The following information was provided by the city's Department of Planning and Development. The project number is in parentheses. For more information, call 684-8467.
INTERPRETATIONS
■ 712 N. 81st St. (4007114) regarding a 6,120-square-foot parcel consisting of two platted lots in an SF 5000 zone, where a minimum lot area requirement of 5,000 square feet generally applies. The question raised is whether the two platted lots each qualify for an exception to the lot-area requirement made under the Land Use Code for certain lots of historic record.
When two lots have been under common ownership, this exception cannot be applied to allow them to be developed as separate sites if a house straddles the lot line or one lot has been used to meet yard or other requirements for the other. An existing house, built in approximately 1910, is either completely or predominantly on one of the two lots.
Existing permit and tax records are not sufficient to determine whether the other lot was used as a part of the site of the house.
A survey documenting the location of the house with respect to the platted lot line is necessary to resolve this. If there is no encroachment, the lots qualify for development as separate building sites. But if there is any substantial encroachment, the lots will not qualify for separate development.
Appeal of the Interpretation may be submitted through 5 p.m. Monday, Aug. 13, with a $50 filing fee in a check payable to the City of Seattle. The appeal must state specifically why the appellant believes the Interpretation is incorrect.
The appeal must be sent to City of Seattle Hearing Examiner, 700 Fifth Ave., Suite 4000, P.O. Box 94729, Seattle, WA 98124-4729.
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