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5 intensive development to accommodate road frontage and utility placement needs for adjacent parcels which may develop simultaneously or later. I must express concern too about an attempted suggestion that the variance will not involve development on the lot within 12 months and, for that reason, should be denied. It is natural, necessary and reasonable to expect that the construction of the house will follow the eventual placement of a roadway and utilities in the intensive adjacent development. This lot and the small house which will go upon it will serve as a good buffer to that area. Since the Northstar 2nd Addition construction may very well occur within 12 months. However, even if it didn’t, this proposal has the effect of extending City water and sewer to a subdivided parcel which was created at the approval of the City without road frontage. Whether it actually gets built upon within six months or thirteen months, for example, it is of no practical effect. It nevertheless leads to the resolution of proper development at this preexisting, lawful lot. Second, there is some statement in the Staff Report that the City Engineer’s memo “recommends” denial of the variances. Stated differently, because the creation of the lot without adequate road frontage is now poised to be cured, conditions associated with temporary offsite drainage easements and the provision of a road are addressed simply by requiring them as part of this development and the adjacent Northstar subdivision. In other words, it is not at all uncommon that adjacent subdivisions need to coordinate with an adjacent property, it is only notable here because the Chavez property is comparatively much smaller than the intense development going on next door. We will submit a stormwater management plan, we will show all drainage and utility easements on the plans, we will provide areas of impervious surface, and offsite grading/construction easements for temporary uses can be imposed and coordinated with the development of the intensive development adjacent to it-Northstar 2. Examples of pre-existing lots where homes were built are illustrated in the map provided in this packet. All of those homes were built in the 70’s, 80’s and even early 90’s. Depictions of these homes are shown in Exhibit B. The parcel for which we seek variance approvals to build was created in 1980. The property was confirmed by deed on January 16, 1980 and the conveyance specifically confirmed as ”entitled to recording and subdividing” by the City of Lake Elmo (See Exhibit A1 – Stamp bearing approval on deed). Because parcel property is a pre-existing of record and it would not be reasonable or lawful for it to be denied all variances necessary to allow it to be reasonably built upon in the future