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Attachment E EXTRACT OF MINUTES OF MEETING OF THE VARIANCE BOARD OF THE CITY OF ROSEVILLE Pursuant to due call and notice thereof, a public hearing was held at the regular meeting of the st Variance Board of the City of Roseville, County of Ramsey, Minnesota, on the 1 day of July, 2015, at 5:30 p.m. The following members were present: and the following members absent: Variance Board Member introduced the following resolution and moved its adoption: VB RESOLUTION NO. 115 A RESOLUTION APPROVING VARIANCES TO §1005.02.F (MATERIALS) OF THE ROSEVILLE CITY CODE AT 2851 SNELLING AVENUE (PF15-009) WHEREAS, City Code §1005.02.F provides specific types of exterior building materials to be used in new construction; and WHEREAS, North American Banking, property owners of 2230 Albert Street, have requested a to City Code §1005.02.F to allow a greater percentage of metal siding on VARIANCE all elevations of the building as part of their plans to refurbish the existing building. WHEREAS, the North American Banking property is legally described as: PIN: 10-29-23-34-0036 Attachment A for legal description WHEREAS, City Code §1009.04 (Variances) establishes the purpose of a is VARIANCE “to permit adjustment to the zoning regulations where there are practical difficulties applying to a parcel of land or building that prevent the property from being used to the extent intended by the zoning;” and WHEREAS, the Variance Board has made the following findings: a. The code-compliant manner in which to meet the requirement of §1005.02.F (Materials) has been determined to be slightly restrictive and over-burdensome. Moreover, §1005.02.F (Materials) may need to be reviewed for modification to afford a broader range of materials when such materials would make fine, reasonable, and acceptable primary materials for commercial buildings in order to avoid stifling architectural creativity. It is these restrictions that represent the practical difficulty of the variance request and the proposal appears to compare favorably with all of the above requirements essential for approving variances; Page 1 of 3