Sean C. Morgan
Of The New Era
The Planning Commission approved a nine-lot planned development called Logan Estates at 1510 40th Avenue for Ty Moore of Homes Handcrafted Monday night.
A public hearing on the planned development was continued from January’s meeting to allow the developer time to address concerns raised by the Planning Commission, mainly the number of variances that would be required for the development.
In response, Moore returned with a plan that reduced the number of lots from 10 to nine and changed a duplex to a single-family residence. The changes increased the size of the lots, although variances were still required to allow the lots. The changes also brought all of the lots into compliance with lot coverage regulations.
The Planning Commission included a condition that the outflow for drainage from the development be angled away from a neighboring roadway at the north end of 40th Avenue and drained to the northwest, something Moore told the commission could be done.
The neighbors to the north had raised concerns that drainage from the development, located on a steep hillside, would cause erosion to their the road leading into their property.
Voting in favor of the planned development were Chairman Dick Meyers, Al Culver, Kim Lawrence, Mike Adams, Karen Billings and Henry Wolthuis. Frank Javersak was absent.
The commission also approved a variance from the minimum 80-foot lot width at the front building line requirement at 4700 Long St., requested by Laban Quimby of Salem, trustee for the Wicker Family Trust.
The variance allows two lots to have a 35-foot front building line as part of the partitioning of a single lot into three, including two new flag lots. All three lots meet the minimum, 8,000-square-foot requirement for low-density residential zoning.