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Item No: 5B <br />Meeting Date: September 7, 2005 <br />Type of Business: Commission Business <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br /> <br />To: Mounds View Planning Commission <br />From: Jim Ericson, Community Development Director <br />Item Title/Subject: Consideration of a Minor Subdivision of 7851 Spring <br />Lake Road; Planning Case MI2005-005 <br /> <br />Introduction: <br /> <br />Donald Olson has requested approval to subdivide the lot located at 7851 Spring Lake Road. <br />As proposed, the subdivision would split off the rear 255 feet of 7851 Spring Lake Road, <br />creating a land-locked lot. Mr. Olson resides at 2933 Oakwood Drive, directly south of the <br />proposed new lot, and would like the new lot added to his Oakwood Drive parcel to provide <br />more backyard space. <br /> <br />The proposed subdivision is in the form of a Registered Land Survey, which is slightly more <br />involved that a simple Certificate of Survey. In this case, there are four tracts of land created by <br />the subdivision. Tract A runs the length of 7851 Spring Lake Road and ranges in width from 7 <br />feet to 16 feet; it would be deeded to the owner of 7865 Spring Lake Road. Tract B is an eight <br />foot wide strip along the front of 7851 Spring Lake Road; this wood be deeded to the City as <br />Right of Way. Tract C is the improved remainder of 7851 Spring Lake Road while Tract D <br />would be the unimproved remainder of the lot, to be added to 2933 Oakwood Drive. <br /> <br />Discussion: <br /> <br />The property at 7851 Spring Lake Road is presently 42,253 square feet, or 0.97 acres. The lot <br />is zoned R-1, Single Family Residential and is designated as low-density residential on the <br />Comprehensive Plan’s Future Land Use Map. A minor subdivision of this lot would be <br />consistent with the Zoning Code, Subdivision regulations (with conditions) and the <br />Comprehensive Plan. The resulting areas of the proposed tracts are as follows: <br /> <br />Tract Proposed Use Area (Sq Ft / Acres) <br /> A To be deeded to 7865 Spring Lake Road 5,526 / 0.13 <br /> B To be deeded to City for right of way 730.4 / 0.02 <br /> C Remainder of 7851 Spring Lake Road 14,809 / 0.34 <br /> D To be added to 2933 Oakwood Drive 19,139 / 0.44 <br /> <br />Zoning Requirements <br /> <br />While the new lot to be created with this subdivision (Tract D) would exceed the minimum area <br />requirement for a buildable lot, it is not considered “buildable” as it would not front an improved <br />street. There is right of way that extends up to the proposed Tract D, however this is a 25-foot <br />wide platted emergency vehicle access to the Knollwood Green Townhome Community on <br />County Road 10 and was never intended as anything but emergency vehicle access. Approval <br />of the subdivision would be contingent upon Tract D being added to 2933 Oakwood Drive along <br />with a deed restriction acknowledging it cannot be developed as a single family home site.