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PUBLIC HEARING VN-135 December 10, 1974 8:05 P.M. Request: Variance from Section 10-010 (f) to allow creation of lot with less than 75' width and variance from Section 10-010 (e) to divide. lot leaving existing house with less than required 5' sideyard setback. Applicant: Cecil Norberg Location: 2$80 Mississippi Street (northwest quadrant of Mississippi Street anc~ Leona Drive) Discussion• The applicant owns a large lot at the above location which is approximately twice the size of a minimum sized single family lot as required by the Zoning Code. The applicant wishes to divide his property into two lots and will be requesting the Council to approve a minor subdivision for this purpose. The proposed division is shown on the attached surveys. The proposed division violates two Zoning. Code requirements and for this reason a variance will have to be approved before the division can be approved. The first deviation from Code is that the corner lot would not have the 75' width required by Section 10-010 (f). While the total property has sufficient width that it could have been subdivided into two lots of adequate size, an additional 9' street easement was taken for Leona Drive leaving only about 66' of width for the corner lot. The second aspect of the variance is that the land division, as proposed, would leave the existing house without the 5' side yard setback required by Section 10-010(e). The need for this variance (or a variance on width) would have .existed in any case and is not the result of the additional 9' easement on Leona Drive. We see two alternatives with regard to this second part of the variance. Either the division line could be moved farther to the east to give the existing house adequate setback and the corner lot less width, or a covenant could be required on the deed limitng any house constructed on the corner lot to not less than a 10' setback from the existing house. If the potential 1.3' reduction in the distance between the two houses. is not of concern, the variance could be approved as requested.