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RCA Attachment A REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION Date: September 28, 2020 ItemNo.: Department Approval City Manager Approval Item Description:Consideranordinanceamending Title 10, Zoning, andTitle 11, Subdivisions, to regulate subdivision proposals that would locate a new street adjacent to the rear boundaries of existing parcels (PROJ-0042) 1 2 B ACKGROUND 3 The Roseville Planning Commission and City Council recently took actions to deny a development 4 proposal seeking approvals of a comprehensive plan change, rezoning, and preliminary plat. 5 Importantly, the denial was principally based on findings that the requested comprehensive plan change 6 could not be supported and, having denied the comprehensive plan change, it was necessary to deny the 7 proposed rezoning and preliminary plat for not being consistent with the (unchanged) comprehensive 8 plan. Although the Planning Commission and City Council focused primarily on the comprehensive plan 9 change, members of the public, the Planning Commission, and the City Council expressed concerns 10 about the location of a proposed private street serving several of the new residential lots in the proposed 11 plat. Specifically, the private street was shown along the eastern boundary of the plat, very near to the 12 rear boundaries of existing residential parcels, turning those existing residential lots into something 13 resemblingwhat is defined in Roseville’s zoning code as a Through Lot: 14 A lot having a pair of opposite lot lines along, and access to, 2 more or less parallel public 15 streets, and which is not a corner lot. On a through lot, both street lines shall be deemed 16 front lot lines. 17 If the plat had been approved, the existing parcels would not have technically become through lots, by 18 virtue of the fact that the proposed street was not a public street. Nevertheless, the concerns about the 19 location of the private street centered on its potentially adverse impacts on the adjacent homeowners’ 20 feelings of privacy in the private space of their backyards. Because of these concerns, the City Council 21 instructed Planning Division staff to quickly bring forward for consideration a subdivision code 22 amendment to preclude plat proposals containing new streets that would cause existing residential 23 parcels to become through lots. 24 History of Through Lots in Roseville 25 Given the short time available to prepare the requested subdivision code amendment, Planning Division 26 staff has not completed an exhaustive review of the history of through lots in Roseville. What follows, 27 though, is something of a timeline of through lots. 28 1888:Todd’s Outlotsplat created several through lots between Fulham Street and St. Stephen Street and 29 between St. Stephen Street and St. Croix Street. Most of these through lots have been incrementally 30 subdivided to locate new homes on both street frontages, including within the past five years. 31 1938:Mid Oaks plat created through lots between and the Aldine Street right-of-way, although this portion 32 of Aldine Street has not yet been constructed. 33 1946:Ridgewood plat created through lots between Aldine Street and the new Ridgewood Lane. PROJ0042_Amdt1_ThroughLots_RCA_20200928 Page 1 of 6 Page 1 of 9