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fR' i . • CITY OF ST. ANTHONY PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES September 17, 1985 1 The meeting was called to order at 7:30 P.M. by Chair Franzese. 2 3 Present for roll call : Franzese, Hansen, Bjorklund, Wagner, Madden, and Jones. 4 5 Absent: Bowerman. 6 7 Also present: David Childs, City Manager. 8 9 During the consideration of the August 20th minutes, Commissioner Madden reported 10 he had been gratified to see the sign on the truck/trailer advertising the mini- 11 warehouse facilities about which he had restated his concern at the August meeting, 12 had been painted over during the weekend. 13 14 Motion by Commission Madden and seconded by Commissioner Hansen to approve as 15 submitted the minutes of the Planning Commission meeting held August 20, 1985. 16 17 Motion carried unanimously. 18 • 19 Commissioner Bjorklund said he would be willing to report the- minutes of the Com- 20 mission meeting to the -Council at their September 24th meeting . 21 22 At 7:35 P.M. , the Chair opened the public hearing to consider a request from Dan 23 and Kay Kramer, 4000 Fordham Drive N.E. , to subdivide without platting their exist- 24 ing 124 foot X 133 foot lot so 45 feet could be transferred to the 89 foot X 25 133 foot lot at 4008 Fordham Drive, owned by Arvid Johnson. As indicated on the 26 sketch of both properties, the resulting lots would be 79 feet X 133 feet for the 27 Kramer lot (.,Lot 5) and 134 feet X 133 feet for the new Johnson parcel (Lot 4) . 28 29 The notice of the hearing had been published in the September 3rd Bulletin and 30 mailed to all property owners of record within 350 feet of the subject properties. 31 No one present reported failure to receive the notice or objected to its content 32 and the Manager reported he had received no calls either for or against the split. 33 34 In his September 12th memorandum to the Commission members, Mr. Childs had advised 35 that the two lots which would be created by this split would both meet all codes 36 and the remaining structures would meet all ordinance setback requirements as 37 well . The Manager had also speculated that, Mr. Johnson might sometime in the 38 future, want to split the new parcel so a new home could be constructed on what 39 would then be a subsize parcel . The-resultant lot would probably be only about 40 62 feet wide and 8,624 -square feet..,and wod_l d--requi re-var_.i ances from _the City to-=be 41 built on. Sixty-two foot lots are not unusual in that neighborhood, Mr. Childs 42 said. However, he added,- the McGinn lots had- been 18,000 square feet in size, 43 double what is required by the City Ordinance. • 44 45 Mr. Kramer was present and told Commissioner Madden he had his house up for sale 46 and that he and Mr. Johnson had agreed years ago that the first to sell would give 47 the other the opportunity of buying the other's excess property. Mr. Johnson I I