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s An Alternate Plan for the Disposition of the Back Comer of Lot #1 In dividing up my original square lot, it was inevitable that one lot would end up with the back corner of, say, 100'X100' which would never have any sort of viability as a separate lot due to lack of frontage. In my platting of Lots 2 and 3, I determined their depth so as to leave the Cleveland frontage of my remaining lot as 1701, which would leave open the possibility of splitting this into two 85' lots at some future date. In dividing Lot 1, earlier this month, I followed what seemed like the obvious step of keeping the back 100' X 100' with Parcel B, the lot on Eldridge. However, in trying to put a price to this lot, I realized that its area was thus inflated to a rather impractical 26,255 sq. ft., and any realistic price became prohibitive. Given the 75' deep tongue to Eldridge and the rather shallow depth of the Eldridge sewer, any builder on the Eldridge lot will want to keep his house as far South as possible, thus rendering the excessive back area rather pointless, unless he were interested in a swimming pool or a tennis court. So I finally came to the realization that I was more or less throwing away this back corner, which is valuable to me. I heard it mentioned that after a lot division, adjustments to the actual back line might be reached by some sort of administrative action, so long as the front of the lot was a viable lot. So I let the original Lot Division complete itself. I now see a much wiser way of dividing the lot, which simply involves my keeping that back corner as part of my own lot (Parcel A). This would cut the front lot (Parcel B) down to a manageable size with a more reasonable selling price. This lot would now be 100' wide and 130' deep (not counting the inevitable but rather useless front tongue of land 43' X75') which makes it a lot size exactly comparable with Lots 2 & 3 beside it. The extra 100'X100' back corner might at first seem to be an ungainly addition to the otherwise conservative shape of Parcel A (1701X2001). But on thinking it through more carefully, I can find many advantages of retaining this back corner: 1. I made use of a preexisting greenhouse foundation to create the most Easterly portion of my very extensive driveway. This extension has been used for maneuvering room for 2 trailer and for access by neighbors to their otherwise inaccessible back lawns (for delivery of black dirt or for trucking away cut down trees) This foundation is located completely within that back corner of 100' X 100', so if I retained this area, I wouldn't have to disturb this existing useful driveway.