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fUIkf I WWW^ ^^^i»f^rSnr473-7357 I CITY of ORONO Fust OfTicc Box 66*CrytUl Bay, KinneaoU 55323 • Municipal Oflicea On the North Shore of Lake Minnetonka tDRONO November 26, 1979 41 Mr. Steve Hendrickson % E.S. Hendrickson 525 North Perndale Hayzata, MN 55391 Dear Mr.' Hendrickson: This letter is to confirm our conversation in my office on November 16 and Mr. Dick Benson's visit with you earlier this week. The work you did this July in building a connection between the two garages was done without a permit and is in violation of both the zoning code and the State Building Code. As you and I fully discussed when you received the permit for the second garage in 1976, the zoning code limits accessory buildings to 1,000 square feet in size and requires a 10 ft. setback between structures. The building code requires full frost footings under all buildings in excess of 1,000 square feet, footings which are not present under the 840 square ft. original garage. The combined garage as you have made it is now some 2,160 square feet in ground area. As of our meeting, you were given an application for a zoning variance which was to be returned to me no later than November 30, 1979 if you wish to seek after-the-fact approval from the City Council*^ You will remember, however, that I cautioned you that legal hardships would be difficult if not impossible to prove, meaning that variance approval is unlikely. Then too, in the event that a zoning variance was granted, you would still be required to make the building conform to State Building Code structural requirements including the con struction of frost footings under the old garage. I suggest that you get an estimate for the footing construction before you proceed with the variance. In my experience, I think that you will find such work to be exhorbitant in cost when necessary to accomodate only 300 square feet of storage area. In addition, you 1 i I