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-3- • 1 5. There were- no objections to the proposal raised either before or during either 2 hearing on the proposal and, in fact, at least seven of the adjacent business 3 owners had written letters (_attached) urging the City to grant the variances 4 for the proposed improvements . 5 6 Before a vote was taken, Commissioner Bowerman indicated he perceived the motion 7 had addressed all the conditions which are required by statute to be met before 8 the variances can be granted. 9 10 Motion carried unanimously. 11 12 At 8:05 P.M. the Chair Pro Tem opened the hearing to consider the petition from 13 Bernard Blanske for preliminary plat approval for .76 acres of land located at 1.4 the southeast corner of Silver Lake Road and Silver Lane which would allow the 15 property owner to construct 8 townhouses on the site which had been rezoned for 16 that purpose in November, 1985. 17 18 The notice of the hearing which had been published in the July 2nd Bulletin and 19 mailed to all property owners of record within 350 feet of the subject parcel 20 was read by the Chair Pro Tem. No one present reported failure to receive the 21 notice or objected to its content and the City Manager said he had received no 22 calls related to the proposed platting . 23 24 In his July 3rd memorandum, Mr. Childs had advised the Commissioners that con- 25 struction would start after the preliminary plat approval- is given and a final 26 plat would be submitted for approval only after the foundations are in place and • 27 surveyed. 28 29 The Manager had included in the agenda packet a copy of the Commission's November 30 19, 1985 minutes reporting their recommendation that the parcel be rezoned for 31 townhouses as well as the certification of the surveyors which had indicated the 32 parcel in question contained 31 ,919 square feet, which Commissioner Werenicz 33 pointed out was 81 square feet less than the- ordinance would require for 8 34 townhouses. Mr. Blanske speculated that might have been the amount of land he 35 had donated fifteen years ago to the City for a right turn off Silver Lake Road 36 "on the condition it would not later create a •problem for me to develop the rest 37 of the parcel ". 38 39 While Mr. Childs was researching the plans which had been submitted when the 40 property had been rezoned, Mr. Blanske told Chair Pro Tem Wagner that he perceived t 41 it would be up to the utility company to 'bury the overhead lines in that area just 42 as they-had been doing for other projects near him. The developer told Commissioner 43 Madden he would be developing the property for resale and not rental and it would 44 be up to each individual homeowner to maintain the land he was donating for a 45 backyard behind each unit, or to have the maintenance provided by a homeowners i 46 association if that was the way they wanted to go. Mr. Blanske also indicated 47 he had given the carpenter- who had remodeled the home adjacent to his property on 48 Silver Lane about three feet of land from Outlot A for a better sideyard setback. 49 The elevations of the subject parcel were indicated on the plans the Manager 50 returned with which Mr. Childs said showed the same outside dimensions as the 51 current survey but a total area of 33,132 for the parcel at -the time the property • 52 was rezoned for townhouses the previous fall . The Manager told the Commissioners i 53 he perceived that under the Subdivision Ordinance, the City Council could approve 54 the preliminary plat with an. 81 foot density variance just as had •been done various 55 times in the past 'wher.e a compromise had been reached with the developer to trans- 56 f er land between parcels to provide more buildable lots.