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RCA Attachment 5 1 c. Request for Approval of a Preliminary Plat of an Existing Parcel as Ten Lots for 2 Single-Family Attached Homes (Twinhomes) (PF23-002) 3 Chair Pribyl opened the public hearing for PF23-002 at approximately 8:00 p.m. and 4 reported on the purpose and process of a public hearing. 5 6 Senior Planner Bryan Lloyd summarized the request as detailed in the staff report 7 dated June 7, 2023. 8 9 Member Aspnes indicated she drove around this parcel and had some concerns about 10 the private drive only because of the amount of snow there was this past year, she 11 wondered where all of the snow will go. 12 13 Mr. Lloyd indicated he did not know the answer but suggested there are large side 14 yards adjacent to Fry Street and maybe the owner would not be able to pile snow in 15 their drainage outlot but is a place where he would put it. Whatever provisions are in 16 the maintenance code, even though it is not a City street it still has similar sorts of 17 requirements for the maintenance and that sort of thing. 18 19 Member Aspnes asked if the units will be rental units or owner-occupied dwellings. 20 21 Mr. Lloyd explained that is not a question staff considers in subdivision requests. A 22 dwelling unit is a dwelling unit, a lot is a lot. In a subdivision like this the separate 23 parcels, the separate lots facilitates separate owners but does not prevent someone 24 from buying one or more of them and renting it rather than occupying it. The 25 transition from doing the development in a single parcel with the ten dwellings, which 26 in his mind would more likely be rentals, proceeding through the plat process like the 27 applicant is doing suggests the intent to sell them and purchased then by either 28 residents or someone who would rent them out. 29 30 Member McGehee explained since the City might require a homeownerÓs association, 31 she has seen homeownersÓ associations that specifically specify that the homes cannot 32 be rented for more than a year and is a condition that the City could apply, if the City 33 is the one requiring the homeownerÓs association. 34 35 Mr. Lloyd explained he was not sure that the City could require some tenancy 36 provisions in a homeownerÓs association. The City can regulate rentals through the 37 CityÓs Rental Registration program of Rental Licensing program, but he did not 38 believe that the City has the ability to prohibit them. 39 40 Member McGehee indicated she was probably going to object to this on the basis of 41 traffic because there is the dense neighborhood that is very much landlocked, 42 particularly with the changes now on Snelling and only two exits coming out onto 43 Fairview. She thought both exits were very dangerous for access to this 44 neighborhood. The other thing is the City just added approximately four hundred 45 units just across from this and this is one of the parks that is expected to take some of 46 the influx of new people in the community. This particular park seems to her to be an 47 ideal space to add a little land rather than add more houses in an area that already has 48 a severe traffic access and exit problem and is quite a densely populated area now. 49 Page 7 of 10