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� From: A. David Redish Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2UU8 8:22 AM To: Bryan Lloyd Cc: Subject: Ke: Variance application Mr. Lloyd -- � Thank you very much for your email and for talking to me yesterday. Here are our replies to your querries re our application for a variance. > I�m reviewing your variance application to get my hands around the > extent of the variance that will be necessary. One of the parts to the > variance would be allowance of excess impervious coverage: in addition > to the house footprint, diveway, and proposed addition, what is the > surface area of any sidewalks and patios at your home? In addition to the driveway, we have concrete sidewalk bordering the garage, and a concrete sidewalk behind the house, leading to a back patio for a total of 270 sq ft. [That's an estimate calculated by measuring one block and then estimating the other blocks. If necessary, I can get a specific complete layout and measurement if you need.] If necessary, we could have some of these sidewalks and patios removed. (We would prefer not to primarily for cost reasons at this point.) > Also, an important piece of your variance application is your > description of the "hardship" you're facing. The Variance Board can't > approve a variance unless you help them understand why the requirements > of the City Code don't work properly - or can't be applied fairly - to > your property. It may just be a couple of written or typed paragraphs, > but the description really is important to the variance process. First, we would like to point out that we are just replacing an old wooden deck with an enclosed sunroom. This should not change the shape of the house much. However, this is the only location that we can put the sunroom on the house based on the layout of the house. We're not sure, but it is likely that our lot is already smaller than it is supposed to be by city code. (If so, then it was when we bought the house. we have not made any structural changes to the house since we bought it.) According to the variance notice, the set-back of the house is already less than the required set-back. Unfortunately, there really is no where else on our house that we can reasonably put the sunroom. We would also like to point out that our side setback on Ryan Ave matches the front setback of all of our neighbors on Ryan. Because our house is on the corner, our side-setback on Ryan is of similar size to those of the rest of the houses' front-setbacks on Ryan. On Dellwood, the house across the street (1287 Ryan) has a much closer setback than we would have after building our sunroom. Also, both houses on Dellwood between Shryer and Skillman (1275 and 1281 Shryer and 1288 and 1274 Skillman ) and the house to the south of us (on the SE corner of Ryan and Dellwood (1270 Ryan)) have smaller setbacks than we would have after building our sunroom. When we look at the layout of our neighborhood on google maps, we 1