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._ ,... ...�- <br />Bryan Lloyd <br />To: cindi.linell@gmail.com <br />Subject: setback permit plans <br />Hi Cindi. <br />I've been discussing your home improvement plans with the Community Development Department <br />staff and we find ourselves in a little bit of a bind. Everybody thinks you've got a great <br />project (not to mention a very nice sketch of the front of the house), but we're having a <br />hard time figuring out how to proceed. The snag is this: from our information, your house <br />appears to stand exactly 30 feet from the front property line, which means that a setback <br />permit can work for an addition that encroaches up to 6 feet into the front yard setback, <br />but anything beyond that requires a variance. <br />The setback permit application would accommodate the living room expansion, but because <br />the covered walkway to the new front door would need footings, which are shown out in <br />front of the proposed addition, those footings cannot be included in a setback permit <br />approval unless they're in line with the front of the house. This would mean that the only <br />way to get these plans approved as presented would be to go through the more formal <br />variance process. We certainly don't want to discourage the nice architectural details <br />you're proposing, but we also don't want to make you go through the variance process for <br />such a minor detail; unfortunately, however, the City Code doesn't leave us any options. <br />You have a couple possible choices, though. If you pull back the front end of the covered <br />walkway so that the footings would be in line with the rest of the expansion, you maintain <br />the aesthetic details without needing a variance. Or if your builder can find a way to <br />keep the covered walkway as it's currently shown but eliminate the need for footings we <br />might be able to avoid the variance process that way as well. Or if you can provide <br />evidence that the house stands more than 30 feet from the front property line we may be <br />able to squeeze a little more out of the setback permit and avoid the variance process <br />that way. <br />Bryan Lloyd <br />Associate City Planner <br />City of Roseville <br />651-792-7073 <br />bryan.11oyd@ci.roseville.mn.us <br />1 <br />