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<br />APPLICANT'S STATEMENT OF REASON FOR VARIANCE: <br />This variance is requested because our family .wishes to bui Id a home on <br />our: land adjoining our present home. We wish to build a home because our <br />present house is not compatible with the needs of our family; it has a single <br />car garage in the basement, and the boy's bedroom is a{so in the basement, <br />.both of which take away much of the storage and play area a family of five <br />needs. <br />Our. chi Idren are. very much attached to our neighborhood and the schools <br />they have attended for the past six years. It would cause them undue unhappi- <br />Hess to be uprooted at this point in their lives. However, lots in our immediate <br />(and surrounding) area are not numerous, and the prices are exorbitant. We <br />feel this may be the only way we can afford another home and sti l) stay in <br />New Brighton. <br />We feel the circumstances are unique because, although the subdivision <br />of our land would yeild two lots below the recommended size, the position of <br />our present house is at the far south of our land leaving the north half vacant. <br />We have planted trees and shrubs allowing for this possibility of building a <br />home there. (See diagram of house location and photo.) The subdivided lots <br />would be 60 and 65 feet. This would not set a precedent in our neighborhood, <br />as within a two block radius there are eleven homes on 60 foot lots, three homes <br />on 65 foot lots, and eleven homes on 50 foot lots. (See attached plat maps.) <br />Also, three of these homes on smaller lots are new homes within four houses from us. <br />