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r li. Bc-U MEMORANDUM To:Chair Rahn and Planning Commissioners Melanie Curtis, City Planner From: Date: Subject: Mike GafTron, Planning Director November 10,2004 File #04-3060 - Lakeshore Land Alteration at 1220 Tonkawa Road I would oflfer the following comments regarding history of the site and what I believe should be City goals for the site; 1.Fred Guttoimson and Chic Dwight owned this property in the 1990's. In 1995 they applied for variances to replace the existing 8' x 24' deck on the lake side of the home, and to build a screen porch under it This involved excavation and retaining walls adjacent to the east end of tire house in order to have the floor of the screen porch level the full width of the house. That app’icatiou also proposed some boulder retaining walls between the house and the lake, perpendicular to the shoreline, to stop a drainage and erosion problem purportedly caused by lack of ground cover in this area. The result of their request is that they were approved for the deck and porch, subject to hardcover removals around the property, but were formally denied (Resolution No. 3611) the ability to place rock walls and borders lakeward of the house, because at that time staff found no evidetKe of erosion that would have required such substantial wotic. They were advised to establish lawn in the areas between the house and die lakeshore bank, without changing grades or removing vegetation. Further, at that time there was a substantial growth of mature trees and underbrush on the ‘hump’ between the house and the lake (see attached photo from City files), which acted to screen the east wall of the house from the lake. This was considered as a plus oy the City, since the house is so close to the lake. Drainage was an issue for the Guttormsons, as the ‘hump* area drained to the south ratlier than toward the lake (this drainage pattern is also visible by examining the photo, and from the City’s 1992 topography map). They were concerned about drainage entering the screen porch area. They were advised they could establish a shallow swale just east ofthe deck to channelize the flow to the south. I don’t know whether they did this or how effective it was. 2.hi 1997 it was found that the Guttormsons had gone ahead with the deck replacement and screen porch without permits, without executing the variance resolutions, and without completing the required hardcover removals associated with that 1995 approval. A new afler-tlie-fact variance application for this work was filed in 1997, in conjunction with a request for a new detached garage. While this new application was never finalized and the garage was not built, Guttomison did eventually remove the hardcover areas originally required to be removed.