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a i <br />'.~., <br />CASE STUDY NUMBER 1 <br />Suburban Residential Lot Size Variance <br />Background: <br />Your city is-a developing, third tier suburban community. Your comprehensive plan <br />is eight years old. It includes ahousing-element that contains a number ofgoals <br />related to providing opportunities. for affordable housing and supports flexibility in <br />the. city's zoning standards for appropriate projects that promise to provide such <br />opportunities. <br />The application before you is for preliminary and final plat approval fora 130 lot <br />single family subdivision. The land is zoned R-1 Single Family Residential. The <br />muumum lot size in R-1 is 15,000 square feet. <br />In addition. to the subdivision approval, the application also requests variances to the <br />i~nimum lot size for 65 of the lots. The smaller lots range from 12,000 square feet <br />down to a minimum of 10,000 square feet. You have reviewed information <br />submitted by the developer and have visited other developments that they have built <br />and -you. believe that these variances will, in fact, serve to provide some reduced <br />cost in these lots. . <br />Recommendation: <br />Findings: <br />HYPOTHETICAL CASE STUDIES PAGE Z <br />