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FIA I R./lei LVl V if i i j CWROVVWU INSTITUTE Pequo* Les...,.-��. NEW BUSINESS—REVIEW VARIANCE APPLICATION FORM Agenda Item:7(a) Background Information: The Planning Commission should review the updated variance application for. The questions on the application should directly reflect the criteria on which the application is decided. Applicable Regulations: Section 17-3.2. DEFINITIONS 180. Practical Difficulties. The property owner proposes to use the property in a reasonable manner not permitted by an official control; the plight of the landowner is due to circumstances unique to the property not created by the landowner; and the variance, if granted, will not alter the essential character of locality. Economic considerations alone do not constitute practical difficulties. Practical difficulties include but are not limited to, inadequate access to direct sunlight for solar energy systems. Section 17-11.7 VARIANCES 6. Variances shall be decided within the required time frame with consideration for the following: A. The applicant establishes that there are practical difficulties, as defined in this ordinance, in complying with the official control, and B. The plight of the landowner is due to circumstances unique to the property not created by the landowner, and C. The deviation from the Ordinance with any attached conditions will still be in harmony with the general purposes and intent of the Ordinance and-the Comprehensive Plan, and D. The variance will not create a land use not permitted in the zone, and E. The variance will not alter the essential character of the locality, and F. The variance is not for economic reasons alone, but reasonable use of the property does not exist under this Chapter. Pequot Lakes Staff Report 7(a)_1 July 18,2013