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Attachment C Dear Mr. Mrosla, Community Development Manager/City Planner, and Mr Hartmann, Associate Planner Please consider this revised proposal for Planning Case 20-004 (1741 Venus Avenue Variance), in response to our initial variance request being tabled by the City Council on May 26th 2020. We appreciate the flexibility allowed us by the City Council to submit a revised plan without having to restart the process from the beginning. In the time since the May City Council meeting, we considered two options for our revised plan. First, modifying the plan to include a roof, making the structure a covered porch. Second, reducing the requested setback relief to what we felt would be the minimum required to meet our needs. We decided that a covered porch was not a viable option for our situation. Extending a roof over a covered porch on the south side of our house would block too much sunlight from the two windows we have in area of the proposed porch. We have decided to pursue the second option for our revised plan. Our revised plan requests a setback allowance of 33' instead of the 34' allowed for a deck in the front yard (see Figure 7). Our initial proposal was for a 28' setback. This variance will allow us to ensure a safe access to the front door(including access for emergency responders—see Figure 8) given the unique circumstance of a front door raised several feet from the ground (see Figures 3, 4, 5) The proposed deck is 1' closer to the property line than allowed without the variance (Figure 7). The deck will still be 48' from the street (due to the 15' right- of-way) and thus would not give the appearance of being too close to the street. The setback for the revised deck plan is 33' from the property line (initial plan was 285) and 48'from the street (initial plan was 435) (Figure 7). The square footage of the revised deck plan is now 288 sq ft (initial plan was 370 sq ft) and is less than the existing deck structure (298 sq ft) (see Figure 6). Please see the tables below comparing the existing structure, our initial proposal, and the revised proposal. Note: Since our initial proposal, we excavated the property line stake and found it to be 15' from the street instead of the 15.5' in the initial proposal. • Distance of Deck from Street, Curb and Property line: =rom From Inside From Droperty Distances (all at closests point) Uni-is Street of Curb Line Comment House ft 55.5 53.5 40.5 Existing Existing I]eck ft 51.7 49.7 36.7 Existing Existing Bridge ft 26.2 24.2 11.2 Existing Initial Proposal -Deck ft 43.5 41.5 28.5 6.5'Variance Initial Proposal -Bridge/Stairs ft 26.2 24.2 11.2 Same as Existing Revised Proposal - Deck ft 48 46 33 1' Variance Revised Proposal - Bridge/Stairs ft 1 26.2 24.2 1 11.2 Same as Existing • Area of Total Structure: Total Deck/Walkway/Bridge/Stair Area Units Existing ft^2 298 Intial Proposal ft^2 370 Revised Proposal ft^2 288