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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES DECEMBER 4, 1990 PAGE, 2 5. REAPP REPORT Todd Williams reported the Request for Proposal for Public Relation Firms have been sent to approx. 26 Public. Relation Firms. The date for completion of these proposals should be postmarked by December 7, 1990. REAPP intends to devote a large part of their December 16th meeting to review the proposals and come to the Council with a recommendation.. 6. PLANNING/LAND USE & ZONING: A. PUBLIC HEARING: Wayne & Kathy Wensley, 8470 DeMontreville Trail N., Variance for sideyard setback for purpose of construction of an addition. Mayor Dunn opened up the public hearing at 7:20 p.m. in the City Council chambers. The Public Hearing notice was published in the November 21, 1990 St. Croix Valley Press and adjoining property owners were notified. Rich Rossbach, Rossbach Construction, explained a survey was recently done and, determined the south property line was closer to the house location than the owners or the neighbor to the south had anticipated. The house is not parallel to the skewed property line so the southeast corner of the addition encroaches on the 10 ft. setback by approx. 4'. According to Rossbach, to move the addition was not feasible due to the septic location and to reduce the size of the addition would remove the function. As an alternative, the property owners have talked to their neighbors who live on 5.3 acres about trading portions of land. The unpleasing aspect of this is that their rectangular lot becomes an untidy description and felt it would be best to keep the straight lines. The Council acknowledged a letter from Kathleen and Jeffrey Hamme indicating they share a common boundary line with Wayne and Katherine Wensley and are aware the southeast corner of Wensley's family room addition would come to within 6 feet of this common boundary line. The Hamme's stated in the letter that they have no objections to the granting of this variance. Mayor Dunn closed. the public hearing at 7:24 p.m. Councilman Williams commented he looked at the house and it appeared to him there was land to the north and asked why couldn't the addition be placed in that direction. Since this is a meets -and -bound description, adjusting the border would be easily accomplished. He was uncomfortable with granting a variance when there are such large lots around. Kathy Wensley responded there was an attached garage and the drainfield was on the NW side. Williams asked if the septic tank and drainfield were preventing the use of the NW corner of the house for this addition. Rossbach stated this was very low land and whenever it rains there was standing water.