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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1979 05-09 Setback too narrow, lot division turned down REVIEW .3 e TppCk tO narrow, lot division By MELANIE WAAGE turned the city about the loss down S\ An application requesting to home were to be builtonthe split lot. than hThe san only ordinance. Q` divide one lot into o denied bytheAbdel Azizrto Maplewood City Council was at its home seven feet omdthe property line on requires two readings s whileence between the the new Procedures will be that an ordinance �,� Maeting. Abdel R. May the south,instead of the original five feet. requires only one.This change ween council Stillwater bAbdel Aziz, 2502 This would save two large trees.Also, he two to three weeks a resolution 4) the Rd., Maplewood, was making suggested removingonlycould save request,plus he wanted approval of a the treesgthat meetings for the applicant and would save rear yard setback variance and a garage would be in the way of the moved garage time on council agendas. If the council deration,the setback variance.The lot presently and saving other trees that would be in feels time is needed for single dwelling and a garage eon if,has a front of the house. eeting. Abdel move thegarage Councilman Don item can always be tabled aunt l a later thought the lot could be divided and still mNo one spoke against the change, to the firstlAzizlot,wanted to toho residence.etThe meet h city code. said he garage would have had only an eight-foot setback from Sterling Street. Maplewood f "I don't think we should restrict council voted in favor approved for it so the • cityekrequires Ste a 30-foot setback lewoom a from using their property for building." The councilrt be locatedcd a bid for a double right-of-way.coderequ AbdelP Y g' tennis Thet contracto foat Ia ecst Aziz also Greavu moved to deny the motion, and it-of- a . Aydel setback soiance Norm Anderson seconded. The motion awardedafor asphalt was N�1 Again,requestingcity acrede rd a depth of i20s passed 3 to 2, to andT. A.the ontra in foruamount cent of the total lot requiresque .Abdel Aziz would Earl Nelson and Don per Wingert voting against. of $10,351, contract fencing r `, cent a variance of r28e feet. After a requestwas awarded ton l set ayclone Fencing ect "I don't feel there is enough room to by the Maplewood city $5,317. The council seta total council, the city staff developed move a car in and out of there," Procedure to speed up theprocessingP a budget at $17,930.90. Project movn a a r naid. `°Ireofl Mayor for development applicat oThe staff The included the will work." Y don t think it recommended that the council fencing and asphalt, $1,762.50 for color coating and $500frfor the miscellaneous. This Residents living near the lot had written rezoning applications and amendmtprocess will Improvement eabudg 1979 Park Capital the zoning ordinance as resolutions rather HECObudget. THE COUNCIL ALSO APPROVED a ■ bid for lights at Goodrich Park. L.P.D. . Electric was awarded the bid for$46,890 The council set a project budget of$50,090. IN NEW BUSINESS, attorney Michael DeCourcy, representing Robert Hulke, 1820 White Bear Ave., appeared before the council to voice his client's position about an unfair zoning situation. Hulke owns a piece of property which is zoned residential located next to Hejny Rental's at 1829 White Bear Ave. Hejny operates a multi-use rental agency. Hulke,DeCourcy said,believes the zoning situation is unfair to himself and other property owners adjacent to the Hejny Property. -$:*a y "This concerns a conditional variance Hejny received some 25 years ago," DeCourcy said."He has just been allowed to operate his business with no recourse. Yet, other neighbors can't get any rezoning of their properties to operate businesses. "The two suggestions I would make to the council would be to either give con- sideration to the neighbors to rezone to business commercial, or make all the properties along the block residential." COUNCILMAN NORM Anderson told the council he had drafted two letters to circulate in the area to determine who wants residential and who wants com- mercial. He had not done so by meeting time. "The problem is we never had the chance to tell them how else to operate," councilman Don Wiegert said."If there is a specific problem in how they are operating, we would want to know." No action was taken on the matter, but the council urged Anderson to circulate the two letters,and they would take up the matter again. IN OTHER BUSINESS the council looked at a staff report concerned with a fire station being constructed on lower Afton Road and Londin Lane. The East County Line Fire Department has urged the city to provide funding for the con- struction of a fire station identical with the one constructed at County Road C and Hazelwood. "We can improve our response time 10 minutes if we have this new facility," dispatcher Duane Williams told the council. "With a person having a heart attack, we can improve the breathing time by four to five minutes,which is very crucial. "We have found about six persons in- terested in joining the department.We've gone house to house to get applicants and the citizens are very interested." The East County Line Fire Department indicated that if necessary, they will support a referendum for general obligation bonds for this facility. The estimated cost would be about $350,000. Councilman Wiegert said other means of financing should be looked into. The matter was tabled, and referred to the city staff for study. HARRY ZACHO appeared before the council to attempt to have sewer assessments on property on Lakewood Drive dismissed. His argument to the council was the property was assessed before he bought the property. The original assessment was made in 1960. It was then deferred until 1971. Zacho said that when the matter then came before 1 the council,in 1971,he was never notified. The area he is disputing the assessment for is 20 feet of Lakewood Drive frontage. It is swamp land and unusable for building. r