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2. The degree of Ordinary High Water setback departure requested by the applicant, <br />as a zoning variance, would be a special privilege that has not been accorded to <br />other property owners in the Shoreland Overlay District. Lesser degrees of <br />encroachment have been denied as variances. <br />3. No hardship, has opposed to the applicant's personal desire, has been <br />demonstrated. <br />4. The requested variance is not the minimum that would alleviate the hardship, <br />since no hardship as been demonstrated. <br />5. The area of this lot now above the Ordinary High Water level was, in part, was <br />artificially created from lakebed in years past. By that action, encroachment in <br />excess of most other lake front lots in the neighborhood has already taken place. <br />Additional encroachment by approval of this variance would bestow a privilege <br />to this property owner not enjoyed by other property owners in similar <br />circumstances. <br />ADOPTED, by the Lake Elmo City Council this 19th day of June, 2001. <br />Lee Hunt, Mayor <br />ATTEST: <br />Mar,y*uejqier, Cit Administrator <br />1) <br />