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Attachment C November 11, 2014 City of Roseville 2600 Civic Center Drive Roseville, MN 55113 RE: Variance Request—Supplemental Background Information 365 Owasso Boulevard South PIN# 012923120072 Dear City Staff/Variance Board: Outline of Reauert Zawadski Homes, Inc., on behalf of our client, Adele Kaufman, requests a variance to the hard surface coverage limitation on the above lot. Applicant proposes to use pervious pavers for the driveway, and seeks a "credit" for the areas using pervious pavers. The lot is 12,908 square feet in size, the lot is long and narrow, and it borders Lake Owasso. The hard surface coverage limit of 25% equates to 3,227 sf of coverage. The attached survey shows a house, sidewalk, patio and driveway, which has 3,860 sf of coverage. If applicant was given a 50% credit reduction for hard surface coverage on just the driveway, the reduction would be 633 sf, resulting in meeting the 25% limit(3,860 sf less 633 sf = 3,227 sf). Normally, 10,000 sf is an adequate building pad size. A standard lot might be more square in nature, with a shorter drive; the 25% hard surface restriction is usually achievable. With this lot of 12,908 sf, the lot's narrowness is creating challenges for meeting the hard surface limit. Already, we are mitigating by building a smaller house, a smaller garage, a smaller drive pad in front of the garage, and making the drive as narrow as possible(10' wide versus 14' wide). Past Experience Zawadski Homes has installed pervious pavers as hard surface mitigation in Shoreview and Arden Hills, both Cities provide administrative relief without a formal variance application. In Shoreview(see attached example)„a 50% credit is given to offset the hard surface coverage, for the square feet using pervious pavers(installed per manufacturer's specifications); credit is also given for the square feet of house roof that is drained to gutters and carried to the drive. For example, if pervious 46-1 Churchdl Srcey Shoreview, MN 55im6 phone 651-483,0518 • fax 651.483.9057 www.zawadskihomes.com Page 2 of 5