Charrette Briefing Handbook - City of Wayzata

Attachment F
and 8:00 AM Friday Through Sunday;
5. Should WYC not have control of the parking area (Bell property) the parking lot
was to be abandoned and the limestone area covered with grass.
The property (Bell lot one) is restricted in its use by an electric power easement and
sanitary sewer and water easement including sewage lift station. The use of the land
is also restricted by the seven foot depth of the city water lines that transverse the
property.
An amendment to the 1976 agreement (Bell, Reid’s’ and Leckas properties) stipulated
that the total number of slips and buoys associated with this property would not
exceed 127 and the buoy field would not extend more than 400 feet into the lake. Although
the shoreline for this property is 540 feet long, the current LMCD dock permit
reflects this agreement.
In 1990 due to low water, WYC obtained permission to temporarily move its buoy field
from 400 feet to 800 feet. It appears; at this time is when City authorized limited parking
on the edge of Eastman Lane designating it for vehicles with trailers only. The
WYC has for 45 years been mostly a sailboat marina. However, in 1989-90 with record
low water, the WYC could not moor 4-foot draft sailboats in many marina locations.
Members parked their sailboats in their yard and the club rented the vacant slips
to 91 power boats. Without this flexibility, the yacht club could not have survived. Although
a sail boat racing and teaching marina, with this history in mind, the yacht club
will continue to require this flexibility.
Lot 4 West Parking Lot:
In 1986, WYC acquired the old Tibbits & Wise Boat Works land from the trust representing
the Wayzata Bay Association, which had purchased the land from the boat
works in 1944. This Tibbits & Wise Boat Works (lot 4 on the attached air photo) land
had been leased by WYC for parking for number of years. The use of this land as a
marina, well documented in the history section of this hand book, is a nonconforming
use in an R2A single family residential zoning district and is shown on the comprehensive
plan as semi public/private land use which includes the use as a yacht club
(private recreational use). One section (801.01.5) of the zoning ordinance indicates
that as a legally existing use at the time of its adoption, the use would now be considered
a conditional land use in this zoning district. This zoning section explains the
former planner’s recommendation and the use of a conditional use permit to allow
the jib crane.
Lot 5 Sailing Center (Hague- Rosekran’s Property):
The property, located at 456 Arlington Circle, known as the Rosekran’s property (lot 5
on the attached air photo), was acquired in 2007 for a sailing school. Sailing School
is an allowed land use in the R-2A residential zoning district with a conditional use
permit. The City Council issued the permit, with conditions, in May 2008.
Besides being subject to all the extensive regulations in the R2A, Flood Protection
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