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PLANNING REPORT DATE: CASE NUMBER: APPLICANT: LOCATION: ACTION REQUESTED: PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS: • 6 January 1988 1816 Norm Vinnes West Side of Oxford Between County Road C-2 and Judith Avenue (see sketch) Division of Existing Platted Lot W 1. The Vinnes' property (Lot 15 of Block 1 in Roseville Heights) has 132 feet of frontage on Oxford Street. The depth is 132.99. As you will note from the copy of a portion of Roseville's section map, the single-family lots in this vicinity vary from 79.4 feet (on the south side) to 88 feet (on the north side). Lots across the street are mostly 83.5 feet in width. 2. Mr. Vinnes proposes to divide his existing single-family lot into two lots, the southerly most lot will have a frontage of 67 feet and the northerly most lot will have a width of 65 feet. The existing home will occupy the southerly most lot with a setback on the north side of 7.8 feet. The side yard setback required in this portion of the City is 5 feet since these properties were platted prior to May 1959 (when the new ordinances were enacted). 3. As you know, it is the City's policy to consider lot divisions less than the normal 85 feet that is required for interior lots if such lots are reasonably in scale with the neighborhood. Here, of course, a proposed 65 foot lot is smaller than the lots in the immediate area. The 65 foot lot proposed is 23 percent less than the 85 :feet required. However, the existing 132 foot lot is 55 percent larger than the 85 foot required. Thus, it would seem that a case could be made noting that the retention of the existing lot as is produces an ovary ized proportion greater than the ratio of the undersized proportion. Stating it another way, the lot is more out of scale with the existing neighborhood from a percentage standpoint than the lot division proposal.