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RCA Attachment A 34 1949:Oak Point plat created through lots between Heinel Drive and the South Owasso Boulevard right-of- 35 way, but that portion of South Owasso Boulevard was never built and these lots back up to the 36 railroad tracks. 37 1950:Shorewood plat created through lots between Shorewood Lane and Wheeler Street. 38 Early 1950s: Hoffman’s Garden Tracts created through lots between Shryer Avenue and Skillman Avenue, 39 completed with the adjacent 1955 James Third Addition plat. 40 1955:Midway Acres plat created severalthrough lots between South Gluek Lane and County Road B. 41 1956:St. Anthony Plaza plat created through lots between Highway 8 and the newly built Manson Street. 42 1963:Loren Acres No. 1 plat created through lots between Roselawn Avenue and the new Loren Road. 43 McCarrons View Addition plat developed a section of Hand Avenue north of Elmer Street, creating 44 through lots of the several existing residential parcels on the west side of Farrington Street. 45 1996:Rosetown Ridge plat created through lots of three existing dwellings between Overlook Drive and 46 County Road C. 47 2007:Approval of the development of Applewood Pointe at Langton Lake included the requirement to 48 build Langton Lake Drive, providing public access to the adjacent ballfields in Langton Lake Park, 49 thereby creating through lots of the 11 residential units on the south side of Brenner Avenue. 50 The preceding list includes only locations where plattedlots continue to be visible and meet the above 51 definition of “through lots”. But additional through-lot parcels also exist that were created through 52 metes-and-bounds subdivisions, and there have been other locations in which former through lots have 53 been completely subdivided between the abutting streets during the intervening years. Beyond the plats 54 in the preceding list creating through lots, eleven plats created lots that back directly up to major state or 55 county road rights-of-way without having access to those roadways; eight plats created lots that back up 56 directlyto a railroad corridor; three plats create lots similar to through lots, except they are served by 57 private streets; and two plats created corner lots that are surrounded by streets on three sides. These two 58 dozen plats are not included in the preceding list because the lots have one or more characteristics 59 preventing them from meeting the technical definition of “through lots,” such as being situated on a 60 private street, abutting but not having direct access to Highway 36 or other major Ramsey County roads, 61 having adjacency to a railroad track instead of another street, or being a through lot that is also a corner 62 lot. In spite of having characteristics that technically disqualify these lots from being defined as “through 63 lots,” they may suffer similar or greater impacts as through lots that do meet the definition. 64 It should also be noted that the through lots created by most of the plats in the above list of examples 65 were created withinthe plats. If this is a relevant fact, it is because the locationof streets at the front and 66 rear of these new lots likely only affects those individuals buying the through lots, who presumably have 67 a full understanding of what they are buying. Nevertheless, it is clear that plats have been occasionally 68 approved such that new streets have been located at the rear of pre-existing parcelsoutsideof the plats, 69 creating through lots out of parcels that had not formerly been through lots, which gets tothe central 70 matter prompting the current subdivision code amendment. 71 If a lot is believed to be adversely impacted by locating a new street along its rear boundary, the task is 72 to identify the perceived impacts and determine how to mitigate them. The main concern seems to be a 73 loss of backyard privacy with motorists on a new streetthat is too near the rear property line. Clearly, as 74 a street is moved farther and farther away from a rear lotline, its impact on privacydecreases until it 75 becomes negligible. If the impact of a new street can be mitigated by additional distancefrom a rear lot 76 line, what distance is great enough? A house (even one with second story windows) is only required to 77 be 30 feet from a rear lot line to preserve feelings of space and privacy in abutting rear yards.But how 78 close is too close for a street at ground level? Phrased another way, is there a point at which there is PROJ0042_Amdt1_ThroughLots_RCA_20200928 Page 2 of 6 Page 2 of 9