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• • • I HARDSmP/DESCRIPTlON OF UNUSUAL PROPERTY CONDITIONS Our lot is an irregularly shaped piece of properQr in a neighborhood of five houses serWced by a private road. The city does not own nor maintain the road. All costs of paving, repair and snow removal are paid by the owners of these five properties. This is a dead-end road and our home is at the dead-end of the road along with one other home. The road runs along one side of the first three of the homes on the street, but runs along two sides of our property as it turns to meet up with the end of the driveway of the last home on the road. Ours is the only home where the road runs along two sides of our property. This combined with the &ct that the lots are srruUl and ours is an irregular sh^ie makes it impossible to build a much-needed garage and still comply with all of the set^k requirements. We need the garage because we have had to pafic our vehicles outside for the five years that we have occupied this home. This is not only a great inconvenience especially in the winter, but the neighboriiood would look better without our driveway always full of cars. The home does have a tuck-under garage but we have not been able to use it for two primary reasons. The first reason is that the garage faces the north side of our property and at the nearest comer is only ten feet from the property line. At the property line, there is a retaining wall and a six-foot drop-off down to the neighbors yard and home. It is virtually impossible to get a car into one stall and very difficult to get into the other stall without risking going over the wall and crashing into the neighb s home. Tlus dangerous situation in itself has caused us not to use the garage, but in addition to this problem we need a garage for storage. We have no basement on our home and therefore no storage area for things such the lawn mower, snow blower, bikes, tools and seasonal items. We have been storing these under a deck area, but this is an eyesore for our neighbors as well as for us and also is a problem with squirrels and chipmunks. The proposed garage would give us a safe place to park our vehicles out of the elements and would give us the storage space that we need. The variance requested affects no one other than one neighbor and us. This neighbor does not have a problem with the variance that we are requesting. #2814 t eJ