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32 <br /> July 20, 2001 <br /> City of St. Anthony Village <br /> 3300 Silver Lake Road <br /> St. Anthony, MN 55418 <br /> Re: Petition for Variance <br /> 2835 Roosevelt St. N.E. <br /> St. Anthony, MN 55418 <br /> To Whom It May Concern: <br /> This letter is to petition for a variance at the above property address so that we may build a <br /> detached two car garage. My family has been St. Anthony residents for twelve years, <br /> living at this same address. Our home was built in 1953 and has had no structural <br /> changes since that time. <br /> The original-single car attached garage has never been sufficient for our family (nor the <br /> previous.owner), but due to other r family needs (children in college, etc.),-we put off the <br /> expense of building a garage until now. At long last, we are finally in a position to afford <br /> this addition only to find out that the 50 feet of property on the south end of our lot is not <br /> enough, according to an ordinance on the books that even the City Inspector was <br /> unfamiliar with. This ordinance states that we need to build 30 feet off of Murray versus <br /> the 15 feet we anticipated and the 19 feet we allowed in our building plans. Everyone we <br /> spoke with at the City of St. Anthony Village office about getting the building permit was <br /> under this same impression, that only 15 feet off the street was required. <br /> Like most families, we have more than one car. We currently have three licensed drivers <br /> living in our home and have had up to five when all our children were still living at home. <br /> For years our family has had to deal with the hardship of daily moving cars, because of <br /> different schedules. Our current schedules vary from 5:00 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. in the <br /> morning. Each evening we have to repeat the process of moving cars back into place. In <br /> the winter we have to allow even more time in our morning routine to remove snow and <br /> ice. All in all, it is much more difficult than it should be on any of us. <br /> Over the years, this has been more than an inconvenience, especially when either of us <br /> has had major surgery and were incapacitated, which has happened to both of us more <br /> than once. If we have guests or out of town visitors staying with us that have driven, our <br /> situation is compounded. We do not leave our cars parked in the street and have even <br /> had to park one car on part of our lawn. The previous owners did the same, they even <br /> placed gravel next to the existing driveway which we removed because it looked so bad. <br />