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1 neighbors before the hearing and to date staff had received no <br /> • 2 letters or calls from any of them. <br /> 3 The City Manager also indicated he had looked up the minutes of the <br /> 4 meeting in 1966 where the first variance had been granted but ,found <br /> 5 only four lines related to the issue. Information about the <br /> 6 reasons . used by the Commission and Council for granting the <br /> 7 variance were not in those minutes. <br /> 8 Proponents - Eugene and Nicole Tomas <br /> 9 Nr. Tomas told the Commissioners: <br /> 10 *he had four sons, all of whom had licenses and cars so he <br /> 11 needed more garage space, even though he had never been able to park <br /> 12 cars in the existing garage since it had been built; <br /> 13 *the plan was to construct the new three car garage which would <br /> 14 exit on Silver Lane; put a second floor bedroom on the existing <br /> 15 garage this fall for the use of his mother during winter months; and <br /> 16 to continue to use the garage, which exits onto Penrod, for that <br /> 17 purpose until his sons had moved away from home. He said he then <br /> 18 planned to enclose it for a family room; <br /> 19 *there's a lot of congestion in the yard now with 7 cars <br /> 20 (including the vans used for his plumbing business and a boat) and <br /> • 21 his mother will have a car to park in the winter; <br /> 22 *he preferred adding the new garage to the existing structure <br /> 23 but understood he could put a detached garage with a 30 foot setback <br /> 24 in his backyard but thought that would look "kind of ugly" compared <br /> 25 to the appearance of an attached garage fit into the rest of the main <br /> 26 structure; <br /> 27 *he had been forced to cut down the existing garage size to <br /> 28 meet the Ordinance requirements in 1966 and the way the house is now <br /> 29 with a sliding door on that side, if he continued the garage on the <br /> 30 house side, he wouldn't be able to get a large car into his garage. <br /> 31 The plan was therefore designed to come back off the garage and then <br /> 32 to -encircle the deck two feet before continuing out towards the back; <br /> 33 *the third stall would probably only be long enough to use as a <br /> 34 "lawn mower stall"; <br /> 35 *he would probably keep the cement slab which runs the length <br /> 36 of the existing garage on the Silver Lane side; <br /> 37 *he would retain at least a 38 foot setback to the rear with <br /> 38 the proposed addition; <br /> 39 <br /> • 5 <br />