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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES JANUARY 2, 1.990 PAGE. 7 ( M/S/P Hunt/Williams - to appoint the Council as a whole to serve as a committee for budget, capital improvement and personnel matters until such time as the vacant Council seat is filled, and we can appoint separate committees for Budget, Capital Improvement and Personnel. (Motion carried 4-0). M/S/P Williams/Graves - to amend the agenda to consider the resolution regarding revoking suspension of Building Permit for Steven and Elizabeth Johnson before Agenda Item B. (Motion carried 4-0). Councilmen Williams and Graves, City Attorney Carlson, met with Mr. & Mrs. Johnson and their attorney to work out an agreement that is satisfactory to both sides. The resolution presented formalized this agreement and allowed Mr. & Mrs. Johnson to continue with construction of their garage. M/S/P Williams/Graves - to adopt Resolution 90-1, Resolution Revoking Suspension of Building Permit #89-254 for Stephen and Elizabeth Johnson at 2.945 Lake Elmo Avenue N. (Motion carried 4-0). Mayor Dunn recognized Scotty Lyall who requested to speak. In relation to the City's legal newspaper Scotty Lyall commented, when he stuffs newspaper boxes with his business advertisements, he does not find many Review papers still in the box, but what he does find is yellowed colored. Press newspapers. Lyall asked for further investigation into this. Scotty requested, Council consideration to begin giving regular peforma.nce appraisals to all employees. Scotty felt the employees deserve that and the Council should --have --these-appraisals-for-their own protection. 8. PLANNING, LAND USE AND ZONING : A. PUBLIC HEARING: Variance to frontage on public street requested by Gerald Dalluge (50th Street) Mayor Dunn opened up the Public Hearing at 8:24 p.m. in the Council chambers. The Public Hearing notice was published and all affected propertyowners were notified. Gerald Dalluge has requested a variance to the required 300 feet of frontage on a public street at 11330 50th Street N. Mr. Dallluge plans on building on the back lot, restricting the house to the north side of the piece of property for privacy reasons. Staff reported they have searched the records and have not been able to find records of any action taken by the City and had checked with Washington County and found the lot split goes back to at least 1974. According to the 1-974 Lake Elmo Municipal Code, staff felt this split was made under those rules. There didn't appear to be much required for a subdivision at that time, however, a 66 foot road easement was recorded through the west side of Tract A. It appeared that there may have been a plan, back in the 1970's for a road to go thru, but no