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