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that he will be living in the house. Mrs. Bahas had several concerns: that the garage is only 10 feet wide, that variances will be needed for the square footage of the house, and that a tree on the lot which provides drainage.will have to be removed. Mr. Miller presented a docunent from the county showing lot size, and size and type of homes that are now on the street. He maintained that this house will be in keeping with the other homes in the area. Several neighbors disagreed with tYie figures he presented, since these records show 52 foot lot, and their lots are 60 feet wide. Mrs. Bahas stated that the plat map showed that most of the lots were 60 foot. This issue really has no bearing on this hearinga Mr. Burk stated that the request was approved at the last meeting conditioned upon advice from various City Departments that there would be proper drainage in the a:rea and tha,t building on that lot would not create a hardship to the neighbors with regard to drainage. He stated that the information received from the City seemed to indicate that there would not be a problem. Mrs. Gravenstreter, a resident, disagreed with the Assistant City Engineer's statements. She maintained that water did overflow the ditches and did get into basements and she wants the situa.tion remedied before the house is built. She had not seen anyone from the City on the street recently. She explained that there were surveyors on the street last sunmer at which time they were told that their pr.oblen would be solved, but it has not been. AZrs. Hosier stated that there was standing water in the 1ot next door even when it is not rauzing. Neighbors would like Mr. McDermott to come out after it rains and believed that a representative from the Engineering Department should have been at the meeting. The members studied the plat map and the previous minutes. Building Commissioner Conway advised that the size of the house was a ma.tter for the Board of Zoning Appeals. Mr. Miller stated that they had presented a site plan showing the elevations to the Engineering Department. Mr. Kazak read the motion from the last meeting "Mra Schulz moved that the Board table this proposal until the topographical ma,p is received and after the Engineering Department has approved it, the Board will act on the proposal". That motion fai:Led... Then a motion was made to accept construction of the dwelling pending variances being granted by the Board of Zoni.ng Appeals and conditioned an the Engineering Department's approval accepting a site plan and drainage plan as it was submitted at the meeting. This motion did pass. Mr. Kazak stated that if this letter is accepting the drainage plan by the Engineering Department then that would complete the motion to accept by this Board. Mr. Conway stated that they have not filed for a variance as yet. Mr. Miller stated that he planned to file after the results of this meeting, but he tmderstood from the letter that he had to wait to build the house until after the ditches were cleaned. Mrs. Gravenstreter stated when they built their home they were told i:hat the ditches would be replaced by pipes in 1987 after their assessment was paid for. Mr. Miller believed that this was the only solution to their problem. She ma.intained that most neighbors would be willing to pay for this, but they were told by the former mayor that the neighbors would have to get together and request it, and there would be a few neighbors who would object to paying for the improvement. Chairman Burk stated that, in his opinion, the letter from the Engineering Department did not actually accept the propos3l, his interpretation was that this was a rather quick review and he did consider it to be conclusive that this proposal would cause no problems to the svrrounding neighbors. Mr. Kazak stated that there were two conditions in the motion that was made at the last meeting: one was contingent upon Engineering Department's approval accepting the site plan and the drainage on the plan that was submitted at the last meeting, and the other was that a variance must be granted by the Board of Zoning appeals. If the variance has not been granted and the Engineering Department has not approved .r a 2