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. . 3800 square feet (58 percent of the lot area is impervious surface). It appears that the accessory building on the property was constructed prior to the house, and may have been used for living space as the house was being constructed. The accessory building is located approximately three feet from the house, five feet from the west property line, and 20 feet from the OHWL of Lake Josephine. 2.4 The new addition would be set back five feet from the west property line and 20 feet from the OHWL of Lake Josephine. The new addition will provide the applicant's with additional living space, including a solarium, an extra bedroom, and an office area. One of the bedrooms in the existing two bedroom home is used as office space by Mrs. Sellars. The addition will provide a spare bedroom for guests and office space for Mr. Sellars, as well as a solarium area. The Sellars considered the option of converting the accessory building to living space; however, the condition of the building and problematic nature of connecting it to the main house made this option infeasible. This option would have also required a variance from the setback requirement because it would change the structure from an accessory structure to part of the principal structure. The applicant's architect has prepared drawing for the addition which extends the existing roof lines and includes skylights. With the new addition in place of the detached accessory structure, the total impervious lot coverage increases to 4413 (68 percent of the lot area). 2.5 Section 1016.13, City Code, classifies Lake Josephine as a Minnesota Department of Natural Resources designated general development lake. All land within 1000' of the OHWL of a protected body of water is included within the shoreland management district for that water body. Section 1 016.16A requires a structure setback of 75 feet from the OHWL within a shoreland management district. The front yard (street side) setback and side yard setbacks in a shoreland area are the same as the underlying zoning district. Section 1004.020 requires a front yard setback of 30 feet in an R-1 zoning district and Section 1012.01 B requires a side yard setback of five feet for lots in R-1 zoning districts that were lots of record on May 21, 1959. As this is the requirement for the underlying zoning district, the five foot side yard setback would apply to this parcel. Since the existing structure does not meet the setback requirements, it is classified as a non-conforming structure. Section 1016.22 requires all additions or expansions to the outside dimensions of a nonconforming structure to meet the setback, height and other requirements of Sections 1016.14 through 1016.16. Any deviation from these requirements may only be authorized as a variance pursuant to Section 1016.20. Section 1 016.26B indicated that the impervious surface coverage of a site shall not exceed twenty-five percent of the site area unless storm water is conveyed to an approved on-site or regional storm water ponding/retention facility designed to accommodate the increased run-off prior to discharge from the site into public waters or wetlands. PF#2925 - RPCA (07/09/97) - Page 2 of 4