06-19-2006 Planning Commission Packet

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� . 2595 �Casco Paint Road Variance Request Sent VYa Fax ta 952-Z49-4616 � _ March 20, 2006 Ci.ty oi Orono 2750 Kelley Parkwa� PO Box 66 � Crystal Bay, MN 55323 RE:V'ariance Reques�s for 2695 Casco�Point Road By Pa�tl Thomas Homes � It appeazs that the req�est is no longer on tonight's planning commission agenda. WE assume it will get rescheduled:for another meeting. �Ne would like ta submit some comments in regard to the pro�os�d reqa�st via this leiter. We ar�doing khis just in case we have to miss the nexct meeting. V��are also doing it�n the hope that the city's ei�gineers can address the�drainage issues &automobile �urnaroiu�d issu�s that this proper(:y suffers from. IViy wife a.nd I live next door io t�ie subject property. We h�.ve livcd at 2691 Casco Point Road since June of 1991. We have s�en a'lot of changes�ca our neigllborhood in that period of time and we lika th.e xebuilding tha�has been occurring. 'the n�w owner o�this property,Paul Thomas�-iomes,has requested variances to allow them to tcar dovv��the current house and build a new one. The new owner is a builder who has previously built on lakeshore in our fair city. So the new awner wa5 £�tll�aware of tl�e city's ordinances wh�n he purchased the propexty. There is really only one variance that the city can really taks issue with u1 lhe notice that was sen�C to me,that being the hardcover requ�st��or the 75'to 250' zone. There is a current h4use on the properiy that the new owraer wants to tear down at�.d r.eplace. The cutrent house is alre�dy vvell in excess nf the Z5%hardeov�r limitatiun for this zone. This hardcover was already approved by thc city when the house�uvas originally built in 1989. In fact there is les�hardcover today then originally agproved by thc city. A previous owner removed a back dpek sys�tem Iast summer,reducin�a couple hw�dred feet o�hardeover in tlus zone. All that said, we want the builder to be able to build as large a house as he wants too, assuming: . 1, that no set back or he�ght variances are required, 2. that no part of the prop�rty is built wi��in the zero to 7S' zone, and . 3. that total hardcover is no �reater than tir►hat the property cunently uses within the 75' to 250' zone, ` . � ;