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F. <br />APPRAISAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, LTD. <br />STEVENSON-EDWARDS & ASSOCIATES <br />. 2310 County Road D New Brighton, Minnesota 55112 <br />(612) 636-2565 FAX: (612) 633-0394 <br />December 3, 1992 <br />Mrs. Helen King <br />1427 Idaho Avenue <br />Falcon Heights, Minnesota 55108 <br />Re: Setback encroachments, adjacent owner's garage <br />Dear Mrs. King: <br />(612) 633-0779 <br />One of the reasons for zoning property is to maintain orderly development in a <br />community where like uses of land occupy a contiguous area. That is, homes are in <br />one area, commercial in another, and industrial in another. Where this type of <br />zoning is maintained, you achieve orderly development and you also preserve <br />values. <br />As a part of zoning, there are various restrictions that apply to each of these uses. <br />These restrictions include lot size, access to public roads, building size and height <br />• limitations, setback requirements, etc. These restrictions all have purposes, some <br />deal with safety, others with road maintenance, access to utilities and other factors. <br />When these requirements are met, they not only accomplish the above factors, but <br />they also maintain property values. The reverse ~s also true; that is, if individual <br />properties are for some reason put in a situation which makes them out of <br />compliance with zoning requirements, the property out of compliance and adjacent <br />properties maybe adversely affected. <br />In your particular situation, the adjacent property owner to the west constructed a <br />~azage that is substantially lazger than the zoning code allows and, as I understand <br />:t, has bcea built without a variance ivsued by the city. After vie ~ <br />.and the adjacent owner's new gaze, ~is_aUDarent that s ~azaee, by its size, has <br />~educ~ tFie value of your prouerty and nroi~ably the ~ronertv~o the west. e <br />reason ~ that the garage rs too ig or the lot, and the result is inconsistent with the <br />neighborhood development as overned by the zoning code. Care has to be taken <br />by the community, in this case Falcon Heights, to make sure that these situations do <br />not occur, since property values will suffer. <br />I have not made an apprasial of your property, but it would appear that your <br />property has suffered a loss of at least 5% of its value and ossibl more. Th~s_ loss_ <br />results from a~ e f o ac ors w c aze a ect oss in terms o e adjacent <br />zoning violation and the mar eting time, w c most e y wo e increase over <br />the average. <br />~ k•y r <br />