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I I . - - - CITY OF ARDEN HILLS MEMORANDUM DATE: October 25, 1999 Mayor and City Council / jJ.J I!. 1// A~ . '/:;~ Nancy Randall, Associate Pla~ TO: FROM: SUBJECT: Planning Case #99-19, Variance (Front Yard Setback) Daniel Taylor, 1605 and 1609 Lake Johanna Blvd. Request. The applicant is requesting approval of a front yard setback variance on two properties (15 feet proposed, when 40 feet is required). The applicant is proposing to relocate the single family home on 1605 Lake Johanna Boulevard to 1609 Lake Johanna Boulevard and construct a new single family home on 1605 Lake Johanna Boulevard (Exhibit A). Both would require front yard setback variances. Background. The applicant currently has a 28 by 72 foot single family home located at 1605 Lake Johanna Boulevard and a small cabin at 1609 Lake Johanna Boulevard. He would like to demolish the cabin at 1609 Lake Johanna Boulevard and relocate his current home at 1605 Lake Johanna Boulevard to 1609 Lake Johanna Boulevard. The home at 1609 Lake Johanna Boulevard has access from a 30-foot wide private easement. The home at 1605 Lake Johanna Boulevard has access from the 30-foot wide private easement and Lake Johanna Boulevard. In 1987, the City Attorney determined that the access easement is not a public easement dedicated to the City. It is a legally established easement in favor of and for the benefit of the adjacent property owners, including the applicant. It is reasonably safe to assume that no standard public street will ever be constructed on the easement. The applicant would like to build a new home at 1605 Lake Johanna Blvd. The applicant does not have a house plan at this time, however; after looking at several plans, the applicant feels that a comer side yard setback variance will be needed, due to the proximity of the pool and other setback requirements. The Zoning Ordinance states that the shorter of the two sides on a comer lot is the front yard, however; the easement is not a public street. Staff did, however, determine that the other three houses on the private easement would call the easement facing side the front, thus the comer lot could do the same. The applicant wishes to keep the rear line of the homes in line with the two homes to the north in order to save a common backyard shared by the two homes and neighbors. A demolition permit is required to demolish the existing cabin and the applicant will be required to bring the relocated home up to today's building standards inside and outside.