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Attachment C <br />1945 Edgewater Ave Variance Request <br />Written Statement <br />8/16/2023 <br />Arden Hills Planning Commission, City Council, and city staff, <br />Thank you for considering this request for a variance at my home located at 1945 Edgewater <br />Ave. My wife, two kids, and I live at this location. We recently moved from 1995 Jerrold Ave just <br />one block over in order to better support my son and his special needs. <br />We are a community -oriented family that resides at the house where the porposed changes <br />would occur. We are connected to our neighbors, involved in the city, I run a nonprofit serving <br />children in Minnesota, and we regularly help neighbors with various home and yard projects. <br />We have been residents of Arden Hills since 2015 and I also attended Bethel University for my <br />undergraduate degree. <br />I share the above because I want to try to communicate that our family, like you, value the city <br />of Arden Hills and its community and neighborhood feel. We recognize the importance of the <br />purposes of the zoning districts (1320.04 Subd. 2) and why variances are sometimes needed. In <br />the proposed work, we will maintain the intent of the Residential-2 District Zoning of single and <br />two family housing with limited density and restriction of incompatible uses. We will also <br />maintain the beautiful open space of Arden Hills including our yard, which is why the proposed <br />work removes a very small amount of open space: 64 sft that is currently concrete and 64 sft <br />that is currently landscape rock and three relatively small bushes. <br />My understanding from the helpful city staff is that a variance is needed due to the location of <br />the existing garage, which is closer than 40 feet from the East property line. As you can see in <br />the included documentation, the proposed addition to the garage will be approximately 4 feet <br />further from the East property line than the existing garage structure. Therefore, we are not <br />requesting an increase of the nonconformity of the structure in relation to distance from the <br />property line. Additionally, the garage - which I expect was built over 50 years ago based on the <br />structural design — is located in relation to the property line similar to those of the <br />neighborhood (see attachment #1). So, while the garage does not confirm to the zoning, it isn't <br />an eyesore in the neighborhood by any means. <br />The Variance Procedures and Application Requirements document provided to me by city staff <br />lists six criteria used for review of variance applications. I have addressed each of the six criteria <br />below. <br />CRITERIA FOR REVIEW. <br />1. The property in question cannot be put to a reasonable use if used under conditions <br />allowed by the official controls, <br />The purpose of the proposed work is so that my wife and I can both park our vehicles <br />inside the garage. The inside width of the garage is currently approximately 18'. While <br />both vehicles can technically fit inside this width there is not room to open the door in <br />order to get out of the vehicles. The proposed bump outs on each side of the garage will <br />
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