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*-H-i June 4, 1991 City Council City of Orono 1335 South Brown Road P.O. Box 66 Orono, MN 55323 Re: Request for waiver of demolition permit Residence on Lot 1, Block 1, MacMILLAN ADDITION, according to the recorded plat thereof, Orono, Minnesota TO: Mayor and Members of the City Council: For a number of years it had become obvious that it did not make practical sense for our fan\ily to retain the old residence on Lot 1, Block 1, MacMILLAN ADDITION since no one was living in the house, and therefore a determination was made to remove the dwelling house from the property. We made this determination as far back as our going through the subdivision processes with regard to the lot on which this house was located. In connection with the platting of the property, the removal of the dwelling house from the property was discussed many times in connection with the location of lot lines within the subdivision, as well as in connection with setback lines respecting the location of the tennis court on an adjacent property. I merely recount this history to indicate that there was certainly no effort on our part whatsoever to blur, hide or make less clear our intentions with regard to this dwelling house, and discussed it with the City Planning Staff as long ago as the early sununer of 1990 when the preliminary platting processes were being worked out. In the early spring of 1991, it was determined that we could both do a service to the fire fighters serving the City of Orono, as well as reduce costs and expenses, if we would offer the dwelling house and the property around it for practice exercises to be conducted by the Long Lake Fire Department serving that portion of the Oty of Orono. Not only would the Fire Department volunteers benefit from the training, but obviously our family would benefit by minimizing exp>ense in removing the dwelling house from the property. With that in mind, we contacted Mr. Rick Perry, the Chief of the Long Lake Volunteer Fire Department and inquired of him about having the Hre Department do a controlled burning and training exercise at the dwelling house. He was very happy to agree to that and in connection therewith an agreement was entered into with the Long Lake Fire Department which we understood to be everything which was necessary in order to p>ermit the house to be burned in this controlled burning and training exercise. Mr. Perry assured us that \ J