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Narrative for variance for the property owned by Jim Paal and Kathy Kartheiser-Paal at 1413 Millwood Ave, Roseville, MN. The house is a 1955 rambler that has had additions added to the back of the house and between the house and the garage. We believe the additions were done in the '50s or '60s. We purchased the house in 2000 and have made no external changes to the main structure of the house. We currently have a small, attached .1-car garage on the east end of our house. Our variance request is for a double garage. We propose building a 20-foot x 20-foot addition on the house directly in front of the current garage, to be used as a double car garage. It's east wall would sit 3 feet to the east of the existing garage, which would also be widened by 3 feet to allow the roof lines to come together correctly. It would then extend 3.5 feet past the west side of the current garage and end just before a window in our den, the only window in that room. It would extend into the front yard 20 feet to a point 24 feet from the south/front property line. We are requesting a front yard setback variance allowing us to extend from the front of our house 20 feet to a point 24 feet from the south property line and a side yard setback variance allowing us to go to within 3 feet of the east property line. The side yard variance could be accomplished with a setback permit, but since a front yard variance is needed, we are requesting it be included with the front yard variance. Our yard is a cone shape with a front lot width of 85 feet and a back lot width of 65 feet. The length of our house and garage is 60 feet so there is not an option of putting a driveway on either side of the house. Our two options for a double garage would be to: Option 1: Build a detached garage in the back yard Option 2: Build an attached garage added to the front of the house. Both options would require a variance. Option 1 To add a detached garage we would need to tear down the current garage, and extend the driveway through the current garage and at least 34 additional feet into the back yard to a point 6 feet beyond the house. We also would loose the storage space that at least part of the old garage would provide. This plan would require a variance of the Maximum Total Surface Area allowed in the Roseville City Code, as it would take us from our current 25.3% to 33.1 % impervious coverage. It would require us to loose a large portion of our back yard and create an unusually long driveway (over 100 feet from curb). Option 2 (Our preference) Build a front yard attac~ed garage. The bulk of the new garage would be over the existing driveway, so we would not increase our impervious coverage extensively (approximately 28.1 % total). It would require the loss of 1 tree, which we would replace farther south on the