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PLANNING REPORT DATE: 1 March 1989 CASE NUMBER: APPLICANT• Eugene Ronald Shultz LOCATION: West Side of Victoria Street, Between Millwood and Brenner (see sketch) ACTION REQUESTED: Subdivision of Platted Lot PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS: 1. Attached is a section map showing the location of the subject property in the City of Roseville. The two lots proposed for division are shown in gray shading. Excluding the corner lots, there are eleven lots between Millwood and Brenner on the west side of Victoria Street. Most of the lots are 100 feet in width, though the northerly four lots are 110 feet, 120 feet, 90 feet, and 93.38 feet. The two lots in question are 50 feet and 150 feet. 2. There is one existing house located approximately in the middle of the 150-foot lot. There is no house on the 50-foot lot. The applicant proposes to divide the two lots into three lots. The south 60 feet would be one lot (adding 10 feet to the existing 50-foot lot), the north 75 feet would be the second lot, and the remaining 65 feet would be the third lot. These dimensions are shown on the attached plan prepargd by the applicant showing the existing and proposed lot lines and the location of the existing and proposed homes. 3. The applicant: is a builder and proposes to build a new house on the newly created lot (south 60 feet) and a house on the second newly created lot (north 75 feet). Copies of the proposed plans to be built are attached. 4. Obviously, if the existing home were not located as it is, it would be easy to convert the two existing lots of 50 and 150 feet into two 100 foot lots. However, a lot line through the middle of the house would result and, therefore, is not a logical answer. 5. The 50-foot lot appears to be a legally nonconforming lot. When the new zoning ordinance, establishing the R-1 Zone and the 85-foot lot as standard, was adopted in 1959, it included a provision that any existing lot meeting 70 percent of the new standards would be considered a buildable lot. Thus, a lot 70 percent of 85 feet (59.5 feet) would be considered buildable, and a building permit could be issued by the Building Inspector. However, a lot smaller than that would require a variance to the 70 percent standard. 6. In this case, the applicant would have the right to apply for a variance for the 50-foot lot. A logical question on the part of the City with respect to such a variance would be -- Can the lot be made larger? The answer in this case is that the lot can be made 10 feet larger