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11 <br />a. •ti* \ <br />) <br />'*’0»;j <br />HARDSHIP/DESCRIFHON OF UNUSUAL PROPERTY CONDITIONS <br />Attachment <br />A <br />The subject lot has a very acceptable amount of lake shore--125 feet-but the lot is <br />otherwise unusually "short” for having such good frontage on the lake. Applying the full <br />lake setback to this lot, with its lack of depth, pushes potential house footprints unusually <br />close to the front of the lot. <br />As the house slides away from the lake and approaches the front third of the Jot, two <br />things happen: <br />1) The housf; gets shoved againsL and into, a lovely hill that occupies much of the front <br />(road or west side) of the lot This is a further unusual condition for such a lot We want <br />to be able to look at this hill, and don’t want to be in this hill. The hill serves as a good <br />buffer between the house and busy Tonkawa Road. <br />2) The full application of the lake setback puts the home surprisingly close to Tonkawa <br />Road, which is busy and carries fairly high traffic—including school buses and trucks—at <br />certain times of the day. <br />There is a reason that the present home, built decades ago, sits so close to the lake. That <br />reason is that the lot is abnormally "short" and somewhat small for such a nice lot, and <br />the house was built to give it adequate separation from the hill so as to assure egress to <br />the structure. <br />3) The area of the lot not in the lake setback is limited. Since the land in the lake setback <br />cannot be counted in hard cover calculations, the 7.5 percent must totally apply to what is <br />left, forcing a smaller home and a significant cor promise on our garage and driveway <br />options. <br />4) Finally, the busy traffic on Tonkawa Road suggests we have a modest tmn around <br />such that neither guests, delivery vehicles or our own cars necessitate backing out onto <br />this arterial roadway.