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MENDOTA P.O. Box Forest Lake,MN 55025 �--� JJOME(S� I Eagan (651)638-4342 . Fax (651)688-3291 -..- Forest Lake (651)464-9055 Fax (651)464-9056 July 28, 1999 Saint Anthony Village Attn: Kim Moore-Sykes 3301 Silver Lake Road St. Anthony,MN 55418 Dear Ms. Moore-Sykes, Please find, attached, an application for a setback variance for a parcel of land located at 3621 Old Highway 8 in St. Anthony. This application accompanies an applications for a conditional use permit and a request for approval of a new plat. The parcel involved is located to the east of Old Highway 8 and south of County Road C-2. It is bordered by two single family homes to the north, condominium property, also owned by Mendota Homes, Inc. to the east, Executive Manor Condominiums to the south and, across Old Highway 8,townhouses to the west. Mendota Homes, Inc. is proposing the construction of twelve single-level townhouses for this site. Ten of these townhouies will be located in the City of Roseville,with the remaining two in St. Anthony, as the dividing line between Roseville and St.Anthony and Ramsey and Hennepin Counties bisects the property. We are requesting a rear yard setback variance of 27 feet for-the townhome farthest to the east on the St. Anthony side of the development(unit#2 on the development site plan). The R-3 zoning district for townhomes(which is a permitted conditional use on R4 zoned property) requires a rear yard setback of 30 feet. Due to unique circumstances which exist on this property, namely that the city and county dividing lines run directly through it,we are only able to provide a 3 foot rear yard setback for this building, in the City of St.Anthony. There are actually eleven feet between the townhome in question and the next building,however, eight of those eleven feet are in Roseville. There are several reasons why this variance request is justified. First, the City and County boundaries running through this site clearly present an extraordinary circumstance which Mendota Homes, Inc.had no hand in creating. However,they continually present.challenges in measuring and accommodating setbacks and in creating a development that is well-planned, cohesive, aesthetically pleasing, and flows between the two Cities. Adhering to the strict guidelines of the zoning code in the instance of this project would create a townhome development with ten units spaced evenly in Roseville and one townhome, set 33 feet from the Roseville/St. Anthony border in St. Anthony. This layout would clearly defeat the aesthetic value of the development. 49 Absent the existence of the City and County border line on this site,no variance request would ba necessary, as buildings one and two would share a common wall with buildings three