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NARR4TIVE DESCRIPTION REGARDING A REQUEST FOR SETBACK VARIAI�TCE 1828 :�ORTH DALE COURT JULY l3, 2006 Charles and Suz�nne Weleczlci at-e seelcina a setback variance re�ardinn the sii�gle familv home lot located at I 828 \TOrth Dale Cottrt. ` The Weleczlcis forrnerly lived at l 822 North Dale Court immediately adjacent to the south of the subject lot for over 30 years. After raisin� nine children, they retired last year and due to health concerns (A�rs. Weleczki has bee�il battling colon and lung cancer �nd Mr. Weleczki has severe diabetes), they moved to ai1 apartmeilt co�nple� on Victoria Street in 2005. In order to facilitate selling tlieir homestead, the Weleczkis applied for aild receive�d a minor subdivision approval in 2005 whereby the subject lot at 182� North Dale Court �l�as split from t11e original hoinestead at 1822 North Dale Court. The Weleczlcis then sold their homestead and moved to their apartment in late su��n�e�r 2005. The �'eleczkis have had the subject lot listed with a real estate company since the minor subdivision �vas apprc�ve�i iii 20G5. Tiiey lia-ve had iiuiilerous inte�ested pa�ties and not ;ess than si;: (C} pw-chase agreenlents l�ave been submitted by potential buyers. Unfortunately, due to the unique triangular shape of the subject lot, the buyers have had a difficultv in developing practical plans for a home design that can be built on the site «�ithout the need for setback variances. This has resulted in all purchase agreements bein� cancelled or resciilded. To date, the Weleczkis have been unable to sell the lot due to these practical difficulties in making a design plan for a home «-ithout setback variances. The potential lot buyers have indicated that the current unique shape of the lot iinposes practic�al difficulties on the home design such that a typical standard home design plan �vill not �-ork. Potential buyers are unable to desi�n hallways and rooms on the tuiique triangular site such that the new home would be practically useable. The V��eleczkis are not home builders oi• real estate developers and to clate they have merely sou�ht to sell the lot to someone ��-ho can make ��ood use of it. Ho«�ever, they have no�v concluded that in order to sell the lot and in order to overcome dze practical difficulties of ineeting all set back requirements on the unique trian�ular shaped lot, the best option is to seelc a setback variance so that a home witl� a traditional design plan and lay�ut itlay be constructed on the lot. A boundary survey showing the dimeilsions o� the lot as split ��as submitted ii1 2005 in conjunction ��ith the ininor subdivision application. Attached to tl�e application is a schematic of a possible footprii�t of a single family home structure for the ne�v lot. While it would be physicall_y possible to construct a very uniquely designe�d single fan7ily home on a building pad on the subject lot dlat wotlld meet all set back requirements, tlie attached schematic sho�vs a plan for a more traditional single familv home design that ��oti►ld re�quire only minor relalation of set back requirements on the East and West sides of the lot and in which standard room sizes, l�allways and entrances could be built.