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We feel the proposed design of the house follows the intent of the City's Comprehensive Plan. Page 84 highlights the need to revise the zoning ordinances and grant set back variances as a key strategy to support green building techniques as highlighted on the attached comp plan printout (attachment 1). Our home will be powered by a geothermal HVAC system as a part of the overall sustainable home package. We believe an approved variance to the side yard setback on a corner lot would not conflict with the City Comprehensive Plan. We are maintaining a larger "side yard" setback than a non - corner lot is required. Variances may be granted when the petitioner establishes that there are practical difficulties in complying with the zoning ordinance. Practical difficulties means that: 3. The petitioner proposes to use the propery in a reasonable manner not permitted by the -oning ordinance; The use of the property is in a reasonable manner. We worked with our home designer and builder to reduce the width of our home a number of times in a good faith effort to make it fit within the setback requirements; this is however not possible without building a 2 story style home. A two story home would not be practical for us because of current mobility issues. We believe the lot was not designed in a manner to accommodate a rambler home and feel it is not fair and reasonable to be required to build a two level home. Rotating the house 90 degrees would meet the required setbacks but that would result in us having no useable backyard and the inability to have a porch. 4. The p light of the petitioner is due to circumstances unique to the proper y not a consequence of the petition's ozvn action or inaction; and The plight is not a consequence of our action or inaction as the lot shape and street locations and design were in place before we purchased the lot. 5. The variance, ifgranted, will not alter the essential character of the locality. The essential character of the locality will not be altered. As stated in item #1, the two streets, that our property is located on, are curved resulting in the appearance of varied setbacks. The essential character of varied setbacks would not be affected by our home encroaching into the setback Analysis Comprehensive Plan The subject property has an underlying Land Use of Residential. An approval of the variance will have no impact on the Land Use. N:ADepartments\Community Development \Planning \Case Piles \V \V 15 -03 Langlais \N' 15 -03 sr BA Langlais.docs