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Staff REPORT ITEM
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| Narrow lot historic land subdivision pattern [A. Conlon, D. Dooley, N. Ogelman]
| DATE OF MEETING:
| March 25, 2021
| Staff CONTACT(S): | Chair Ogelman
Don Dooley, Director of Planning and Economic Development
Andy Conlon, Senior Planner |
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BACKGROUND:
From: Conlon, Andrew; Thursday, February 11, 2021 12:55 PM
There once was a historic land subdivision pattern that created subdivisions of narrow (typically 25’ wide) lots, which were intended to be bought and developed for single-family detached residential uses. The expectation was a buyer would purchase as many adjoining lots as they desired, and then build a house which would travers/straddle the lots as necessary. Over time, some of these narrow parcels were consolidated, either by the property owner or through action of the Commissioner of Revenue. Many others still exist in our land records as individual legal non-conforming lots of record. Our ZO has a special compensating provision for the development of non-conforming lots of record, in situations where the lot is at least 50’ in width. It is silent on the development of lots less than 50’ in width. The PC would like to consider a Zoning text amendment to address this issue. We also mentioned the development potential of existing lots of record which do not have any public road frontage.
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