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-4- 1 The hearing was closed at 8:20 P.M. 2 3 Commissioner Hansen indicated he had no problems with the requested lot split 4 since the resultant lots appeared to meet all the City ordinance requirements. 5 The Commissioner said he perceived some of the neighbors concerns were valid ones 6 but were not ones which should affect the Commission's approval decision. He 7 indicated he perceived there were many different ways in which the lots could 8 be developed and the Commission should not therefore be involved in the specifics 9 of what kind of house or driveway should be built, which could be handled when 10 the building permit is issued. 11 12 The Chair commented that she perceived some stipulation regarding the siting of 13 the driveway for safety reasons as long as it didn't foreclose_ the option of an 14 exit off Old Highway 8 would not be out of order. Mr. Stafford indicated he 15 would have no problem with placing the driveway on the north side of the lot. 16 17 Motion by ;Commiss,i!oner-Wagnerrandcseconded"bYvCommiasi.oner Hansen to recommend 18 Council approval of the subdivision without platting of the property at 2911 19 Rankin Road N.E. generally described as portions of Lots 19 and 20, Auditor' s 20 Subdivision #377, Hennepin County, as requested by Robert and Beverly Stafford, 21 3916 Penrod Lane, for the development of two residential lots, with the stipula- 2 2 tion that, if the driveway for Lot 20 is built to exit off Rankin, as a safety 23 measure, it should be constructed on the Lot 19 side of the property away from 24 the Rankin turnaround. 25 26 In recommending the lot split approval , the Planning Commission finds that: 27 28 1 . The subdivision as proposed would result in two buildable lots which meet 29 all City ordinance requirements related to size and setbacks; and 30 31 2. There were no objections expressed to the lot split per se, but only concerns 32 about the use of the property which the Commission perceived were matters 33 better settled with mutual agreements between the owners and their neighbors. 34 35 Motion carried unanimously. 36 37 The meeting was recessed at 8:27 P.M. and reconvened at 8:30 P.M. -for an informal 38 discussion prior to the hearing to consider the request from the META Partnership 39 for variances related to the redevelopment of the former American Legion building ! 40 at 2701 and the vacant gas station building at 2709 Kenzie Terrace into a pro- 41 posed commercial facility. In the absence of representation of the applicant, 42 the Manager reported the request as it had been made when the applicant had come 43 in to make their applications. 44 45 Mr. Childs reiterated. some of the information he had included in his April 11th 46 memorandum to the Commissioners including the fact that the discovery that the 47 site dimensions were much smaller than had originally been assumed. When he 48 received the new drawings for the project, Friday, Mr. Childs said, he noticed 49 the parking spaces had been reduced to 42 from the 48 the Commission had approved 50 December 2nd and when he finally got in touch with the architect Monday, the 5 1 Manager learned that with the loss of land on the west side, and with the 52 addition of a little more landscaping, it had been necessary to cut out six . 53 parking spaces from the project. The applicants also request that the five foot 54 sideyard and 10 foot front yard setbacks required for parking by the ordinance 55 be waived so vehicles could be parked right up the property lines as with the 56 former tenants.