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*.*7 Sr*^ V ‘ -• • ♦ •-« rf^ li it m-M fh»‘- 5<V t' -.•- .-..V'T?-i-i-! ft"'. » §i ^r; ■V n SEPTEMBER 19, 1988 CITY OF ORONO P.O. BOX 66 CRYSTAL BAY, MN 55323 reb variance application DEAR MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION* PLEASE ACCEPT MY APOLOGY FOR NOT BEING PRESENT AT THIS MEETING, BUT AS I AM BEING INSTALLED AS THE MASTER OF MY MASONIC LODGE TONIGHT, I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ATTEND THIS MEETING UNTIL WELL AFTER YOUR 7b00 P.M. START TIME. I HOPE THAT I AM ABLE TO BE PRESENT AT THIS MEETING BEFORE IT ENDS. ■*• 't- I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK JAY KEISER, MY NEXT STORE NEIGHBOR, FOR SITTING IN FOR ME AT THIS MEETING UNTIL I CAN GET DOWN THERE. MR. KEISER IS THE PERSON WHO WILL BE MOST EFFECTED BY THE BUILDING OF THIS DECK, OTHER THAN MYSELF OF COURSE AS NEITHER HE, NOR ANY OF MY OTHER NEIGHBORS. HAVE ANY OBJECTIONS TO MY BUILDING OF THIS DECK, I HOPE THAT WE CAN PROCEED WITH THE COMPLETION OF THIS PROJECT WITHOUT ANY FURTHER DELAYS. I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE YOU SOME BACKGROUND FIRST. THE ORIGINAL IDEA FOR THE BUILDING OF THIS DECK CAME THROUGH SOME AD HOC THERAPY BY ME FOR MY FATHER. MY FATHER SUFFERED A STROKE LAST YEAR. ALTHOUGH HIS RECOVERY HAS BEEN EXTRODINARY, LIKE MOST STROKE VICTIMS, HE STILL HAS BOTH GOOD AND BAD DAYS. I VISITED MY PARENT’’S HOME ON ONE OF HIS BAD DAYS EARLIER THIS SPRING. HE DIDN^’T SEEM TO BE ABLE TO CONCENTRATE ON WHAT WAS HAPPENING AROUND HIM VERY WELL (HE WASN’T GE1TING INVOLVED IN ANY CONVERSATIONS, HE WOULD WATCH ABOUT FIVE S'^CONDS OF ONE T.V. SHOW AND THEN CHANGE THE CHANNEL AND THEN CHANGE THE CHANNEL AGAIN AND SO ON). AS HE ALWAYS HAS BEEN QUITE A HANDYMAN, I TRIED TO HAVE HIM APPLY HIMSELF BY GIVING HIM A KNOX AD AND I TOLD HIM TO DESIGN A DECK FOR THE FRONT OF MY HOUSE. AS HE HAS DESIGNED AND BUILT 10 OR MORE DECKS FOR FRIENDS, I WAS SURE THAT HE COULD HANDLE THIS TASK AND IT DID SEEM TO FOCUS HIS ATTENTION AND CLEAR UP THE FOG THAT HE WAS IN. -i- •• - •’•jm HE WAS NOW READY TO BUILD THE DECK. TOGETHER WE WENT nyr TO PURCHASE THE SUPPLIES WHICH WE NEEDED AND WITH THE HELP OF MY YOUNGER BROTHER, WE STARTED TO BUILD THE DECK ON GOOD FRIDAY. THAT NEXT MONDAY A CITY INSPECTOR CAME BY AND ADVISED US THAT WE WOULD NEED A BUILDING PERMIT AND POSTED A STOP WORK ORDER. I DID NOT KNOW THAT WE WOULD NEED SUCH A PERMIT AND NATURALLY STOPPED WORKED IMMEDIATELY. I THEN WENT DOWN TO THE CITY HALL AND BY CHANCE MET WITH THE SAME INSPECTOR IN THAT OFFICE. THERE HE GAVE ME A PERMIT APPLICATION AND LOOKED THROUGH MY FILE TO SEE IF A PRIOR LAND SURVEY HAD BEEN COMPLETED. IT HAD NOT. HOWEVER, HE DID ADVISE ME THAT ON SUCH A SMALL SCALE PROJECT, THE SURVEY COULD AND PROBLABLY WOULD BE WAIVED IF I SENT IN AN ACCURATE DIAGRAM SHOWING WHERE THE PROPOSED DECK WOULD BE BUILT AND LAYING OUT ANY OTHER HARD COVER EXPOSURES. •S-A *3 ; . ^"1 CITY-«OF QRO DECK PERHIT IN ADDITION BOTHS BIDES THEY DID NO AND MY WORK FACT THAT I TOOK ME A C HAD ALL OF WORK ORDER, HEARD FROM OMAN. NEEDLESS TO THAT THEY N AGAIN FILE STUMPS ME A TO THE WRON AFTER AGAIN THIS INFORM OF THE *150 AND I BELIE FIRST SUBMI THAT BASICAI TO DO ON TH TO THE COMPI INTERFER WI FRONT. IN I NOT HAVE AT LAND SURVEY HOPE THAT Yi FOR A PRO J El SUCH A SIMPI WOULD THINK MUCH OF AN I MEASURABLE I EXPOSURE. J CERTAINLY MUSI Dt MUCI IS 70 COMPLt WHICH THE L^ NCERELY, / MON W. PAPA£ 3369 CRYSTAL ORONO, MN 5*