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_I. City ofCenterviUe 1880 Main Street Centerville, MN 55038 Attention City Administrator Kim Moore-Sykes May 01,2002 SUBJECT: Variance Request, Mr. & Mrs. Tracy Tratar, May 07, 2002 P & Z meeting. Dear Kim Moore-Sykes; Business issues prevent me foc attending the meeting, however I support the issuance of a variance to allow bwlding of an attacbed two-car garage. Approval of variance 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 young couple. The plots were arangerd to have garages, but for many reasons, some 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 grand fathered in to allow the same look as the rest of the neighborhood. B. This comer lot arrangement is such that a detached garage could be bwlt in the southeast comer of the lot. This southeast corner detached garage would be in direct conflict with Ordinance #4, Division 40: part C "All single-family detached dwellings shall have attached garages. " You need look to the lots south to see detached garages. This City requirement alone provides special status 10 allow a city preferred variance to have an attached garage verses a detached garage. C. The neighborhood has grown up, but since the home construction, the question has always been "when will the home be completed?" Tbe house is lacking without a double garage like all the other homes in the area. Swnmary 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 be within the layout of the current neighborhood and of the original neighborhood plotlines. I would add the addition of a timetable foc the driveway installion. The addition of a garage would require the owner to install a driveway and this would reduce the yard mud from entering the roadway. w~ Richard Thompson 1657 Peltier Lake Drive Centerville, MN 55038