10-24-1988 - Agenda Packet City Council - regular meeting

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ow.F JULY ,5, 1'388 CITY OF URONO . O. BOX 66 L;RYS I AL @AY, MN JJ..LcC , 1 16 RE: BUILDING PERMIT VARIANCE APPLICATICN / TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: ENCLOSED THERE IS A BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATION, TWO COPIES OF MY CONSrRUCTION PLANS, 0 VARIANCE APPLICATION AND A SIGNF�,D N014-OBJECTION LETTER FROM MY NEAREST NEIGHBORS REGARDING THE PROPOSED WO::DEN DECK ON THE FRONT OF MY PROPERTY. THE MAJOR REASON I LIVE WHERE I DO :3 THE ENJOYMENT WHICH THE VIEW OF LAKE MINNETONKA PROVIDES ME. THE IDEP T+-AT I HAVE "O JUMP THROUGH ALL OF THESE BU REAUC:RH [ I C yUU DS S i iht- L'Y' rU F'U-r AN 1_1NUB T RUS I VE DECA ON THE FRONT OF MY PREMISE';: I S REPUGNANT TO ME. PER THE I NFOki"A l OVAL PAGE: ON YOUR VARIANCE APPLICATION, 1"HE HARD�aH I P WHICH i 1"LS ►" ENDURE 1' ONE OF LACK OF SIMPLE COMMON SENSE. I HAVE ENCLOSED ZVE,'RAL WHOTOGRAPHS Or OTHER DECKS f=•UILT ON STRUCTURES ON MY IMMEADIATE BLOCK. WHICH DO NOT MEET YOUP ZONING REQUIREMENTS AS TO SETBACK DISTANCES. I AM NOT INCLUDING THESE PHC"OGRAPHS SIMPLY TO SHOW YOU THAT OTHER EXCEPTIONS HAVE BEEN MADE OR HAVE bEEN GiiONUFATHERED INTO PLAC'c; R1•:THER, M`( INTENT 1S SHOW YOU THAT DECK ON THE FRONT Or ONE'S PROPERTY IS MORE OF A MATTER OF S1"ANDORD AND ACCEPTED PRACT:t.:'_ IN OUR LOCALITY. I WOULD COMPARE IT TO THE OWNERSHIP AND MAINTENCE CF DOCK. IT EFFECTS THE "ORDERLY DEVELOPEMENT AND USE OF THE LAND" AND EFFECTS ABOUT AS MUt_,, "HARDL.OVEiR" AS A DOCK. WITH THAT MINI -TIRADE OUT OF THE WA", I WILL ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN MY CONSTTRUCTION PLANS. AS YOU WILL READILY SEE WHEr, `►]U LOOK OVER THE CONSTRUCTIJN PLANS, i AM NOT AN ARC:AIEC'i BY TRADE. IN AN EFFORT TO CLLAR UP' ANY QUESTIONS WHICH YOU MAY HAVE I WILL IitirJLUDE A BRIEF NARATIVE REGARDING MY CONSTRUCTION PLANS. THERf.' ARE TWO TYPES OF LUMBER WHICH WILL BE USED IN THIS PROJECT. WHEN THIS PROJECT IS COMPLETED, THE NONVISABLE, SUPPORT, FRAMING MATERIAL WILL BE CONSTRUCTION GRADE TREATED PONDEROSA FINE (HEREAFTER RE=ERED TO AS TREATED). THE VISAHLE OUTSIDE CASING AND THE DECKING I-i"SEL WILL 8E CONSTRUCTED OUT OF REDWOOD LUMBER (HEREAFTER REFERED TO AS REDWOOD). THE FOUNDATION OF THIS DECK BUILT NEAREST THE EXSISTING DWELLINb IS BUILT ON 8X1EX18 CONCRETE BLOCKS. THERE ARE TWO EXBXiu TREATED RUNNERS tCUT TO LENGTH), BOLTED WITH METAL BOLTS AND ANCHORS, WHICH FORM THE REAR HEADER. THE FRONT HEADER IS ALSO CONSTRUCTED OUT OF TWO 2X8X1V TREATED RUNNERS, TIED TO A SERIES OF FIVE 4X4 REDWOOD SUPPORT POSTS. THERE ARE 15, 10 FOOT, TREATED, jX8 JOISTS RUNNINGS BETWEEN THESE TWO HEADERS. EACH OF THESE JOISTS ARE CONECTED TO THE HEADERcc ON BOTH ENDS BY JOIST HANGERS. T1iESE JOISTS ARE SErERArED 9Y 16 INCH CENTERS. THE TWO OUTSIDE TREArED JOISTS ARE EACH FURTHER CONECTED ATTACHED TO TWO 4X4 AND ONE 2X4 REDWOOD SUPPORT POSrS. THE REMAINDER OF THE DECK IS VISABLE ANL IS CONSTRUCTED WITH REDWOOD LUMBER. THERE IS ON ._X4 SUPPORT POST UN EITHER SIDE OF THE DECK LOCATED NEXT TO THE DWELLING. ON EACH OF THE 1U FOOr LENGTHS, THERE IS A 4X4 POST SITUATED t;1VE FEET FROM El [HER END AND ANUTHER 4X4 PUSr UN rHE PORTION OF THE DECK LOCATED Gv THE F,iUwT CORNER OF DEC:<j AWAY _RUM THE DWE�_LItiG. CONECTED TO THE OUTSIZE i C,= THESE SIX 4EDWOOD POSTS ARE TWO JA6XiO REDWOOD BOARDS WHIC.1 FIRM THE OUTSIDE PORTION OF THE TWO lV FOOT `TIDES.