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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes September 20, 2005 Page 5 1 Commissioner Jensen accepted the friendly amendment. 2 Motion carried unanimously 3 4 5 7.3 R-2 Rezonin Re uest for 3645 Chelmsford Road 6 7 8 Chair Stromgren opened the public hearing at 7:26 p.m. 9 10 Ms. Moore-Sykes stated that the applicant,Troy Martenson, is not present and asked the o table this discussion until the applicant arrives or would they 11 Commission if they would prefer t 12 prefer to move forward with the report. 13 14 The Commission agreed to move forward with the report. 15 16 Ms. Moore-Sykes proved the Commission with a brief overview of the request stating that Staff 17 is asking the Planning Commission to consider a request by Troy Martenson, owner of 3645 18 Chelmsford Road to rezone the property from RSingle-Family zoned R-Dl lwitht t existing o 19 Family Zoning District. She stated that the property 20 single-family structure on the lot. She noted that it is a comer lot with a 75-foot utility easement 21 given to Xcel Energy that goes across the northern portion of the lot. She stated that the property 22 adjacent to the east is zoned R-2 and the properties de been several attempts to spltly across 37th Avenue to it this lot bue north tt 23 the property are zoned R-4. She stated that there have 24 because of the utility easement,the requests have either been denied by the City or upon 25 discovering the easement, the petitioners cancelled their applications. She stated that the current 26 owner also went before the City Council at its June 21,2005 meeting with a petition for an R-3 27 Townhouse Zoning District rezoning request adding that Council denied the request due to 28 concerns about spot zoning. She stated that Mr. Martenson is now proposing to submit a 29 rezoning request that would change the current zoning of R-1 to R-2 and presented his concept to .30 the Planning Commission at a concept review at the July 19, 2005 meeting. She noted that the 31 property adjacent to the subject property is currently zoned R-2, despite its current structure 32 being used as asingle-family residence. She explainedbuiistrict requires lding setback line 33 a corner lot have an area of 14,000 square feet and 100 feet in wilt at the ilding 34 and based on two different sources, staff has varying information about the square footage othat the 35 subject lot. She stated that to plat map that the City receives from Hennepin County eb site shows 36 to lot is 23,540 square feet,while the information from to Hennepin County 37 to lot is 19,260 square feet. She stated that an enclosed copy of a survey of the lot shows an 18- 38 foot by 220-foot roadway easement that accounts for the discrepancy in to square footages 39 adding that this lot conforms with to area and width as required by the City,s Zoning Ordinance 40 for an R-2 designation. She noted that a letter from Xcel Energy he easement as long with it doeplic tion 41 that states that they are comfortable with a driveway over t 42 disrupt to easement too much. 43 44 Chair Stromgren suggested closely the public hearing since to applicant is not present to address 45 this request.