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TO: Little Canada Planning Commission, Mayor, Administrator, Council Members FROM: Nancy & Jerome Carroll - 670 Lahore Road RE: Property Request for Variance for 666 Labore Road July 13, 2000 We are unable to attend tonight's meeting, but aze submitting this Letter of Protest to the Request for Yartance by Mr. Thomas Leonzal, representing Theodore & Patricia O'Neil. We wish to list our reasons for objecting to this variance and to encourage the Commission to recommend against this request. 1. We do not believe property owners should be allowed to degrade the value of their properties and those on their boundaries. After studying the design and drawings of the proposed road, we believe at least four properties (ours included) will be directly and negatively impacted by the clearing away of all natural growth and installing a highly trafficked area along property lines. Noise, congestion, and lights intruding into our living azeas are only the beginning of the list of inconveniences and degradation we would be subjected to. 2. In the minutes of the Mazch 9`h Planning Commission, I quote: "Knudsen asked if the new home would have access via Keller Parkway. O'Nerl replied that was correct. The property owner of 636 Labore Road was concerned that the access for the new lot would be via Lahore Road. O'Neil reported that the new lot will have road access via Keller Parkway." It is cleaz from this meeting that many people present were concerned with road access to this new home. Many more of us did not attend the meeting because we had previously been assured by the office of the City Administrator that the request up for approval clearly stated access would be by Keller Parkwav. Since we had no objections to that, we saw no need to attend the meeting. It is now uncleaz to many of us what possible reason would cause the property owners to come back, this soon, and propose the variance already known to be unacceptable? 3. College City Homes, in its letter to the City of Little Canada -dated June 26s' -states; "College City Homes sees no other way to give the O'Neils access to their property, stay within 10% or less driveway grade, and be handicap accessible unless the driveway is off Lahore Road." We disagree and encourage the builder and the landowners to rescind this newest request for variance. 4. In regazd to the argument of handicap accessibility, we would remind everyone at this meeting that at any hour, on any day, any one of us could become handicapped. We would not then expect our neighbors to be burdened with inconveniences and degradation of their properties in order to accommodate this new handicap. Page 26