06-15-2009 Planning Commission Packet

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the surrounding properties are not currently in compliance with a 75 foot setback from Lake Minnetonka or the Ferndale Marsh. Equal enforcement is required in the application of your codes and regulations and therefore no single property should be unfairly burdened with a hardship caused by rigid enforcement of your rules and regulations that is disproportional to or different from what is imposed and caused by you for the surrounding properties. This proposed addition is not greatly different than what already exists�in surrounding properties, most of whom have received many variances to exist as they are. The 980 property has more actual land area and distance from the Lake and marsh than most other properties in this area. The small difference in proposed hardcover and the proposed location deep within the 980 property should not cause ariy problem or water quality threat. The sight view of the proposed addition from our 960 residence will not be affected as long as the shed remains in its present location to act as a visual and noise barrier between the two properties (which is what we prefer). We support this proposed addition and hope the City will grant this variance for the Safars. I also hope that the City will reconsider the interpretation of Ferndale Marsh as being the same as the actual open waters of Lake Minnetonka and will only impose the 26 foot setback that has long been used and is more than adequate to protect this area. I do not believe the creation of an interpretation of a 75 foot setback from Ferndale Marsh was appropriate or correct, but as this proposed addition is not my project,this is not the appropriate time to dispute the setback interpretation issue. Thank you for the opportunity to share my views with your Planning Commission and your City CounciL Sincerely, Robert Floyd 960 West Ferndale Road Hit it out of the park with a new bat.Click now! 2