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1 -5- •2_ Wingard: -reported he had paced off the lot and concluded the 3 house where it is proiposed to be constructed would not 4 be a deterrent to the sight distance for drivers ' 5 approaching that corner from Roosevelt; 6 -agreed the blue spruce on the other corner probably 7 interferred more with the drivers ' view than a house on 8 the other side would; 9 -suggested the vegetation height could be limited so as 10 not to interfere with the drivers' sight distance on 11 37th Avenue; and 12 -thought that by requiring a 20 foot drainage easement 13 across the back of this lot, there would be no interfer- 14 ence with the continuation of northerly drainage off 15 adjacent homes onto 37th Avenue and away from the ad- 16 joining property to the east. 17 Madden: -noted thast if the proposed house were built two feet 18 narrower and four feet longer it would require no house 19 size variance; and 20 -said he believes it would be a reasonable compromise for 41applicant to build the house this way and to provide a 2 16 foot rather than a 14 foot setback off 37th Avenue. 23 Mr. Childs ' reaction to these statements was to say: 24 *he could recall no cases where a variance for less than minimum 25 house size had been granted in the six years he had served as City 26 Manager, except perhaps where small homes had been allowed to be 27 reconstructed after the tornado; 28 *he could see no reason why the Commission couldn' t recommend the 29 contractor be required to construct a 24 feet X 42 feet house and 30 to provide two more feet of setback off 37th Avenue; 31 32 *in relation to possible obstruction of view, indicated that with 33 around 12 feet of City right-of-way there would be either 26 or 28 34 feet between the house and the street; 35 *the City is restricted from piling snow anywhere but the right-of- 36 way in any event. 37 In response to Commissioner Wingard' s question of whether there would 38 ever be sidewalks in that right-of-way, Mr. Childs said the City' s 39 policy for the last 15 .years had been "no more sidewalks" and the only 40 interest he had seen for sidewalks had been in front of the Kenzington. 41 Commissioner Madden added that the County had "shoved sidewalks down the 2 residents ' throats" when 37th Avenue had .been reconstructed past his 3 townhome.