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Page 2 Planning and Zoning, June 20, 1979 The next item was a variance for Kenneth Skoglund, 7481 Lake Drive, to build a garage five feet from the lot line. This was a one acre lot. Mr. Skoglund was present and presented a drawing of the proposed garage location. He has a lot of trees on his lot and rather than cut them down to put in the garage, he would like to build in the location close to the back lot line. The applying ordinances were consulted; the rear setback requirement is 20 percent of the depth of the lot (about 40 feet) and the garage must be 20 feet behind the dwelling. There was a problem with meeting these requirements as the 40 -foot setback requirement plus the 30 -foot garage put the location at 70 feet from the back lot line, which was where the house was. There is also, then, no room for the 20 -foot allowance between the house and garage, as required. Mr. Johnson moved that the building inspector contact Mr. Skoglund and look at the property with respect to the size of the building and the setbacks and make a recommendation to the Planning and Zoning Commission at the next meeting. Mr. Doocey seconded the motion. All were in favor. Motion declared passed. The next item was a variance request by Mr. Brian Wendland, not present. Mr. Wendland wanted to split a piece of property into two parcels, A and B (directly in half). A survey had been done and presented to the Commission. Both lots were in excess of one acre. Frontage for lot A is on Leonard Avenue and frontage for lot B is on Sunset Avenue. This was in accordance with the policy established by past actions. Mr. Johnson moved to recommend approval of this variance on lot 2, block 7, Sunset Oaks. Vi Schwankl seconded the motion. All were in favor. Motion declared passed. Next on the agenda was El Rehbein and Son's rezoning application for Reshanau Estates. This would be for outlot H, the east 200 feet of outlot J and part of outlot K, in Lakes Addition II. Mr. Blackbird was present. Letters from the Centerville Fire Department, Core of Engineers, and the Department of Natural Resources were available. Mr. Blackbird felt the project conformed in all aspects except the critical ones of being in an area that is not zoned for multifamily housing and the idea of its not not being acceptable to the local residents. One unit, 36A or another one,would have to be deleted because a pond is required there. He also presented a density concept for this project which would consider all of Lakes Addition II. The figures on this were not yet available. There would be a total of 250 homes on that side of the lake within an estimated 160 acres. He also brought up that structural improvements on the overall acreage did not exceed 35 percent (approximately 64-65 percent clear area). Mr. Johnson brought up a motion made by Mr. McLean at a Council meeting recently, which in effect he felt called for a moratorium on all rezoning until the Comprehen- sive Plan was done. He felt that the intent of the motion was to insure that changes were not made piecemeal; that no major changes were made in regard to the guidelines as set down in the Comprehensive Plan until after the new plan was fin- ished; and that in essence no changes would be made in ordinances. The excerpt from the minutes in question was read by Mr. Johnson. Mr. Gourley felt that the purpose of the motion was to not deal with any major changes to the Comprehensive Plan or any related ordinances until the Planning and Zoning Commission completed, and was able to present, them all at one time. The Comprehensive Plan presently allows for multifamily housing, but not specifically in this area because the sewer in this area was not foreseen at that time; the interceptor trunk line was going to come up Highway 8 and run north, which would indicate development would be along Highway 8. Since then, Metro Council had revised this and the only existing sewer line in the city now ran along Birch Street. Multifamily housing