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City Planner City of Roseville 2660 Civic Center Drive Rosevillet MN 55113 Dear Mr. Paschke: We are enclosing a Variance Application Form, for a variance to front yard width, and a completed Division of Land Application Form, with respect to our property located at 3103 Asbury Street, Lots 6 and 7, Block 10, Arden Hills No.3, City of Roseville. We are also enclosing the required fees and a recent Certificate of Survey of our property showing the location of the buildings on this property. We will be selling our property and moving into Applewood Pointe in summer/late summer 2004. We are requesting variance to the minimum front yard width of 85 feet so that the part of Lot 7 on the south side of our house could be used to build a properly designed, single-family dwelling appropriate to this neighborhood, while meeting the building setback requirements. Weare requesting the variance at this time for the following reasons: (1) Realtors that we are interviewing point out that astute prospective buyers will want to know if that part of Lot 7 either is, or is not, a buildable lot. (2) The unfortunate location of the buildings on Lots 6 and 7 was established by the original builders and owners, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond E. Johnson in the early 1950's, and evidently approved by The City of Roseville, which existed at that time. We purchased the property from the Johnson's in 1963 exactly as it is today, and thus the location of the house and garage on the lots was beyond our control. (3) To our knowledge, our property is the only double lot in this Roseville neighborhood. (4) If the variance is approved, the lot width would be approximately 69 feet with a 200 foot depth, or about 13,800 square feet, which is well in excess of the minimum lot area of 11,000 square feet. (5) One of the expressed purposes of the Applewood Pointe project is to keep seniors in the community while freeing up their homes for new, young families. We fully agree with this philosophy, and approving the request for variance would allow two new families to move into Roseville rather than only one. We respectfully request your favorable consideration of our proposed variance to front yard width on Lot 7 of our property. If approved, it would not only help to correct some poor judgnfents of land-use made over 50 years ago, but also would permit another single-family residence to be built in one of Roseville's fmest neighborhoods. Thank you very much. Sincerely, ~,~ Irene B. Albertson EncIs. 7/~/)\ ~ Vernon D. Albertson