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June 8, 2007 <br /> City of Orono <br /> 2750 Kelly Parkway <br /> Orono, MN 55323 <br /> Attn: Planning Commission <br /> Dear Commissioners: <br /> I purchased the property at 2523 Kelly Avenue in 2000. I have not changed anything <br /> since I purchased the house. My present deck off the bedroom is only 3 '/2 feet wide <br /> which is inadequate room for placing a chair on it. My wife had recent hip replacement <br /> surgery so for ease of mobility I want to enlarge the deck to connect to the existing deck <br /> to the west. <br /> Most of the proposed deck is situated over existing landscape rock on plastic. The net <br /> increase in hardcover for the proposed deck is only 190 square feet. I am proposing to <br /> remove 590 square feet of rock on plastic on the west side of the house for a decrease in <br /> hardcover of 400 square feet. <br /> The driveway shown on the original building permit survey in 1990 showed two one foot <br /> wide driving strips for much of the length of the driveway and a sma11 turnout area in <br /> order to maximize the original home footprint. This is a tough lot because it pies out <br /> toward the lake but is quite narrow in the 75' to 250' zone. Since this driveway was not <br /> practical as originally shown,previous owners expanded it to make it more functional. <br /> Because of the acute angle required to enter the garage,the boulder wa11 on the side of <br /> the garage, adj acent trees and needed room for snow storage in the winter,the present <br /> driveway can not be reduced at all. <br /> This whole hardcover issue is something I didn't create,but inherited it. Even with the <br /> minor deck addition I am well under the structural coverage allowed. The only thing I <br /> can remove is landscape areas which have nice shrubs growing in them. I want to disturb <br /> as few as possible of these areas and feel that more than doubling the removal of <br /> hardcover for the minor 190 square feet deck addition is more then adequate. My house <br /> is well behind the 75 foot setback line and the whole north half of the house and lot <br /> drains north away from the lake anyway. <br /> Sincerely, <br /> D Family As iates, C <br /> en Sachs <br />