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Home My WebLink AboutRE: working with City re deck ti � Christine Mattson From: Lili McMillan Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 10:24 AM To: Christine Mattson Cc: Jessica Loftus Subject: FW: 4156 Highwood Road Orono, MN Hi Chris, When you get a moment, can you give me a call and give me some background on this issue? Thanks, • Lili Lili McMillan Mayor, City of Orono Orono, Minnesota 612-840-8484 From: Foster, Eric [Eric.Foster@ngam.natixis.com] Sent:Thursday, May 24, 2012 9:27 PM To: Lili McMillan Subject: Re: 4156 Highwood Road Orono, MN Hi Lili, Thank you for getting back to me so quickly. I am traveling for business in Wisconsin this week and will be back in town tomorrow. I could talk tomorrow at 130PM if you are still around before the holiday weekend. We did not submit a variance application because we have done the math and can see that we wouldn't meet the structural coverage or hard cover rules. We can't pay$700.00 for application, $1200 for a survey, and $2500 for escrow when we have a survey already and know we don't meet the requirements. We are stuck. Eric J. Foster, CIMA VP, Managing Regional Director Midwest Territory Natixis Global Asset Management 399 Boylston St, Boston MA 02116 Ce11:617-372-4045 Fax:617-425-9088 eric.foster@ngam.natixis.com On May 24, 2012, at 7:33 PM, "Lili McMillan" <LMcmillan@ci.orono.mn.us>wrote: > Hi Eric, > I would be glad to talk with you over the phone about this. i ! > Before we talk, I need to know if you submitted a variance application and went in front of the planning commission or was this just handled with the Orono planning department? > I am assuming that you have an issue with hardcover. Let me know if that is the case. >Also let me know what is a good time to talk. >Thanks, > Lili > > > Lili McMillan > Mayor, City of Orono >Orono, Minnesota >612-840-8484 > > From: Foster, Eric [Eric.Foster@ngam.natixis.com] >Sent:Thursday, May 24, 2012 9:47 AM >To: Lili McMillan >Subject: 4156 Highwood Road Orono, MN > > Dear Lili, > > Please see my email below detailing my families recent experience in dealing with the City of Orono. We would appreciate any response you may have. > >Thank you, > > Eric > > > > Dear Chris, > >After hours of conversation with you and the staff at the city of Orono planning commission we have no choice but to try and sell our recently purchased lake house on lake Minnetonka. Do to your complete unwillingness to work with us and lack of effort to even understand our situation,our dreams of a family lake house on lake Minnetonka have been shattered. > >The living level of the house on the lake side is about 10 to 15 feet off the ground and without a deck the house is literally unusable. There is no place for our 2 and 4 year old daughters to go safely other then down on the lower lawn with out a deck. We have no place to enjoy our view of the lake, have a bbq, or entertain friends and family. > >We have put our blood, sweat,tears, hearts, and hard earned money into this lake house only to have the experience ripped away from us by orono's unreasonable policies. We put hours and hours into the property since we purchased it in February of 2012. New roof, new paint, hours of clean up and fix up, all for nothing. We understand the rules and the need for them but in this case it's so simple and so obvious if somebody would have taken the time to come out to the property you could easily how reasonable our request is. > 2 , � >Whats even more depressing and emotional for us is that everyone else on our street has a deck facing the lake and they have bigger homes then ours on similar size lots. We may not have the most expensive house on the lake but we take pride in what we have made out there. We are honest, hard working, caring, and tax paying members of the community and feel we are being treated with complete disrespect and being pushed aside. We were only trying to build a safe/functional deck on the lake side of the house so we could have a chance at enjoying the biggest investment we have ever made in our lives. > >The policies of the city of orono create such a financial burden to build a simple deck (no different then every other house on the entire lake)they we have been forced to put our hopes and dreams up for sale. > > Please click this link and look at this listing. Look where their > "new deck" is located and please tell me why we shouldn't be >devastated and frustrated to the point where we can no longer attempt >to fight this battle ? new listing in mound ><http://www.misfinder.com/mn_rmis/carrieschmitz/index.cfm?action=listi > ng_detail&property_id=4153819&searchkey=7c4f1d63-a0f0-e6d8-8c6c-25ee8f >345b98> ><http://www.misfinder.com/mn_rmis/carrieschmitz/index.cfm?action=listi > ng_detail&property_id=4153819&searchkey=7c4f1d63-a0f0-e6d8-8c6c-25ee8f >345b98> > http://www.misfinder.com/mn_rmis/carrieschmitz/index.cfm?action=listin >g_detail&property_id=4153819&searchkey=7c4f1d63-a0f0-e6d8-8c6c-25ee8f3 >45b98 > > It has been an emotional and stressful several weeks where we have lost sleep, lost productivity at work, and sacrificed our happiness all to get the door slammed in our face by your department. > >We are deeply saddened and regretful that we even attempted to have a lake house in the city of orono, mn in the first place. > >We thought it was important for you to know how we feel and know how much damage your department has done to our family over the past several weeks. > > Eric > > Eric J. Foster, CIMA >VP, Managing Regional Director > Midwest Territory > > Natixis Global Asset Management >399 Boylston St, Boston MA 02116 >Cel1:617-372-4045 > Fax:617-425-9088 >eric.foster@ngam.natixis.com<mailto:eric.foster@ngam.natixis.com> > > > >This email and any attachments may contain confidential information. 3 ' ` > If you are not the intended recipient, please delete the email, notify >the sender, destroy all copies and do not redistribute. Note that >confidentiality rights are not waived due to incorrect transmission. > > Natixis Global Asset Management consists of NGAM Distribution, L.P., > NGAM Advisors, L.P., NGAM, LLC, NGAM S.A., and business development > units located across the globe, each of which is an affiliate of > Natixis Global Asset Management,S.A. > >This material should not be considered a solicitation to buy or an >offer to sell any product or service to any person in any jurisdiction >where such activity would be unlawful. 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