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DAN MATTHEWS AND J.H. FRANK APPEARED IN REGARD TO THEIR REQUEST <br />FOR RELEASE OF EASEMENTS ALONG THE REAR LOT LINE IN BLOCK M OF DIXIE <br />HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION, UNIT 4. <br />ADMINISTRATOR .JENNINGS INFORMED THE BOARD THAT THIS REQUEST WAS <br />PREVIOUSLY BROUGHT BEFORE THE BOARD AT THE MEETING OF .JULY 7, 1976, BUT <br />IT WAS FELT MORE INFORMATION WAS NEEDED AND THE MATTER WAS TABLED, HE <br />CONTINUED THAT THE PROBLEM IS THAT THESE GENTLEMEN DO NOT REPRESENT ALL <br />THE PROPERTY OWNERS IN THE BLOCK, BUT ARE INTERESTED ONLY IN THE _RELEASE <br />OF EASEMENTS ON THE LOTS THEY OWN. THE ADMINISTRATOR NOTED THAT THERE <br />IS NO DRAINAGE SWALE IN THIS LOCATION AND ACTUALLY THE REAR EASEMENT SERVES <br />NO PURPOSE AT THIS TIME, BUT THE PROBLEM IS IN THE RELEASING OF PART OF AN <br />EASEMENT AND KEEPING PART OF AN EASEMENT, <br />CHAIRMAN SIEBERT INQUIRED ABOUT THE NEED OF AN EASEMENT FOR <br />FUTURE WATER AND SEWER LINES, AND THE ADMINISTRATOR AGREED THIS WOULD BE <br />A POTENTIAL USE. <br />MR. MATTHEWS NOTED THERE IS A HIGHER ELEVATION IN THE.REAR AND A <br />SEWER LINE WOULD PROBABLY HAVE TO BE RUN THROUGH THE ROAD. HE STATED THAT <br />MR. FRANK WISHES TO ERECT A FENCE AROUND HIS PROPERTY AND HE WISHES TO <br />BUILD A 24 X 24 FOOT GARAGE ON HIS LOT SEPARATED FROM HIS HOUSE, BUT IS <br />PREVENTED FROM DOING SO BY THE EASEMENT UPON WHICH NO PERMANENT STRUCTURE <br />MAY BE PLACED. HE FURTHER NOTED THAT HE DOES NOT WISH TO BUILD THE GARAGE <br />ON THE ADJACENT LOT WHICH HE OWNS AS HE MAY LATER WISH TO SELL THIS LOT. <br />CHAIRMAN SIEBERT STATED HE FELT THIS MATTER SHOULD GO TO THE <br />BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT, AND ATTORNEY COLLINI AGREED. IT WAS POINTED OUT TO <br />MR. MATTHEWS AND MR. FRANK THAT THE RELEASING OF EASEMENTS REQUIRES <br />ADVERTISING AND PREPARING OF DOCUMENTS BY THE PROPERTY OWNERS, WHICH IS <br />COSTLY AND THE BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT CAN EITHER GRANT THE USE OF THE EASE- <br />MENT OR WAIVE THE SETBACK LINE WHICH WOULD ALLOW THEM TO CARRY OUT THEIR <br />PROJECTS, <br />ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER WODTKE, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER Loy, <br />THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDED TO THE APPLICANTS THAT THEY PETITION <br />THE BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT FOR RELIEF IN THE MATTED OF THEIR REAR LOT LINE <br />EASEMENTS AND AGREED THAT THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WILL NOTIFY <br />THE BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT THAT WE HAVE NO OBJECTION TO THIS REQUEST, <br />ADMINISTRATOR JENNINGS INFORMED THE BOARD THAT AS THEY HAD <br />