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Mr. Michael Fahey, Mayor City of Little Canada 515 Little Canada Road Little Canada, MN 55117 Dear Mr. Fahay: 2370 Jackson Little Canada, MN 55117 June 16, 1986 p2\1W\I prglan.qlp JUN iw 1986 JUN 17 1988 CITY OF LITTLE CANADA CITY OF LITTLE CANADA We respectfully request reconsideration of the property division request granted by the Little Canada City Council for our property located at 110 East County Road B -2. At the regular meeting of the City Council on May 28, 1986, the City Council approved a variance and lot division at our property located at 110 East County Road B -2. The variance allowed Jackson Street to be considered the front yard despite the fact that it would be the longest street frontage for the corner lot. The lot division then required that the east lot line be 30 feet from the present house because it would be considered the back yard in accordance with the ordinance. In attempting to work with this arrangement, two problems have become evident. 1. The lot division prescribed by the Council and shown on the attached plat map provides for a lot of some 9960 square feet which is 40 square feet less than the required lot size. 2. Because of the 30 -foot requirement to the east lot line at 110 East County Road B -2 and the 15 -foot side yard setback from there to where a building could be located, we are limited to the buildable area on the newly divided lot. The ordinance requires that "granting of a variance would not confer on the applicant any special privilege that is denied by this Ordinance to other lands, structures or buildings in the same district." Logic would dictate that the converse of that would also apply; namely, that the applicant should not be denied privileges that others in the same district enjoy. To that end, a drive through the community indicated the following properties that appeared to be in violation of the same ordinance which deprived us from dividing our property as originally proposed: 1. 2534 -2538 Ruth Street -- Garages are built between 66 feet and 69 feet from the center of the Soo Line tracks. The railroad right - of -way is 50 feet from the center of the track, but that leaves a maximum of 19 feet for the back yard, instead of the 30 feet required by ordinance.