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City ofCenterville 1880 Main Street Centerville, MN 55038 Attention City Administrator Kim Moore-Sykes May01,2002 SUBJECT: Variance Request, Mr. & Mrs. Tracy Tratar, May 07, 2002 P & Z meeting. Dear Kii:n Moore-Sykes; Business issues prevent me for attending the meeting, however I support the issuance of a variance to allow ow1ding of an attached two-car garage. Approval ofvariance request should be tied to special circumstances: The following items are my-- reasoning to approval this variance; A. I watched this development being built twenty years ago. Most of the homes were what I call a starter home, a first home for a YOUJIg couple. The plots were arangerd to have garages, out for many reasons, SOJ:lle were not built at home construction time. As time proceeded the development's residents and Centerville grew up. I think all of the homes now have garages but this one. An example of the neighborhood setbacks and plot lines can be viewed by looking to the next lot north. These long time owners and lot should be grandfathered in to allow the same look as the rest of the neighborhood. B. ThlS comer lot lll'!1Ulgement lS such that a detached garage could oe built in the southeast corner of the lot. This southeast corner detached garage would be in direct conflict with Ordinance #4, Division 40: part C "AU single-family detached dwellings shllll have attached garages." You ueed look to the lots south to see detached garages. This City requirement alone provides special status to allow a city preferred variance to have an attached garage verses a detached garage. C.rhe neighborhood has grown up, but since the home construction, the question has always been "when will the home be completed?" The house is lacking without a double garage like all the other homes in the area. Summary I would approve special variance on the grounds; the home needs a garage to blend into the neighborhood, the city's guidelines request attached verses a detached building; the variance would te w1thfu the layout of the current neighborhood and of the original neighborhood plotlines. I would add the additiou of a timetable for the driveway installion. The additiou of a garage would require the owner to install a driveway and this would reduce the yard mud from eutering the roadway. w~ Richard Thompson 1657 Peltier Lake Drive Centerville, MN 55038