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Don Bjork 10 September 1986 Mary Butler, Mayor City of Orono P.O. Box 66 Crystal Bay, Minnesota 55323 Dear Mrs. Butler: SEP 15 On 18 Auqust 1986, the Planning Commission voted d to 2 against recommending a conditional use nermit for a resi- dential property located at 2259 Shadywood Road in Navarre ,Ind owned by my mother, Margaret J. Bjork. May I rospect-- fully request that you and the City Council exercise your own prerogative in weighing the facts of this case. Thus doing, I believe you will aaree with those members of the Planning Cormission who felt the permit should be granted. 1. The applicant. Before I cite the stated reason for 3enial and the basis of the Applicant's appeal, may I sav that she has earned and deserves your special considation, this for no other reason than her faithful service as Post- master of Minnetonka reach for 23 years. Now 88 years old, Mother has been widowed since 1969, when my father (former- ly floor manager of the Minnetonka Herald) passed away. Still serving her church and community, she continues to live independently, this with a minimum of help like this from her four sons, who were all raised in the Minnetonka area anO are now scattered from coast to ccast. 2. The stated reason for the denial. The 22 Auqust 1986 "Notice of Planning Commission Action" states that the Com- mission recommends denial for the following reason: "An- plicant has always been placed on Notice by the City that second residential unit allowed in 1976 was always to serve owner as a non -rental unit." The Applicant does not deny receiving such Notices, either personally or through her sons; but all will bear witness that they placed her under year of unnecessary stress, if r,,)t actual duress. Because of the Citv_'s position, the Shadywood property has become a burden rather than a bles- sing. When my brother Clifford was called to the ministry out of business in Navarre, the main upstairs unit became vacant. This left mother not only alone in the downstairs unit, but without recourse to renting out the upstairs unit. Unable to sustain the costs of such a large building, she was eventually forced out of her own home. And, though P.O. Box WRC Nyack, New York 10960 Phone: 914/268-4135