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<br /> ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL - OCTOBER 10, 2006 5 <br />. Councilmember Holden asked what was in the plan Mr. Lis submitted. Mr. Lehnhoff stated <br /> that the building plan provided by Mr. Lis showed the driveway as being a crushed rock <br /> driveway, which was marked as approved by the building department. He noted the plan did not <br /> include the two access driveway however. <br /> Councilmember Holden asked when the building permit had been closed out. Mr. Lehnhoff <br /> responded the building pernlit has not becn closed out. <br /> Brad Lis, 1548 Arden Place, stated they believed the crushed gravel had been approved by the <br /> City. He stated they had changed the configuration of the driveway along the way with the <br /> thought that they were doing it with the approval of the City. He stated the first time they knew <br /> they had an issue about this was a few weeks ago. He believed the driveway tit nicely into the <br /> neighborhood. He noted the driveway had been there for over three years. He believed this <br /> would constitute a hardship because of the loss of trees. He noted there were other instances of <br /> the two driveway access and he believed it added a nice feature to the neighborhood. He asked <br /> Council to grant this variance request. <br /> Councilmember Holden asked how many two access driveways were in the neighborhood. Mr. <br /> Lehnhoff responded there were at least two driveways in the neighborhood that had dual <br /> accesses. <br /> Sarah Lis, 1548 Arden Place, stated there were six residcnces in this area that had double <br />. access driveways. She noted this was a large percentage of driveways in the neighborhood. She <br /> indicated there were other double accesses outside of this neighborhood also. <br /> Councilmember Grant asked if the City had not done the Siems Court road project, if it was <br /> quite likely this would not have been discovered and the driveway would have existed for years. <br /> Mr. Lehnhoff responded he believed this would have been caught at some point because thc <br /> building inspector has been catching up with the building permits, but it was the road project that <br /> brought this to the City's attention. <br /> Councilmember Grant asked if the City stamped this as approvcd, wouldn't that be considercd <br /> a variance. Mr. Lehnhoff responded legally it was not a variance. <br /> Councilmember Grant stated he was familiar with this neighborhood and a number of those <br /> residents did have dual access driveways, including the residents across the street from the <br /> applicant. <br /> Mayor Aplikowski stated this was a difficult one because they were balancing this with the <br /> letter of the law and thcir own practicalities. With respect to the double driveway, she saw no <br /> reason for it not to be al10wed at this point. She stated to go back now and remove the double <br /> driveway would not make sense. She indicated this did not impact any of the neighbors and did <br /> not affect the neighborhood. She noted they had received support fi'om the neighbors in support <br /> of this variancc also. <br />. <br />
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