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<br />Memo to Mayor and City Council/AS 00-7 <br />October 16, 2000 <br /> <br />Page 2 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Analvsis <br /> <br />History <br /> <br />In March of 2000, the Elk River City Council approved a zone change and a land <br />use amendment to allow Mr. Madsen to remove his property from the Urban <br />Service District. This approval requires Mr. Madsen to maintain a 2 % acre <br />minimum lot area, should he proceed to subdivide his parcel. <br /> <br />Subdivision Requirements <br /> <br />The proposed subdivision will create a 2.5 acre buildable lot located north of the <br />applicant's home with access onto Proctor Road. The minimum lot width in the <br />R1a (Single Family Residential) zoning district is 160 feet. The new parcel is <br />proposed to have a lot width of 180 feet. As part of the approval process, the <br />applicant will need to grant to the City drainage and utility easements, five feet <br />along the side and ten feet along the rear and front lot lines. The applicant will <br />also need to identify primary and secondary septic locations on the site. <br /> <br />Access <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />As the new parcel will have frontage on County Road No. 77, the applicant or <br />new owner will be required to received an access permit from Sherburne County <br />for a driveway. The County has reviewed the request for an access permit for <br />the new parcel and has denied the request, as the new driveway would not meet <br />the County's spacing requirement. <br /> <br />Mr. Madsen has three options for providing access to the subject parcel: <br /> <br />1. Create a private access easement over his parcel to Parcel A from his <br />driveway; however, it has been the City's past policy to avoid private <br />driveway easements wherever possible (Option A). <br /> <br />2. The parcel division could be reconfigured and Mr. Madsen's driveway <br />relocated to meet the County's 330' spacing. The driveway could then <br />straddle the common property line between both parcels in such a way <br />that they could share one access point, similar to the recently approved <br />administrative subdivision for Marlene Hentges near 213th Avenue (Option <br />B). <br /> <br />3. The City could submit a letter to the County stating that it has no objection <br />to a new driveway on County Road No. 77, at which point the County <br />would then issue the access permit for Parcel A. <br /> <br />It is staff's opinion that the City should not be requesting or objecting to <br />. driveways on County roads. The County has adopted an access policy and <br /> <br />S:\PLANNING\MICHMC\CCREPRTS\ASOO-7.DOC <br />