Applicant Follow-up and Visual Evidence (May 15, 2020)

Troy and Sue-Anne Carter 8 Eaton Avenue Victoria, BC V8Z 5E1

May 15, 2020

Town of View Royal Mayor and Council 45 View Royal Avenue Victoria, BC V9A 1A6

Mayor and Council,

Thank you for considering our development variance application for setbacks of our accessory building. We realize there are serious considerations Council needs to take into account in deciding whether to grant this DVP. We hope we have convinced Council that we are good neighbours and the variance is not asking too much of our neighbourhood, given the setback reduction is very minor.

We have attached a picture with sticks laid down, visually laying out the edge of the foundation footing and where we would need to move it to in order to be within the setback and build with no variance, Council input or neighbour say.

We believe the disruption and noise in that corner, cost, concrete, asphalt and soil removal, resurveying for elevations, re-pouring of the footing and concrete foundation floor, redrawing of construction plans and then... construction of the actual accessory building will be far more disruptive to our neighbours than this ‘construction building permit ready’ concrete footing and foundation would be.

We also would like to bring to the attention of Council that the setback variance requested in the Report to Council by staff is a maximum requested, 0.7 m is actually on the east of the property (1269 Burnside Rd). The largest setback requirement occurs on this side of the property.

The setbacks concerning the property to the south (10 Eaton Avenue) are 0.99m and 0.91m. This is on the ‘front door’ side of 10 Eaton Avenue which has the least amount of setback variance requested and the most amount of screening between the 2 properties.

There will be adequate insulation and drywall in the constructed accessory building between the 2 properties, as well as no windows on those walls on the walkway of 10 Eaton Avenue. The door will be street facing.

We have been talking about this for quite a while now; idea stage, conceptually, neighbourhood-wide and monetarily. We have planned well in advance for it as a Board of Variance application due to our lack of building site options. Our choices were cut off due to COVID-19. Our pleadings to Council are now even more limited to paper and pictures.

We hope you will consider this as a minor variance to the (1) property line setback & (2) eaves projection (which can be easily amended, as per our previous letter) and not as the constructing of an accessory building, which is not in question.

With kind Regards,

Troy and Sue-Anne Carter