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Board of Appeals Page 3 July 19, 1979 requirements is a 24 foot garage. One of the requirements is a four foot wide hallway. One of the requirements is a bedroom that's large enough for me to maneover around in without obstruction. When we have tried to make plans we've had to bear all these things. The four feet in question is four feet out of my bedroom, and if we have to go through a redesign process at this point in time it's not only likely to cut down in the space that I need to maneover around in, but it's likely to result in a significant delay of time because we're going to have to go back and have all our plans approved again by the Veterans Administration. I regret too that things have come to this point, but if the variance isn't granted I'm going to be the _ one thats going to be penalized by this. So I request that this be. granted. Thank you. Davies: Thank you. Bill Bachman: I'm the owner and the builder in question here, in regards to the Councilman who came up and was refer~ng to the fact that we continued building even though we knew that there was some objections to it, in the fact that there was some problems. One of the things was that the owners of the house, their V.A. loan had a set amount of time to put this house up. If the construction wasn't completed in that given time the money that he would have to put forth would be increased, and I thought about this and I said to myself, as the builder who was under contract to do this, that I just felt that we should go ahead and get as far along as we could with it, that I would take the consequences for it, if the variance wasn't granted, but it was, we would be on schedule, we would be able to meet the demands by the lender for this person, for the homeowner, and we would continue it on schedule. Now if we don't get the variance, I'm not going to sue the eity of Louisville or anytning like the Councilman was might have said. I'm under contract to build a house at a certain fixed price, I gave them~~ bid; ~~ to'~hat this house would cost, and if there's delays on something that is as far as I'm concerned arbitrary, then I would be liable for this thing, but since no one had come up and said you cannot build this house, I just assumed to go ahead and do it and try to meet schedule and build this house for this person at the money that I said we could do it, and consequently I think that I would hope that you would grant the variance for th~s. Davies: Thank you. Anybody else? Mark Bailey: 600 W. Hawthorne, across the street from the property in question. There is certainly an unfortunate situation, I don't know all the details and theres some difficult extenuating circumstances that it just concerns me having just moved into the area, knowing full well that the covenance were that sets a bad precendent with only by my count 8 families living in the area of 100 some lots that are already pending the convenance. Rules don't bend very well once you've done it once it's easy to do it again, next time it could be next door to me I suppose. I would ask you to deny the variance.