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is most of the existing garage, the location driveway, and options available. These options include: a detached garage in the rear yard that would be pennitted without the need for a variance or conditional use pennit, but does not centralize storage and creates inconveniences during inclement weather. A rear yard detached garage would reduce the size of the applicant's back yard and come close to maximizing impervious coverage on the parcel. Further, the addition could be placed at the rear of the existing garage (east/west fashion) but would create a difficult design and look out of character with the home. 5.5 The applicants will also build a second-story master bedroom and study over the existing attached garage to increase their living area. This proposal does not require approvals by the City Council. 5.5 Section 1013.02 states: 'Where there are practical difficulties or unusual hardships in the way of carrying out the strict letter of the provisions of this code, the city council shall have the power, in a specific case and after notice and public hearings, to vary any such provision in harmony with the general purpose and intent thereof and may impose such additional conditions as it considers necessary so that the public health, safety, and general welfare may be secured and substantial justice done. 5.6 State Statute 462.357, subd. 6 (2) provides authority for the city to "hear requests for variances from the literal provisions of the ordinance in instances where their strict enforcement would cause undue hardship because of circumstances unique to the individual property under consideration, and to grant such variances only when it is demonstrated that such actions will be in keeping ,vith the spirit and intent of the ordinance. "Undue hardship" as used in connection with the granting of a variance means the property in question cannot be put to a reasonable use if used under conditions allowed by the official controls, the plight of the landowner is due to circumstances unique to the property not created by the landowner, and the variance, if granted, will not alter the essential character of the locality. Economic considerations alone shall not constitute an undue hardship if reasonable use for the property exists under the terms ofthe ordinance....The board or governing body as the case may be may impose conditions in the granting of variances to insure compliance and to protect" 5.7 Staff analysis of undue hardship factors is as follows: A. The property in question cannot be put to a reasonable use ifused under conditions allowed by the official controls: The Holmgren/Distad parcel is afforded two options that can meet the required setback of the Roseville City Code, but these locations have been detennined to be impractical and unreasonable. A third stall attachment to the rear of the existing garage will create design challenges and appear out PF3545 - RPCA 020404 - Page 3 of 5