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Home My WebLink AboutShed Common Line - PLN General - 1/12/2012 �. - � �� f r , ;. . . '� ,�. F ��' j. � ',, y � �� x ` �r ' .yam '�� .� _ � �� ,T�� . . „� a � Lim! '♦ �. �. � ,ti ��„. f C .� ,.., „4 v,� ., C ( ore w�/J o--p 0 k4� ---+f ( +a lu� 'T, I l Il V�-p (-�✓ vi s k%,c So i i lIy`,q�i��1 -tt 2- AVI'dlo I� �'r 'j• a !2 . �4�►"a .+� � r r ` i It �F r r • � 1 � �`� J cl( �s � �� ' A �•.. I ' [ a t AIL- - -1 -� J i v�.P i S vi `sue RECEIVED 1-12-12 JAN 2 U 2012 Allan Borden MASON CO. PLANNING DEPT. Senior Planner Mason County Department of Community Development Mason County Building I 411 N. 5th Shelton, WA 98584 .ti Dear Mr Borden, c.S\ Thanks for coming out to look at the placement of our shed and explaining view common lines (which we also called "sight lines"). I am asking that we be allowed to leave our shed where it currently is and respectfully ask you to consider the following in" y support of that request. r 1. The placement of our shed became an issue at the end of last October when our neighbor, Jill Anderson, had the lot line between our two properties re-surveyed. We discovered that the lot line was about 4 feet over onto our property from where we had believed it to be based on yellow rubber capped rebar stakes that it turned out someone had moved prior to our buying the property. 2. Once we knew where the new property line was, we realized we would need to move our shed. After I checked with the Mason County Department of Community Development about the regulations concerning lot lines, I applied for a variance so that the shed could be placed 5 feet from the lot line. When I took the diagram of the proposed move into your office, I told the woman at the front counter who helped us (Deborah) that we might move the shed directly froward from where it was rather than around the tree and next to the lot line as shown on the diagram I gave her. She said that she was familiar with our property since she had been the one that assigned addresses for the county and that the variance, if approved, would cover any placement of the shed as long as it was 5 feet from the lot line. She knew that it was shoreline property, but I guess she didn't occur to her to alert us to the fact that there might be sight line issues to be considered. I wanted to explain what happened not to be critical of Deborah, who has always been very helpful, but to point out one opportunity where we could have been informed of sight line requirements and were not. 3. We received the variance that you approved, but again, there was no mention that sight line regulations might come into play. Once I had the variance, we went to considerable effort and expense move the shed on November 21 st taking into account only the lot line regulations. Had we known that there might also be sight line requirements, we would have made changes in our moving plan. 4. The letter we received from you dated December 23rd was the first time anyone from your office mentioned a common or sight line issue. The stakes, red survey flags and orange paint that you placed as a courtesy to us in helping us determine the proper shed placement were most probably removed by Jill or her fence contractors, as we never encountered them on our property. Since your placement of those stakes was on November 23rd and and we did not receive notice from you until your December 23rd letter, we had no reason be on the lookout for any markers or to realize that there were sight line issues. 5. When you came out to our property and met with me on January 6th, you said that the sight line we had to use was the one that ran between the roof line on our Park Model RV and Jill's roof line. Using this sight line, part of our shed did cross the sight line and, therefore, did not meet Mason County regulations. 6. 1 would like to propose that the sight line from our RV to Jill's house is not the most appropriate sight line to use, or, at least, is not the only sight line that could be considered legitimate. Our RV, which is a temporary, moveable structure, was placed as far back on the property as possible to make available the maximum amount of room for the building of a permanent house. Neither the bank nor the mortgage company considered the RV a permanent structure or a house. They would only finance our property as a vacant lot. We were required to purchase the RV at the Department of Motor Vehicles in a separate transaction from buying the parcel of land. 7. If it was determined that our property contained no permanent structures, then I believe that the sight line that would apply would be the one that runs from Jill's house to the next house to the left of our property, 1111 E. Wilson Way owned by Bill Kerney. Another way of saying basically the same thing is that, when we decide to put a permanent house on our property, the sight line we would have to deal with would be the one that runs from Jill's house to the Kerney's house. If that would be the sight line used for a permanent structure on our property, it would seem possible that the same sight line could legitimately be used for a temporary structure like our shed. If it would be possible to use the sight line between Jill's house and the Kerney's, then our shed is would be several feet behind the sight line and would be properly placed. 8. As you can tell from the pictures I have enclosed, if you stand at either front corner of Jill's house, you can see that our shed does not block her view of the water in any way. In summary, I believe that a strong case could be made that it is legitimate to use the sight line that runs from Jill's house to the Kearney's in determining if our shed is properly placed or not. We are not asking for permission to block Jill's water view. We are asking only that we not have to expend the considerable effort and expense to make a second move of our shed that will do nothing to improve Jill's waterfront view. Thank you for your consideration of these points. I hope to hear from you soon. 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