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* r^.i >.1. k ■! <br />5. <br />6. <br />7. <br />8. <br />The City does not normally look favorably on variances to the structural lot <br />coverage limitation, especially on properties less than 10,000 s.f. in size. <br />To place a 1,500 s.f. house on the property and maintain required lakeshore <br />setbacks, a rear yard setback is required. The property located behind the <br />subject property is guided for a future trail corridor and has been used as a <br />rail corridor for many years. This property does not abut another residential <br />property to the rear. <br />Crystal Bay Road is located only 10' from the lakeshore of Lake Minnetonka. <br />The road is a public road that is owned and maintained by the City of Orono. <br />To provide access to the property, a driveway must be located in the 0-75' <br />lakeshore setback. The property owners have designed a minimum sized <br />driveway that will provide adequate access to the two stall garage. <br />Council finds that the design of a 50' X 30' house allow s the property to develop to <br />1,500 s.f. The location of a house 30' wide has caused the building to encroach <br />slightly into the side yard setbacks. <br />If the house were reduced in width to maintain a building size of 1,500 s.f it would <br />require a greater rear yard setback. The proposed house is located at the setback of <br />the e.xisting house on the lot. <br />The house has a FFli of 945.8'. The house is designed to match the e.xisting <br />topography of the lot. If the house were moved closer to the rear property line the <br />house would begin to move into the hillside, as the ground elevation begins to <br />sharply rise to the future trail corridor. <br />The City Council finds that the conditions existing on this property are peculiar to it <br />and do not apply generally to other property in this zoning district; that granting the <br />variances will not adversely affect traffic conditions, light, air, nor pose a fire hazard <br />or other danger to neighboring property; would not merely serve as a convenience to <br />the applicants, but is necessary to alleviate a demonstrable hardship or difficulty; is <br />necessary to preserve a substantial property right of the applicants; and w ould be in <br />keeping with the spirit and intent of the Zoning Code and Comprehensive Plan of the <br />City. <br />Page 3 of 7