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MEMORANDUM From: Dole: Subject: Chair Rahn and Planning Commissioners Melanie Curtis, City Planner Mike Gaffron, Planning Director^}/. November 10, 2004 File #04-3060 • Lakeshore Laud Alteration at 1220 Tonkawa Road I >\-ould offer tire following comments regarding history of the site and what I bclie\’c should be City goals for the site; 1. Fred Gutlonnson and Chic Dwight owned this property in the 1990's. In 1995 they applied for variances to replace the existing S’ x 24' deck on lire lake side of the home, and to build a screen porch unda it. This involved e.xcavation and retaining walls adjacent to tlic east end of the liousc in order to have the floor of the screen porch level the full width of the house. That application also proposed some boulder retaining walls betw cen 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 poreh. subject to hardcover removals around tire property, but were fonnally denied (Resolution No. 3 6 11) the ability to place rock w alls and borders lakew aid of tlie house, because at that time staff found no eridence of erosion that w oitld lra\ e required such substantial w ork. They w ere ad\ iscd to establish lawn in the areas betw cen the house and tire lakeshore bank, w ithout dunging grades or removing vegetation. Further, at that time there was a substantial grow th 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 cast wall of the house from the lake. Tliis was considered as a plus by the City, since tlie house is so close to the lake. Drainage was an issue for the Guttormsons, as the 'hump' area drained to the south rather than toward the lake (this drainage pattern is also visible by examining the photo, and (rom the Cit>'s 1992 topography map). Tlicy were concerned about drainage entering the screen porch area. They were advis^ they could establisli a shallow sw ale just east of the dak to channelize the flow to the south. I don’t know whether they did this or how cffccuvc it was. In 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 199S approval. A new afler-thc-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 finali^ and the garage w as not built, Guttonnson did eventually remove the hardcover areas originally required to be removed.