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r fb July 21, 1994 The City Council 6 Planning Coaunissioner City of Orono P.O. Box 66 Crystal Bay, MN 55323 in response to your letter regarding the fence on reouestina the City's consideration of a variance. This fence is looted within our property lines and provides a boundary and privacy 2/aSd C.r«in Av.nu.. car«an Avenue i. an «=•»• from Casco Point Road down to the lake. Carman Avenue is Presently being used as a public swim beach, an area for P«°ple to park ^heir cars^and bikes, and t. place where people can walk down to the lake. wa Durchased our home in July of 1987 and have never called the City regarding any problems concerning this public area. We f* purchased our house the existing fencing, our shed, and large evergreens along our property line would ^ ^ eliminate any possible problems which could result from living a pUblic arei. Last year we added to and remodeled our home. In the orocess of improving our property, we needed a variance because of hard cover in^the middle zone. The City gave us the variance provided we tore down our 20' x 8'-4" shed located in the ®°'^^hwest corner of the lot down by the lake. We agreed to remove our shed and have done so. After removing our shed, the existing fence became ejPo®®^ was in need of major repairs. We will present pictures of both the new and existing conditions of the fencing and landscaping at ^he meeting August 15th. After examining the existing 5®Ile^;o??ed*out at the posts were not treated lumber and most of them were created the ground. This condition plus many broken horizontal boards created a safety hazard for both the public side and °£.^^^?_^®Jion For this reason, we choose to rebuild the v>n;*rds in lieu of slowly replacing vertical posts and horizontal boa . This safety hazard could cause injury to some person or child create a law suit.