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City of Centerville March 18, 1994 Village Hall 1880 Main Street To the Planning and Zoning Commission; This letter is from Lloyd and Diane Hansen and Erick and LyNae Marshall (Lloyd and Diane are parents of LyNae). We are the people who have purchased the lot on Centerville Lake bordering Sorel Street and right next to Mr. and Mrs. LaMotte's Home. We've requested variances from six sections of two ordinances in order to allow us to split the lot and build our two homes as single family dwellings. The Planning and Zoning Commission held a public hearing and then met for 'several hours, on March 1st, to discuss our requested variances. The Commission then tabled our request until their next meeting scheduled for April 5th, 1994. We very much appreciate the time and attention the Commission has given to our request. The purpose of this letter is to clarify why we still feel the Commission (and eventually the City Council) should seriously consider granting the variances. This letter will attempt to summarize how we view the situation to date and answer the concems voiced by the Commission at the March 1st. meeting. We would like to accomplish this by addressing the four standards that variances should conform to (65.03 -1 thru 65.03 -4, see attachment l): First, with respect to standard 65.03 -1. The lot we purchased is the only one remaining, in the city and on the lake, that cannot be subdivided in accordance with the lot size ordinance (i.e. 100 ft. lot widths). However, our lot is large enough (over 32,000 sq. ft.) to more than meet the minimum size for two single family dwellings (15,000 +15,000=30,000sq.ft.). To our knowledge, all other undeveloped lake property is at least 200 ft. frontage or less than required square footage. it is also an irregular shape (see attachment II). The items listed above, we feel, define the special conditions and circumstances peculiar tb our lot that did not result from our actions. Second, standard 65.03 -2 states that if literal interpretation of the ordinances would deprive us of rights commonly enjoyed by other properties, then a variance may be issued. We know there are many lots on Centerville Lake and Pettier Lake that are less than 100 feet wide. We realize that most of these lots were subdivided prior to the ordinance being inacted. However, we would hope that the Commission view this lake lot as unique in that it was formed long before the ordinances and has never really been developed even though there have been many false starts. Thirdly, standard 65.03 -3 wants to make sure that the variances, we're asking for, do not confer on us special privileges denied to others. This is a little tougher to address in that we cannot forsee what others might request in the