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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES DECEMBER 6, 1994 <br />D. Update on the Jamaca Street Signs <br />Administrator Kueffner reported she will be getting a letter from Washington County <br />indicating that all of the communities involved are going along with the changing from <br />"Jamaca Avenue" to "Jamaica Avenue". When this letter from Washington County is <br />received, a resolution will be submitted for council review. <br />6. PLANNING/LAND USE & ZONING: <br />A. Minor Subdivision: Walsh/Masanz, Lot 6, The Forest <br />M/S/P Johnston/Johnson - to adopt Resolution No. 94-32, A Resolution granting a <br />Minor Subdivision to Victor and Jean Masanz and Louis Walsh. (Motion passed 5-0). <br />B. PUBLIC HEARING: MicroSota Variances & Site Plan Review <br />The public hearing notice was published in the November 25, 1994 Stillwater Gazette <br />and adjacent property owners were notified. <br />Attorney Filla explained one of the reasons this matter was tabled was because at the <br />last meeting Council member Johnson asked the question regarding other variances <br />that need to be dealt with on the site as part of the overall application. In the early 70's <br />an addition was placed on the building. At that time whatever the city's regulations <br />were, any encroachments that were caused by the addition or by the existing building, <br />were effectively grandfathered in. If they existed on the site since the first addition was <br />placed on this property, and we have over the years inspected the site and issued other <br />kinds of permits, the city is not now in a position to require the applicant to go back and <br />eliminate those encroachments. We would now be stopped from requiring that we <br />enforce those provisions of our code. One of the purposes of the inventory of <br />encroachments was to simply identify them on the record, approve them, and by doing <br />that, it places the property in a legal conforming use category. This may indirectly solve <br />a future title problem on the property. <br />M/S/P John/Conlin - to resolve that from earlier construction in the early 1970's, there is <br />no legal reason for denying those variances at this point. The city recognizes the <br />following variances exist on the site: lot size, front setback from property line, maximum <br />area to be covered by impervious surface, parking lot setback from street right-of-way <br />and parking lot setback from residential zone, and the adoption of one acre for two <br />drainfields and grants variances necessary to facilitate them. (Motion passed 5-0). <br />Mayor John opened up the public hearing at 8:16 p.m, in the council chambers <br />There was no one to speak against the variance request. <br />Bill Wacker, 3603 Laverne Avenue N., stated he didn't have a problem with the <br />application. <br />