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\I. "' rJ2~ ~ ~~ 5'B ~ October 13, 1999 City ofRoseville 2660 Civic Center Drive Roseville, MN 55113 Re: 2940 Old Highway 8 Dear Mr. Steven Sarkozy; We are writing this letter to express how upset we are with the way the City Council Members handled our setback permit issue. The initial contact back in March and thereatter had seemed to be going just fine and led us to believe that with recent ordinance changes, the setback permit would be obtainable, as long as we stayed within the 7 foot allowed encroachment. In March, I contacted the city ofRoseville and spoke with Thomas Paschke in regards to a garage addition to our home. On March 25, 1999 we received the letter from the city along with the current ordinance regarding accessory buildings. Weare unsure why the documentation sent to us was for accessory buildings when we specifically indicated that we were going to tear down the single attached garage and add a 2 12 attached garage. In the letter it required us to get a survey, therefore we obtained on at a cost of$500. We then hired a builder to design our remodeling project and incurred a cost of$500 for initial drafting of blue prints. With the design and the excavating needs that we were going to do, the removal of trees were also necessary. We incurred costs of$3408 for tree and stump removal. With constant communication with Mr. Paschke and the timing that we needed to have everything done, we needed to re-organize financing to be able to finance the project. We had to obtain an appraisal on our property at the cost of$150 and banking fees totaling $258. On July 30, 1999 we submitted our drawings and the permit application along with our $25 fee. August 17, 1999 the city planning meeting was held to review our application and a permit hearing was scheduled for September 2, 1999. On September 2, 1999 Kim and Chad Davies attended the hearing and the DRC approved our permit and gave Chad Davies, our builder representative, the building permit application. On September 3, 1999, our neighbor, Keith Hauer-Lowe, came to our home to express his surprise to the approval of the permit without his knowledge and consent. In numerous conversations with Thomas Paschke, Kim expressed concern about the neighbor and Mr. Paschke indicated that it was the cities responsibility to notify the adjacent homeowners