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4 MEMORANDUM TO: Planning and Zoning Board FROM: John Miller, City Planner DATE: September 3 , 1987 SUBJECT: Minor Subdivision for Helen Minor Application * 87-24 BACKGROUND: Helen Minor owns a 15 acre parcel on Ash Street , (County Road J) in the southern part of the city. Mrs. Minor' s daughter owns the adjacent five acres immediately east of the 15 acre parcel . The applicant wishes to sell five acres to her daughter, leaving each of them with ten acres . ZONING: The land is located in the city' s "R" rural district . The minimum lot size is ten acres with 330 feet of road frontage. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: The land owned by Mrs. Minor and her daughter is shown as rural in the Lino Lakes comprehensive plan amendment. UTILITIES: There are currently no plans to extend utilities to this area. Ron Stahlberg, the city engineer has stated that it " . . . will be several years before sewer becomes available. " The land is outside the 1990 MUSA boundary. DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS : The five acre parcel proposed to be split from the 15 acre property does not meet the minimum lot requirements of the "R" rural district . In addition (and as the attached aerial photo shows) much of the five acres to be split is unbuildable because of water and soil problems . "IN All of this really makes little difference. The applicant ' s daughter presently owns a home on her five acres and intends fit ` to combine the two parcels . By doing this she will have a conforming lot and will be able to pay homestead property tax on her full ten acres . PROFESSIONAL OPINION: Lino Lakes should approve the Minor subdivision requested by Mrs . Minor creating one ten and one five acre parcel . This action will turn a situation where there is one conforming and one non-conforming rural lot to a situation where there are two conforming lots .