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We purchased what we thought was a ten acre lot with the intention of building a house, a horse barn and a pole barn for storage and a work shop for personal use. I was informed by the city that I could build these two barns. When I applied for the building permit for the two pole barns I was told that the lot is only 9.83 acres and the barns were too big for the lot. The developer had been approved for a variance to make the three lots smaller than 10 acres. The zoning in this area requires a 10 acre minimum lot size. We have already purchased the barns and are building the house. I am asking that since there is a 10 acre minimum and a variance has already been granted then the lot should be treated as 10 acres and then the barns _would meet the zoning requirements. I only want to use the __ proposed buildings for personal use -only. If we had known that we would not be able to build these barns we would have looked for a lot that would allow us to build the barns. The application states that five criteria need to be met for a variance to be approved and I believe they were met as follows, 1- The hardship is that we are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a property that will not be what we had planned. 2- This is caused by the lot being smaller than the minimum requirement for the azea by .17 tenths of an acre but a variance was approved for the lot size and the lot should be treated as the minimum size of 10 acres 3- This is not caused by an action on my part 4- By not having a lot the size of the minimum we are not able to build our barns as others in the zoning would be able to because the minimum lot size would be large enough to build the barns 5- The variance will not harm anyone and will in fact help by having my personal property in a barn instead of in the yard All I am asking is that the lot be treated as a ten acre lot for the purpose of building two pole barns. One is 36'x 72' and the horse barn is 36' x 46' . ~,~~~ ~~~~~v~~