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EXHIBIT B <br />JuV21, 1998 Request for Hardcover Variance <br />The applicant desires to provide winter storage space for lawn furniture and equipment for which space <br />is not now available in the existing structure. The existing structure is built on land with a high water <br />table and soil whose instability requires that the foundation be supported by poured concrete grade <br />beams resting on pilings. The high water table does not allow for any more than low headroom space in <br />the area beneath the structure. This space can only be reached by a narrow, twisting stairwell inside the <br />house, allowing for the storage of only small articles. Large articles such as lawn equipment can not, <br />without great difficulty, be moved in and out of this space. An exterior entrance to this space would <br />require cutting through one of the grade beams. This, of course, would destroy its structural load-bearing <br />intgrity. There is no other area within the existing structure suitable for this type of storage. <br />To solve this problem, the applicant would construct a small storage shed on the property on an area <br />whose topography slopes away from rather than toward the shoreline of Lake Minnetonka. As such, the <br />hardcover created by this structure would not cause drainage toward the lake. Existing hardcover within <br />the 75-250 ft now exceeds the maximum amount allowed. Although there is plenty of property beyond <br />the 250 ft. setback zone, nothing can be built on it because it is wetland. <br />Hardship is thus created because of the wetland and limitations of the existing structure. <br />The proposed shed would be located in compliance with all the other required distances from house, <br />wetland, and property lines. It would be built on a raised platform with open ground beneath, allowing <br />for some drainage of roof runoff underneath the shed in order to minimize runoff to the remaining open <br />ground. <br />Although existing hardcover exceeds the m'^ximum amount allowed in the 75- 25OEXMlJlIiSlIof this <br />hardcover, is on land that drains away fror sr than toward the lake. If the area of this portion of 4^*^ ^ <br />hardcover were not included in the cak 'the remaining hardcover would be well within tl^s^ <br />maximum allowed amount for this zone as sho calculation: <br />Remaining hardcover draining toward lake <br />Total area in zone <br />% Hardcover <br />Allowed hardcover <br />3,012.3 S.F. <br />21,157.5 SF. <br />14.3 % <br />25.0 % <br />Taking total property area and total hardcover into consideration results in the foilowing: <br />Existing hardcover--75 ft. zone 24.0 S.F. <br />“ “ - 75-250 ft. zone 9,654.1 S.F. <br />Proposed hardcover 168.0 S.F. <br />Total hardcover 9,846.1 S.F. <br />Total property'area 51,239.0 S.F. <br />% Hardcover 19.2 % <br />Allowed hardcover as averaged thru all applicable zones 24.7 % <br />. <br />Because of the hardship described above along with other mitigating circumstances, the applicant <br />requests a variance from the hardcovei requirements in order to erect this shed.