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ls� P . 0 . B ox 57 (1305 North Arm Prive) Mound, Minnesota 55364 September 15, 1986 ORONO PLANNING COMMISSION May I reiterate my comments in my recent telephone conversation within this last week with regard to the matter of the proposed alteration of the Carson property, your item #1066. Because of the results after the erection of their garage next to my Easterly property line, I-'-enuously object to any additional alterations of any kind. At the time Mr. James Carson asked me to sign his petition to unable him to build said structure, we made a pact regarding the effect on my homestead. However, after the garage had been built this pact was completely overlooked. Not only was his garage "banked" on three sides with stone pebbles to keep the rainfall from soaking into his land (thus providing a perfect "catchall" of that water on my slightly lower land) but ..'so while I had been away at work, Mr. Carson lined the boundary line with .arily planted trees. These trees have been growing upward and sideways unti- .,.,w the leaves provide a veritable umbrella, preventing any of the sunshine to penetrate to my "wetlands" (since ere, 'on of his garage) but pliable enough to allow every drop of rain through. _his keeps the ground so soft until middle or very late summer that it is impossible to keep my new lawnmower from sinking inches into the ground. By the time my lawr finally dries out enough to get the lawnmower through, the grass and weeds are so high I find it impossible for me to cut them, due to the overheating of the mower. (In passing, I might add that originally there was only a slight slope between the Houghmaster property and mine, but since the Carson trees, it has become well pronounced - possibly due to the "mounding up" of those trees necessary when planted.) When I requested Jim Carson to trim his trees so I might have a little sun- light falling on my lawn, he advised me of the few trees planted next to my house that I should cut down instead (denying me any windbreak in the winter or shade in the summer.) He then stated that i reall: did not own any of the trees except those midcenter of my land (contrary to the information I was given when I purchased this property). Mr. Carson seemed to take pleasure in moving the stone marker at the corner of my lot to any position he chose. It seems very odd to me that the boundary line as described to me by the realtoi when I moved in and again as described to me later by Mr. Houghmaster - from whom Carsons purchased their lot - should suddenly move after Mr. Carson erected his garage. With this kind of cooperation from the Carsons, I fear the results of their future building. With the front third to half of my side lawn eroded by the result of their past construction, I dread any future erection. I'm sure the end result would be the same - stone pebbles lining the construction line and rainfall on that land flooding my lower elevation. When I moved here I purchased a beautiful. home site; since the era of the Carsons, it has become a jungle. I respectfully beg you to deny the Carson request for line devian:.e and added construction.