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Based on the information in the above paragraph,we request that the rock and fill placed on the south side of the driveway for the purposes of building a planter,as referenced in your item#4,would be allowed to stay as part of our land alteration permit#2012-01221 With regard to item#2 in your letter,we agree that the work involved in the project covered by permit #2011-01360 has not yet been completed. As per the conversation we had with you late fall of 2012, we will need to have some final grading work done once conditions allow in the spring of 2013 and would then plan to have the driveway blacktopped. We have done the work required for wetland buffer establishment,and will work with the city to get this permit closed out as soon as conditions allow. With regard to item#3 in your letter,we are responding with the following observations and requests; 1) The as-built survey was not required of us when the home was built and we do not feel it should be a requirement to receive the final certificate of occupancy. The items that were communicated to us that needed to be completed to receive the final occupancy have long been completed and a survey was not one of them. We have incurred a lot of cost in providing surveys over the last couple of years and we do not feel it is neither necessary nor fair to require us to provide yet another survey. 2) We will provide an as-built survey for the land alteration permit issued for driveway changes as soon as we are able to get that project completed(see above paragraph). 3) We believe the survey information provided with land alteration permit application#2012-01221 provides adequate information given the scope of this project. To require a full-scale survey for these very minor changes is in no way practical and should not be necessary. You would double the cost of this project by requiring a full-scale survey,which is not justified. We are not impacting wetland or wetland buffer areas,and the original complete survey done with our building permit#P09168(you have on file)provides the current information that you need regarding topography and wetland-related boundaries. What other areas could we be possibly impacting with such minor alterations? We request that you would apply a more practical approach to what you are asking of us. The survey requirements requested are the same as you would require on a full-scale building project. Again,we don't see how that can be justified for such a minor land alteration. Please let us know if you have further questions. Sincerely, Scott&Michelle Miller Attachments: MCWD Letter Drawings 1 and 2 and copies of pertinent documents RECEIVED APR 4 2013 CITY OF ORONO