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The existing impervious surface coverage of the property is 8.5% and the proposed impervious surface coverage is 9.8%. The applicants have submitted a sufficient �-- stormwater management plan with the application. In order to accommodate the additional bedroom, the applicants will be upgrading the existing SSTS with a 1,500 gallon compartmented septic tank. The existing drainfield is compliant and sufficient. The subject property contains three parcels (Lot 1, Lot 2, and Lot 3). All of the lots are non-conforming. The principal structure (and proposed additions) straddles the lot line between lots one and two. Applicable Regulations: The following regulations apply to this request: Section 17-3.2. DEFINITIONS 36. Bluff. A topographic feature such as a hill, cliff or embankment having all of the following characteristics: A. Part or all of the feature is located in a shoreland area. B. The slope rises at least twenty-five (25) feet above the ordinary high water mark of the water body. C. The grade of the slope from the toe of the bluff to a point twenty- five (25) feet above the ordinary high water level averages thirty (30)percent or greater. D. The slope must drain towards the water body. An area with an average slope of less than eighteen(18) percent over a distance for fifty (50) feet or more shall not be considered part of the bluff. 37. Bluff Impact Zone. A bluff and the land located within twenty(20) feet inland from the top of the bluff. 45. Building Height. The vertical distance between the highest adjoining ground level at the building or ten (10) feet above the lowest ground level, whichever is lower, and the highest point of a flat roof or average height between the eaves and the highest ridge of gable, hip or gambrel roofs or ten feet below the peak, whichever is greater. Section 17-4.3 USE OF PRE-EXISTING LOTS Pequot Lakes Staff Report 4(a)-2 April r7,2014