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___..__.�_._.- - -. --��_.--.--..__ . .�.._.�.__.. _._._��_.__._. ._._ _ ._ � - <br /> _._.. ..�__....__,.r�_---- <br /> - --- -- -- -- _ .__ ___. . <br /> ---- -- ___.... _ .._� <br /> I, . <br /> � _� �C1Y OF aE�CA�'►,fR, t�. • <br /> i - • . .;.� <br /> I December 13, 1988 <br /> I - <br /> ! Mrs. Phyllis Sands DEC 141988 <br /> ! City Clerk, City of Decatur <br /> 4 #1 Civic Center Plaza ( i CLE K <br /> 1 Decatur, Illinois 62523 `' <br /> ,J <br /> •; Dear Mrs. Sands: <br /> i <br /> � <br /> � We are appealing the decision of the zoning board that took place <br /> 1 Thursday, December 8, 1988, at the Civic Center. We were informed, <br /> by Mrs. Paine, that because the vote was 4�2 we were allowed, as the <br /> � aggrieved party, to request a hearing by the Decatur City Council. <br /> � <br /> i We would like to request an on site hearing to appeal the decision <br /> + of the 8' variance granted by the zoning board. We feel the only <br /> way for the City Council to fully 'understand the problem is to see <br /> it for themselves. When we bought our home in October, 1985, there <br /> was no large unsightly deck next door, no chimney next door, and <br /> � at arms length out our back door, no shed as high as our neighbors <br /> � house, in a 10 ' side yard, and no 6 'x6" bright orange ''NO TRESPASSING" <br /> ' sign, which I understand is against rules too, out my dining room <br /> ; window. Soon after purchasing our home a variance �was granted so <br /> jMr. Ducy could fizish instal.ling the chimney with a 0 rear yard <br /> � setback. He had begun construction, without a permit, right after <br /> � we had made the offer on our house in August, 1985. In the spring <br /> ! of 1986 we spent $13,000.00 landscaping our yard, and our neighbors <br /> at 1125 S. Lakeshore Dr. soon followed suit. For the last two <br /> winters, Mr. Ducy has caused $4�000.00 in damage to our yard and <br /> the side of our house� with the unsightly creosote and liquid <br /> resinous fallout from this chimney. � <br /> � We feel Mr. Ducy continues to do anything he wants, without concern <br /> � for other people's property, or without following the city ordinances, <br /> which everyone else in the neighborhood has to follow. He construc- <br /> � ted this shed, without a permit, just as before in 1985, in a side <br /> i yard of approx3mately 10 ' , knowing full well that there was an 8 ' <br /> ) setback requirement. Had this 8 ' variance not been allowed, at <br /> last weeks zoning board hearing, it would have eliminated Mr. Ducy's <br /> ability to even have a shed. Our yard is the same as his, a hill <br /> in th.e front and a small side and rear yard. We are not allowed <br /> to have a shed 5ecause of the 8 ' setback requirement: We obey the . <br /> city ordinances� which are written to protect people from people . . <br /> who do as they� please. This is Mr. Ducy's second request for a <br /> variance, after completion of each project, without permits and � <br /> iagainst city zoning ordinances. <br /> � Ever time Mr. Duc <br /> y y gets called in on the carget for doing wrong, <br /> i he files for a variance, and the staff recommends to the zoning <br /> � • <br />