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r L 09/25/ISB3 12:20 012-942-9204 AVIATION OHaPTEP PA'.ih »J2 COUNCIL ME^riNQ SEP2 8 199B ^ 2^30?© September 24, 1998 cmroFORONO Mayor and Council Members Gemletnen I am corresponding to bring you up to date on the progress of our remodeling project located at 710 North Arm Drive. Over the last five months our family has worked with the planning commisssion to receive approval for a home renovation on our property. Our initial request sought approval for a four hundred square foot addition to tite south side of our eight hundred square foot home. Our request was tabled by the commission until city staff could visit the sight to determine whether there would be an impact due to a bluff located on the southerly boundary. Our second appearance before the June Planning commission responding to the commission’s request for a site opinion produced a staff letter stating that there would be no bluff impact by proceeding with the proposed addition. Regardless, the request was denied and commission’s suggestion was to start over again and go up in height with the house and keep the footprint intact. Our third appearance in July followed commission’s direction and went up in height with the home as wdl as squared up the foundation on the westerly side of the house. The commission approved this third request and passed on to city council for approval. The plan, executed by Mike Sharratt. of Sharratt Design, was approved at the council level. A permit was subsequently issued after obtaining a structural engineer ’s report approving the integrity of the existing foundation. During the renovation process which required furring out the out:nde two by four walls to meet today’s two by six stud codes we discovered rotted, insect damaged, and/or cut up or missing studs and poorly reinforced attempts at patching. We needed to brii^ the two by six studs up to today’s city code requirements of Orono. It was not possible to flir out the existing ii^adequate two by fours so we desire to replace with new two by sixes. While removing the basement ceiling for placement of the steps it was noted the floor joists were partially removed, in bad condition, and would not pass code. Our contractor initiated a call to the building inspector to check the new footing in the squared off southwest comer of the house and advised the inspector also of the floor joist status. Upon inspection by the inspector he concurred that the existing floor joists would have failed inspection and would have been “red tagged”. The inspector advised the