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Monday February 22, 1999 <br />First Draft <br />To: Paul E. Weinberger <br />Assistant Zoning Administrator <br />City of Orono <br />received <br />fEB 2 2 1999 <br />Q\ i'i Ur ORONO <br />Paul, <br />We have put together some of our thoughts on the plans we submitted to you last <br />Wednesday, and would like you to look them over and share them with the staff. We <br />would like to here back as soon as possible as to what the general feeling is toward <br />this project. We very much appreciate your time and effort in this matter. <br />The following is a list of hardships we would like you to consider for the approval of our <br />revised building plans. <br />1) We have compiled with city setbacks which will have far less variance dericiencies <br />than the existing structure. <br />2) The existing foundation is not sufficient for a remodeiing/addition project. <br />3) Because of the water table on the site, we are unable to have a basement figured <br />into the overall square footage of livable space, meaning a potential loss of 33% <br />of such space for storage, etc. <br />4) The size of the house is not out of character for Balder Park Extension which is <br />comprised of mostly 50 foot wide lots. <br />5) The current zoning laws do not include 50 foot lots, which puts us in total non­ <br />conformance. Zoning of said lots needs to be revised to bring them current with <br />the times. <br />6) Over the last 5 years we have incurred substantial hardship due to the cities <br />misgrading of Birch Lane. This is a water drainage problem which we have <br />discussed with both the previous city engineer and the present engineer. We feel <br />to mitigate, the city needs to: a) correct this problem <br />b) allow building plans <br />Bruce and Betsy Nusbaum <br />3480 North Shore Drive <br />cc:Gabbriel Jabbour. Mayor <br />i <br />■i