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• 5299 Clifton Drive Mounds View, MN 55112 July 21. 1994 City Planning Commission City Hall Mounds View, MN 55112 Dear members of the City Planning Commission, We are hoping to add an addition on to our home at 5299 Clifton Drive to meet the needs of our growing family. We moved here in the summer of 1987 and now have three children --w under the age of five. We bought a home that we., could afford on one income so we could have a stable family with the mother mostly staying at home. Our home has only one closet on the first floor and it is located in a bedroom. We need a mud room, bigger dining space. and another bedroom. We considered building off the • back into the backyard, but the cost would be $40,000 and we would still need a mud room for boots and Jackets. By adding to the side of our home, off the back door, we will be meeting all of our needs for about $25,000. We want the :dimensions of * the addition to be 12 feet x 22 feet with basement underneath and a 12 x 12 bedroom above it. We are asking for a variance for our addition to be 4 feet in front of the garage so we can get the maximum length possible. We are limited to a 12 foot width by our driveway. 7936 Greenfield has a very similar addition to the one we want to build and it it 5 feet in front of their garage. - • a - eld also have additions very close to the garage. Four addresses on our block that have 'additions close to their garage are 5337 Clifton Drive, 5352 Clifton Drive, 5338 Clifton Drive, and 5293 Clifton Drive. The building code in Bloomington states a house must be three feet from a garage, and also the universal building code. Please consider the needs of this stable and growing Mounds View family and grant this variance. Sincerely yours, 4110 Larry and Susan Potts Phone: 780-1322