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03/16/98 14: 03 FAX 612 4 73 i058 STEINER f4] 003/003 <br />Steiner & Kopn_el_m __ a_n _______________ .....,.... <br />A Tradition Of Excellence <br />473.5435 <br />March 16, 1998 <br />Dear Orono Planning Commission and Council: <br />Steiner & Koppelman has been designing a home for the Hausers to commence <br />construction early this Spring. I'm obviously aware of the problem you're currently <br />addressing as it relates to hardcover. We have been design/build contractors for fifty <br />two years with a volume of ten to twelve houses per year. The home we have designed <br />for the Hausers is consistent with what we're building today in this type of <br />neighborhood. When someone is forced to pay the kind of money the market demands <br />for an exquisite site such as this, it only follows that you have to invest as _g_ minimum an <br />equal amount in the structure. <br />In my opinion this is definitely not too much home for the lot or the neighborhood. The <br />design has taken the natural slopes of the lot into consideration and all means have <br />been utilized to reduce hardcover. The driveway is a minimum twelve foot wide with <br />the smallest "guest loop" that a car can turn around in, Directly across the street you <br />allowed one of the largest homes ever built on Lake Minnetonka since the Pillsbury <br />mansion. The home to the South is approximately 523 square feet larger, the home <br />under design to replace the Newman house is 1,092. squar~ feet larger (House only, no <br />garage, pool, decks, etc.), I have no plan to measure, but the Morrie Wagner home <br />must be double the size of the proposed Hauser home. <br />What we have designed is a very beautiful Traditional style home to tit into the <br />neighborhood and look as if it may have been there for the last sixty years. Considering <br />the quality of neighborhood and lakeshore lt shouldn 1t be considered excessive by <br />anyone used to dealing in the Lake Minnetonka area. <br />Respectfully yours, <br />STEINER & KOPPELMAN, INC. <br />f~~ng(_~ <br />President <br />RCL/as <br />Residential Construction • Consultation • Design <br />3610 South Highway 101 • Way.:ata, MN 55.391