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MhiR-lO-00 lOZAl FRENCHY 6124710664 P . O 2c <br />3//r/acco <br />My neighborhood <br />Out at the end of Casco point is a narrow little rood called Ivy Place. It a cull-de-sac or <br />AmaA mmA \Im^j A ill IdirtOfh nf^VlAllC fiTidfa Wlflll llD tUmillS <br />^ #i J1 Ml liin Rll^l EVl ■JBJIlll 121 M ■IQil^lWW IIK&I^ | wMi I ^^7 * AWiWO ^m m <br />dead end Very few people drive it’s fUll length, previous dead ends >^d up turning <br />around in someone's driveway. That's on embarrassment few are willing to risk. Since we <br />live almost at the very end of that "dead end" the only traffic we get is guests,neighbors. <br />and a rare real-estate junkie. • t. * <br />To the west of our home,across the street is a large shrub line,overgrown with grapevines <br />and dense foliage. As that area is within the 75 ft. Setback iVom Lake Minnetonka there <br />is NO chance that any one could ever build there. To the Northwest is Casco Cove and <br />it's wildlife island that shields the view any of the residents might have of my home ^ile <br />affording me an interesting and peaceful view of nature. Directly nonh of my home is a <br />view of Casco Point. Overgrown with large mature trees, brush, and grapevines it too is <br />an interesting view of birds, rabbits, a beaver, an occasional pair of Bald eagles etc. <br />most of the area falls in the 73ft. Setback and the little land that does not is too small to <br />build on, it too will remain as God made it. <br />To the northeast approximately 25 ft. away is the back of my neighbors house. <br />Fortunately [since they live so close] they are very nice people and we get along well. <br />Lake Minnetonka is East of our home about 100 ft. from Carmens Bay. The view to the <br />southeast is restricted by 5 large mature trees which also affords us privacy and prevents <br />those cruising on the lake ft’om seeing into oar side and back yard. <br />South of my home is my other neighbor, the placement of my home offset towards Ivy <br />Place gives both of us privacy and since both neighbors have little view out the back of <br />their homes anything in my back yard has no impact <br />My only other neighbor, to the southeast, across the road has the side of his garage facing <br />our home. In addition his house is uphill about 15ft. higher than mine. Any view out the <br />side of his home has to look over my neighbors garage <br />Lake Minnetonka has no universal or common Architectural style however within three <br />lots of my home or about 150 ft. is a house with the same roof pitch that I propow. <br />Ivy Place as well as Casco Point is dominated by 50ft Lots so most houses arc like mine <br />in that we are too large for the lots and as such we are "Existing non-^onfortm^ <br />structure ’* While wc don't conform to the cunent rules, wc should not be punished for <br />that. Please remember the rules were put into place long after most of our houses were <br />built. Nor should what wc do impact the rest of Orono Wc arc after all zoned LR IC <br />which is Vi acre lots or smaller. As most of Orono is zoned LRIA or RRliViB [lots 1 <br />acre or larger] allowing home owners a reasonable level of self determination is not only <br />fair it is in the best interest of the city. <br />1