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variance reducing the required lot width by 13 ft. Parcel B, at 86% of the required width, is still a very large lot in area and depth which should provide for a well designed new home at this width. The site plan would be very similar to those used on lots with the 85 ft minimum width required in the R-2 District. e This parcel, and the parcel to the north a 4440 Hamline with a frontage of 150 ft and an area of 29,185 sf, and the parcel to the south at 4408 Han1line with a frontage of132 ft and an areaof39,204 sf, are vestiges of the original residential development of the area. They were passed over when the surrounding contemporary homes on Amble Road, Nursery Hill Lane, and Nursery Hill Court were developed. Parcels like these, and another nearby set of parcels just to the south on Han1line, were typically passed over as contemporary development occurred for one of two reasons. First, because of physical conditions, slope, wet or low lands, or an irregular shape created by edge conditions (either natural or orientation to a roadway) they just weren't worth the effort to develop. Second, the owner of the property, for reasons of timing, the desire to retain a large homesite, or a decision not to cooperate or come to terms with the adjacent owner, or some other personal preference or condition, chose not to participate as more intense development occurred around them. The property at 4420, along with its immediate neighbors, have lots two to three times larger than now is required by the Code for a single fan1ily home, and with older style homes than their other neighbors, are legacies of an earlier development pattern. e Analvsis The Conditions required for a Variance are found in Section 8. Administration and Procedures, 4. Variances, c. and d. in the Code. They basically require: I. The conditions present on the property create a hardship in meeting the standards of the Code and prohibit, rather than make inconvenient or expensive, reasonable development without the requested variance. 2. The conditions on the property that create the hardship are not present on other similarly sized lots in the same district. 3. The relationships with abutting property will not be adversely affected by granting the vanance. The large lot represented by 4420 Han1line was retained during surrounding development by the choice of its owner. There are no physical conditions, slope, wet or low land, orientation to the roadway, that would have prevented its participation in the adjacent development. Continuing the established and traditional larger lot status of this property represents a reasonable and productive use of the property. While the additional income that would be gained from the division and sale Parcel B would be welcome to the present owner, and the opportunity for a new home in Arden Hills a a benefit, the continued use of this site as a single fan1ily home represents a reasonable development ...