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Item No: 5C Meeting Date: August 20, 2005 Type of Business: Commission Business City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Mounds View Planning Commission From: Jim Ericson, Community Development Director Item Title/Subject: Consideration of a Minor Subdivision of 2812 Sherwood Drive and 8084 Fairchild Avenue; Planning Case MI2005-004 Introduction: Marlan and Judy Arndt, owners of 8084 Fairchild Avenue and applicants for this request, are proposing a minor subdivision of two lots to create a third lot fronting Fairchild Avenue. The Fairchild lot would be split in half horizontally with land from 2812 Sherwood added to the south lot to provide additional depth. There is an existing house, garage and shed on the Fairchild lot that would need to be removed as part of the subdivision process. In addition, there are two sheds toward the rear of 2812 Sherwood that would also need to be removed. Minor subdivisions are those divisions of land less than two acres in size in which only one additional lot is created. Minor subdivisions do not require a public hearing and in contrast to a major subdivision, a Certificate of Survey rather than a plat is all that is needed to record the change with Ramsey County. Discussion: The property at 8084 Fairchild Avenue is presently 25,700 square feet, or 0.59 acres. The lot is zoned R-1, Single Family Residential and is designated as low-density residential on the Comprehensive Plan’s Future Land Use Map. A minor subdivision of this lot would be consistent with both the Zoning and Comp Plan. The existing Fairchild Avenue lot has 171 feet of frontage on Fairchild Avenue, 21 more feet than the minimum necessary to accommodate a subdivision. Each proposed lot would be 85.5 feet wide. The Certificate of Survey included with this report indicates that the south lot to be created would also have joined to it the south 85.5 feet from the Sherwood Road lot. The resulting square footages, after the subdivision, are as follows: North ½ of 8084 Fairchild (Tract A): 12,828 square feet (0.29 acres) South ½ of 8084 Fairchild: (Tract B): 19,243 square feet (0.44 acres) 2812 Sherwood Road (Tract C): 13,502 square feet (0.31 acres) Zoning Requirements The subject properties are zoned R-1, Single Family Residential. The minimum lot size for an interior (a lot which is not on a corner), single-family lot is 11,000 square feet. As proposed, Tracts A, B and C would all have an area in excess of 11,000 square feet. The minimum lot width for interior lots is 75 feet—at 85.5 feet, the two new lots exceed this width.