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0 <br /> I . <br /> CITY of ORONO <br /> Post Office Box 66•Crystal Bay,Minnesota 55323•Municipal Offices <br /> • <br /> s _ o On the North Shore of Lake Minnetonka <br /> Apr , 991 <br /> Ben Young <br /> 3105 Sixth Avenue North <br /> Long Lake, MN 55356 <br /> James Grabek <br /> 3050 Jamestown Road <br /> Long Lake, MN 55356 <br /> RE: Possible Septic System Encroachment Over Lot Line <br /> Gentlemen: <br /> This letter is intended to clarify any confusion regarding the City's <br /> position on the possible encroachment of Grabek's septic system onto <br /> Young's property. <br /> It appears likely that all parties involved with this system assumed <br /> that the lot line was coincident with the fence. Last fall, Young's <br /> surveyor placed a lot line stake some distance south of the fence line <br /> and possibly into the uphill dike of Grabek's mound system. <br /> The plan submitted for Grabek's mound additions in 1988 proposed the <br /> uphill toe of the mound system 4' from the lot line. The rock bed was <br /> proposed at 22' from the lot line. While the City Code required a 20' <br /> setback from the toe to the lot line, the State recommended guidelines <br /> would have allowed a 10' setback. However, at that time the State was <br /> revising their regulations, to allow measurement of the 10' setback <br /> from the edge of the uphill side of the rock bed, for mounds on <br /> slopes. The theory is that effluent will generally move vertically <br /> downward from the rock bed and then proceed downhill, with little <br /> influence uphill. <br /> Since the City has granted variances to allow septic setbacks of 10' <br /> or less when neighboring properties will not be affected, and because <br /> the proposed plan met the intent of the State Code and would not <br /> affect Young's property, the proposed setbacks were approved as <br /> proposed. To the City's knowledge, the repairs to the system were <br /> completed per this plan. <br /> If in fact the lot line is now found to be further south than the <br /> fence, there is a possible encroachment of the uphill dike of the <br /> mound into Young's property. It is still the City's position that the <br /> toe of the mound is allowed to be as close as 4' to the lot line, but <br /> no closer, to allow for diversion of surface drainage around the mound <br /> within Grabek's property. <br /> BUILDING&ZONING-473-7357 • ADMINISTRATION&FINANCE-473-7358 • PUBLIC WORKS-473-7359 <br /> ASSESSING FAX-473-0510 <br />