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~... - ... ~16 January 23. 1995 Mike Falk. City Planner City of Roseville 2660 Civic Center Drive Roseville. Minnesota 55113 Dear Sir. Your response to my complaint in my letter to steve Sarkozy dated 12729/94 was completely unsatisfactory, and in fact brought up further troubling questions. If in fact, as you state, the minor variance review process typicallY involves the notification of all affected contiguous land owners, then in fact it was the responsibility of that committee to notify me befo!~ accepting any plans that involved a redefining of the front yard of the property and the granting of a subsequent 10 foot setback variance. You stated that you overlooked notifying me because this was a corner lot and the Minor Variance Committee was redefining the front yard. Did every member of the committee also overlook this notification? Was there some ~ to push this process along. and if so, what was it? It's obvious to anyone that the only way this bEmQ will go on this lot is as shown. facing Dale Street. rrherefore the notifi- cation to my neighbor to the west is and was irrelevant. Since when is a variance granted before ever seeing or studying the building plans. This plan should never have been approved with- out my notification, and, by your ~ rules. you know it. Your letter belabors a side yard setback allowing a building to be legally 5 feet from my property line. The likelihood of any- one doing any~hin~ ~hat stupid on ~hat lot is remote. However, for the sake of such convoluted reasoning, and in the event someone did build a home facing the Carlyle right-of-way or future street. I still wouldn't have a 61 foot wall of residence with an in-roy-face stance 19 feet from my property line. Most side yards have a garage. driveway,or narrow, minimal windowed portion of the residence there anyway. Most important of all, there are no consistent setbacks along Dale Street. To make that argument here is both arbitrary and capricious. . This hom,e, which overpowers this lot, could and should have been built 10 feet west of its current location.