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5.7 Staff analysis of undue hardship factors is as follows: A. The property in question cannot be put to a reasonable use if used under conditions allowed by the official controls: Hood Packaging is a viable manufacture of plastic film and desires to remain competitive. They seek to install a plastic film extmder that is approximately 58 feet in height, requiring their existing building roof to be increased from 40 feet to 60 feet The Community Development staff has detennined that Hood Packaging could relocate to a city that allows a roof height greater than 45 feet However, this option is impractical and unreasonable. The Community Development Staff has determined that the portion of the structure at 3075 Long Lake Road currently occupied by Hood Packaging can be put to a reasonable and practical use under the official controls, if a 20 foot VARIANCE to Section 1007.01E is granted. B. The plight of the landowner is due to circumstances unique to the property not created by the landowner: The uniqueness may not lie with the property, but rather with the industry or industrial technique, in this particular case. The high-tech extmder takes hot plastic and molds it into a wide film as it travels upward in the interior of the extruder. The film cools it as it travels down where it is separated into two sheets. Each sheet of plastic film is then prepared into a large roll and readied for distribution. The state-of-the-art plastic film extruder raises the capabilities in throughput as well a quality, which changes are necessary to meet the needs of the customer and compete with the competition. There is no property "uniqueness", except that the existing roof height must be increased and the City Code prohibits a building height in an industrial district of more than 45 feet The Community Development Staff has determined that the plight of the landowner is due to circumstances unique to manufacturing process and industrial technique not created by the landowner. C. The variance, if granted, will not alter the essential character of the locality: The improvement proposed, a roof height increase to 60 feet for a small portion of the stmcture, is not an uncommon height in industrial facilities (this is a height similar to a full grown street tree or about 6 stories). The Community Development Staff has determined that this variance, if granted, will not alter the essential character of the locality, nor adversely affect the public health, safety, or general welfare, of the city or adjacent properties. PF3547 RPCA 020404 - Page 4 of 5