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Appeal Against the Setback Permit for 2940 Old Highway 8 To the Roseville City Counsel, via the City Manager, per section 1013.05, Procedure for Setback Permit, subsection 11, of Ordinance 1215, we, Keith Hauer-Lowe and Loralee Kerr, the owners of the property at 2948 Old Highway 8, are appealing against the grant of a Setback Permit for the side yard of the property immediately south of ours at 2940 Old Highway 8, owned by Todd and Kim Kaus,.because of the following reasons. We were not informed of the application: The city (Thomas Paschke) maintains that we were sent a letter infonning us of the application for the penn it, the permit application, and the date of the associated hearing, but we never received this letter (we were on vacation when the letter was sent and had our'mail on hold; we retrieved the held mail the day after our return but never saw a letter from the City of Roseville--that day was the Monday before the Thursday hearing for the Setback Pennit). Our neighbors said they were surprised that we did not appear at the hearing, indicating that they expected we would object or at least be concerned (this was after we found out that the Setback Pennit had already been approved). Our neighbors never infonned us of anything about their plans beyond some vague descriptions about the proposed work. We always assumed it would be within the default, 10' setback for R-l zoned properties. They said that they assumed that the city would infonn us--which it failed to do. At the very least the process should have been restarted, and this appeal should not have been required, since the premise for the appeal--proper notification and a hearing with all the concerned parties did not occur. We have had only five days to become familiar with the application for the Setback Pennit and to prepare an appeal. As an aside, this lack of notification has caused unnecessary stress for us and, presumably, for our neighbors as well. September 12, 1999 Page 1 of5