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� OHO Brian Kerber 740 Orchard Park Rd. RECEIVE® Orono, Mn. 55356 January 17, 2006 JAN 1 9 ?006 To the City of Orono, CITY OF ORONO I want to thank you for getting back to me with your letter on January 4m. I have read it over and find that you skipped over the most important issue, the permit for the 12 x 12 shed. I have no problem with the removal of the Lean to roof, as you determined it was not legal, and it is the roof for the 12 x 12 shed anyway. But when you tell me to take it down and then take away the legal permit for the 12 x 12 shed,what am I supposed to do? As I stated in my last letter, I have already purchased this shed. I feel you are ignoring this fact. You have put me in a very bad situation that I feel I do not deserve to be in, nor should I have to be defending. To give me a permit for a 12 x 12 shed and then AFTER I buy it and plan around this space,you tell me you made a mistake is frankly just plain wrong and disrespectful to me. Obviously neither of us remembered the signing of Resolution 4504,or you would not have given me a permit for the 12 x 12 shed to begin with, but you did. And I was not trying to get away with something. If that was the case I would have put the 12 x 12 shed up immediately after the permit was issued. The fact is that Resolution 4504 was the City of Orono agreeing to deprive me of my legal rights of 4,000 sq. ft. total, because of 160 sq. ft. extra on one building and then limit my second building to 22 x 24 (528 sq. ft.) when I only asked for 32 x 24 (768 sq. fr.) I feel I should never have been deprived of this to begin with. Now I thank the city for allowing the 2,000 sq. ft. to be 2,160, and I paid for a variance. But I do not feel it is right for 160 sq. ft.extra to take away 1,300 sq. ft. from my total. I feel that the City of Orono is one of the best cities I have lived in and I appreciate that there are restrictions. Orono has a great group of people running things and Lyle you have always been very helpful on all my permits and questions on fences. I think I might have a simple solution to all of this. I am asking the city to allow me to add an upper level to my existing 22 x 24 hobby shop.This could solve the issue of additional space that I need and to use the materials I had already purchased for the 12 x 12 shed. This would not add any sq. ft. onto the footprint of the property. I am willing to take the lean to roof off right away, but I am not going to take it down until this problem is resolved, as it might turn out to be the solution.So I ask that you please stop with the deadline threats, I did not create this problem and I do not feel I deserve to be treated this way. I am just trying to be fair and come up with a solution we can all live with. Sincerely, Brian Kerber