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� 6/15!2007 City of Roseville Attn: Variance Board 2664 Civic Center Drive Roseville, MN 55113 Variance Application Narrative: � Tho�7las and Pamela Gross 2613 Fry Street Roseville, MN 55113 Attachment E We are requesting a variance under City Code Section 1013.02 to build an addition onto our home. The plans for our addition would result in impervious land coverage of 35% of our lot. The South side of our addition would be approximately 4 feet from our property line. We live in a 1950's rambler we purchased in 1992. The home has three bedrooms, one bathroom, a narrow first floor family room, a kitchen with a very smail eating area and an attached single car garage. Over the past several years we have contemplated moving out of the area or adding an addition to our home in an effort to add needed living/storaae space. We have looked at houses, but we like our neighborhood and would like to stay in Roseville. Our current garage is only lazge enough to fit a midsized car. Due to the width of the garage and its Iayout, passengers on the passenger side need to exit the car in the driveway, as the garage is not wide enough to a1low doors to open on both sides of the vehicie. There is no direct access from the garage to the house. In addition there is very little room to store a snow blower, Iawnmower, trash can and all the other things needed to maintain a home. We also have not had access to our backyard which has been a problem in the summer and fali as we own a tent trailer and the only place we have to set it up to load and unload it for a trip is the driveway or the front yard. This is hardly ideal and our new plan includes a garage door that will give us access to the back yard so that we can set up the camper in the back yard when needed. Our current home has an eat-in kitchen, but we can only fit a table in the kitchen large enough to fit 6 people. We really feel the need to have a larger eating area in order to have family gatherings. We plan to demolish the existing garage, narrow family room (10 X 20), small backside porch, and part of the kitchen wall (West Side). We then plan to add a first floor laundry/mud room, a 3/4's bathroom, and remodeled kitchen opening into a family/great room on the West Side. We would also be building a slightIy wider (24 ft) attached two car garage with an additional stall out the back for storage where the old garage and family room were. The garage will have access to the interior of the home thraugh the proposed laundry/mud room. We had considered building a second story instead of out the back, but that plan did not address out needs for a larger garage, a larger family room