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Narrative from Builder JAMES C. KRANTZ INC. 1780 I�M CI}, Hwv 10 Spring Lakc Park, M11 6 132 Phone (61 2) lig-i-140 LINt_I tni/ii:why o 11 \.I "�Ib ililfllli )/ April 20, 2013 To add oil a 16' x 26' addition to north end of existing home to care for and house mother of wife of household. The room is basically a master bedroom on main floor and needs to be this optimum size because it will have a 6' x 8' bathroom and a 4' x 5' walk in closet and will have an access entry door to living room, kitchen and dining room which are adjacent to the new addition. Also all entry doors to room, bath, closet and to porch are 3'0" handicap accessible. Also the best aesthetic design of this addition has to maintain roolline and Dutch hip style of roof also to keep (lie balance of the house front wall appearance it is necessary to create the 6' backset in the front wall of house so as not to leave the appearance of a very long front wall north of center of the house and a sitting porch with hand railings and steps to grade are proposed for egress and access to yard. Also this feature gives a more open look to rear of lot from the front of the house. Again by covering the porch maintains the roof line and style of roof. The suspended cover over the porch is created by reinforcing the roof trusses to bare on the front wall of the addition. The sitting porch at [lie front most northern point encroaches approximately 2' into Ilse side backset of the property creating a backset at that point of 8' and diminishes backset encroachment back to 10' as you traverse 3' deeper into the lot space. This is the primary reason for this variance application. Another reason for this application is that in the process of inquiry into getting this variance it was discovered that the original builder of die house had inadvertently built the house 5 ft closer to the rear backset of the property line than he was suppose to and he applied for and received a variance at the time of building the house. The addition we are proposing follows tike same rear wall line of (lie existing house and except for the last foot of new addition encroaches about 4" into the 25' original backset where the property line begins to angle to the west (see plot map). Again to recap this wall to rear of house needs to be maintained to support the roof line of the house on the rear of house and that the size of lire additions is best to keep plan as is to provide the space for a ba(hrooni ctose(s and sufpclent living space in the room for the wife's mother and will be used by homeowners in the coming yea Since ely, anes C. Krantz y— - Pr sident