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/V <br />ScottLarsonHomes <br />213 Crestridge Drive • Burnsville. /Minnesota 55337 • (612) 435-6660 <br />I <br />I. <br />August 17, 1992 <br />Planning Conmission of Orono <br />1355 Brown Road South <br />Crystal Bay, Minnesota 55323 <br />Gentlemen and Ladies of the Commission: <br />The 1992 Scott Larson Homes Parade of Homes entry is now being constructed <br />at 2112 Sugar Woods Drive in Orono. <br />I should like to have landscape site plan approval including driveway <br />location and landscape p’ers adjacent the front sidewalk approved at <br />this evening's meeting. Toward this end I am enclosing a Landscape <br />Plan dated Aug\ist 11, 1992 by D.R. Griwwold and Associates, Registered <br />Landscape Architect of Burnsville. Also enclosed is a rendered <br />elevation from Bruce Schmitt and Associates, Registered Architect of <br />Wayza ta. <br />2) <br />3) <br />The proposed plan offers the following benefits not otherwise accomplished: <br />1) It minimizes the removal of trees in the front and sideyard areas. <br />No further existing trees need to be removed; <br />Minimal ground cover i.*= disturbed; <br />Minimum excavating, retaining walls, backfill and forced grades <br />are required with the current placement. This not only enhances <br />the perceived value of the lot but the natural setting of the <br />homesite and the overall project; <br />It also provides nearly level access to the garage for safety reasons <br />rather than a 6 foot descent from the street to the garage. Icy <br />conditions in the winter could easily render drivers slipping directly <br />into expensive garage doors. Equally dangerous conditions result from <br />egress onto Sugar Woods Drive. <br />4) <br />1 <br />Finally, I am enclosing copies of letters from the architect, the Dev­ <br />eloper and a fellow builder in Sugar Woods with their positive recomm­ <br />endation of my proposed plan. <br />Thank you for your assistance <br />^'resident