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From: A. David Redisl- Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2UUt3 7:16 AM To: Bryan Lloyd Cc: Subject: Ke: Varfance request Bryan -- Thank you for talking to me about the variance yesterday. I don't know if you got a chance to talk to the other planning staff about it, but I wanted to let you know that I will be in and out of my office in meetings all day today. I should be able to check email regularly, however. To reiterate some of the points made in our conversation, there really is no where else on our house that we can put a sunroom. What we are really trying to do is to make the small (and honestly rather ugly) deck useful. Right now the deck is only four feet wide, which after you factor in wall-thickness, etc., makes it too small to even put a chair in. So that precludes just closing it up with walls. Re: the option of closing the back concrete "patio" on the east side of the house with walls. As I discussed with you, this has a number of problems that make it impossible to use as a sunroom. First, enclosing it would force the sunroom to effectively abut our neighbors property. I don't know what the acceptable distance is, but if we were to turn that into a sunroom, I'd feel uncomfortably close to our neighbors yard. Second, that area gets very little sun. It is blocked from the east by all of our neighbors on Ryan between Dellwood and Fernwood. It is blocked from the south by the main part of the house. It is obviously blocked from the west (by the pool extension). It is even blocked from the north by our neighbors on Dellwood. Third, it just isn't part of the flow of the house. At one time, several summers ago, I tried to make it into a space to sit outside (putting out patio chairs), and it just didn't work. It never got used and the couple of times I used it, it was very uncomfortable space. I should also mention that that's where all of our air-conditioning and other ventilation units are. Re: the option of cutting into the pool extension. Whoever built the extension with the pool did an amazing job and built a single room. But that means that the walls are structural. We really can't change any of them. The whole concept of putting the sunroom where we are suggesting is that we would not have to make any changes to the pool room. Our plan is to not mess with the wall between the sunroom-to-be and the pool extension at all. Yes, we will walk through the pool extension to the new sunroom, but there's a second-floor landing overlooking the pool that is very much part of the flow of the house. The beauty of the plan to put the sunroom where it is that we even already have an outside-quality door (to the old deck) that will lead to the sunroom. (We are not even planning to change the door.) I should also note that we can�t partition out a part of the pool extension for the same reason because in order to provide light to that partitioned-space, we'd have to cut into the walls and/or the roof. Again, that would affect the structure of the pool-extension-walls and be prohibitively expensive. Of course, most of the pool extension is taken up by the pool and making changes to that would be prohibitively expensive as well. �„� 1 ,,,,�