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• • MEMORANDUM FOR CITY OF LINO LAKES FROM: Benton Erickson Kristine Erickson 6868 W. Shadow LK. DR. Lino Lakes, MN. 55014 SUBJECT: VARIANCE We would like to receive a variance to allow an addition on the northwest side of our home. The City Building Department tells us we need a variance because the property is located on Reshanau Lake. Without the variance we would not be able to build the addition, and still have room to use our unattached garage. We only want to build approximately 12 feet to the rear of the house and towards the lake. This layout will allow us to meet the city requirement to have access from the current house, into the addition, and still give us room to enter our unattached garage. Without a variance, the only way to have access into the current house, from the proposed addition, would require tearing off the attached garage and this still wouldn't leave enough room to enter the unattached garage. The proposed addition will fit nicely onto the existing house without being an eye sore. We plan to use the additional space as a parent's apartment. The layout of our existing house would make it impossible to do an addition on the south side of the house and still have easy access from the driveway and garage. If you look at the survey of the property you will see that our house is over 100 feet from the lake. We do have a lower area in the back yard that causes the high water level line to seem closer than on the lots next to us. In past years these lots had fill hauled in that raised them slightly above the high water line. The house was built before the year of the high water flood and has never had any water problems. The planned addition would meet DNR requirements and be outside the minimum established distance needed to build. Also the addition would blend in with the houses on both sides. Bra A. Erich Kristine M. Erickson