDEN HILLS <br /> <br />MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />SUBJECT: <br /> <br />May 24, 1999 <br />Mayor and City Council / <br /> <br />Nancy Randall, Associate ~~ <br /> <br />Planning Case 99-03 Preliminary and Final Plat with Variances <br />Josephine East LLC, 3171 Lexington Avenue <br /> <br />DATE: <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />Request <br />The applicant is requesting approval of a preliminary and final plat consisting of four (4) <br />lots on a 2.47 acre parcel zoned R-2 Single Family Residential District (Exhibit A). The <br />request also includes variances: lot width 80 feet is provided where 85 feet is required for <br />all four proposed lots. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Backe:round <br />At the February 3,1999, Planning Commission meeting the applicant withdrew an <br />application for preliminary plat and variances to pursue a change to the Official Map. <br />The City Council voted to deny the applicant's request to change the Official Map on <br />March 29, 1999. However the City Council endorsed the concept of providing a <br />temporary cul-de-sac at this projects north property line. The future extension of <br />Shoreline Lane would occur with the development of the Bachman property, which is <br />located to the north of this site. <br /> <br />The existing official map was approved in July of 1993, showing the connection of <br />Shoreline Lane via a straight through alignment (Exhibit B). This was approved after the <br />City of Arden Hills conducted a study of this area (Distributed with 2/3/99 Planning <br />Commission packet item 98-33). <br /> <br />The proposed lots exceed the depth and area the code requires, however, they do not meet <br />the required lot width. The lot width is proposed at 80 feet where 85 feet is required. <br /> <br />The official map plan adopted by the City Council shows Block 1, Lot 1 and 2 as being <br />split into four parcels two having access onto Shoreline Lane and the other two having <br />access onto Lexington Avenue. Ifthe City were to receive a request to split these lots in <br />the future it would require a lot width variance (80 feet provided when 85 feet is <br />required) and a lot area variance (10,000 square feet provided when 11,000 square feet is <br />required). <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Currently the property is accessed from Lexington Avenue. The proposal would extend <br />Shoreline Lane from the south midway through the property. The applicant is proposing <br />to deed the right-of-way to the city for Shoreline Lane to extend through the property <br />