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NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION REGARDING A REQUEST FOR SETBACK VARIANCE 1828 NORTH DALE COURT JULY 13,2006 Cl�aFles and Suzanne Weleczki are seeking a setback variance regarding the single family honze 1ot located at 1828 North Da1e Court. The Weleczkis formerly lived at 1822 No�-�h. Da1e Court immediately adjacent to the south of the subject 1ot for over 30 years. After raising nine children, they retired 1ast year and due to 11ea.lfk� concerns (Mrs. Weleczki has been battling colon aild It��g cancer and Mr. Weleczki has severe diabetes), they n�oved 10 an apartment complex on Victoria Street in 2005. In order to facilitate selling their homestead, the Weleczkis applied for and received a�ni��or subdivision approval in 2005 whereby the subject 1ot at 1828 North Da1e Court was split fra�� t�1e original homestead at 1822 North Da1e Cou�-�. T�ie Weleczicis then sold their homestead and moved to their a�a��t��e�� in late su�z�ae�` 2005. The Weleczkis have laad Ih� subject 1ot listed with a real estate company since the minor subdivision was approved in 2005. They have had numerous interested parties and not less than six (� purchase agreements have been submitted by potential buyers. Unfoi�tunateiy, due to the unique triangular shape of the subject 1ot, the buyers have had a difficulty in developing practical plans for a hom� design that can be built on �3ie site without the need for setback variances. This has resulted in a11 purchase agreements being cancelled or rescinded. To date, the Weleczkis have been unable to se11 the 1ot due to these practical difficulties in making a design plan for a hon�e without setback variances. Tl�c potentiallot buyers have indicated that the culxent unique shape of the 1ot imposes practical difficulties on the home design such that a typical standard home design plan wi11 not worlc. Potential buyers are unable to design hallways and rooms on tl-te unique triangular site such that tlae new ho�� would be practically �seab�e. '�1��: Weleczkis are not home builders or real estate developers and to date they have merely sought to se11 the 1ot to san�eoz�e who can malce good use of it. However, they have now concluded that in order to sell the 1ot and in order �:o overcome tlte practical difficulties of ineeting a11 set back requirements on t��e unique triangular shaped 1ot, the best option is to seek a setback variance so that a home with a traditional design plan and layout may be constructed on the 1ot. A boundary survey showing the dimensions of the 1ot as split was submitted in 2005 in conjunction with the i�i��or subdivision application. Attached to the application is a schematic of a possible footprint of a single family hoi�ie structure for the new 1ot. Whi1e it would be physically possible to construct a very uniquely designed single fan�aiy home on a building pad on the subject 1ot that would �neet a11 set back reqt�irez��e��ts, the attached schematic shows a plan for a ina�e traditional single fa�nily home design that would require only minor relaxation of set back requirements on the East and West sides of the 1ot and in w�ich standard room sizes, lzal�ways and entrances could he built.