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RUSSELL N. WILKINS ,`�= ' ' � �:Ji�
1045 Shoot Flying Hill Road HEALTH DEPT.
Centerville, MA 02632
July 8, 2014
Bruce Murphy, Director of Health
Town of Yazrnouth
1146 Route 28
So. Yannouth, MA 02664
Re: 3 Carrie Lane, South Yarmouth
Dear Mr. Murphy:
Thank you for taking the time to meet with me on Tuesday, July 151 regazding the above-address
and the number of designated"bedrooms"and the size of the septic system.
As I explained to you,rather inarticulately I am sure,the property was owned by my pazents and
in 1998 my brother was issued a building permit to enlazge the gazage to two bays and add an in-
law apartment over the garage. The plan also called for the removal of the wa11 between two
small bedrooms in the original house. However,rather than removing the enfire wall a passage
way was cut through the wall connecting the two rooms. One room has always been used as a
bedroom and the other as a den. I am told that,the house is listed in the town records as being
three bedrooms with a three bedroom sepric system.
Now that my pazents and brother have passed, the family is attempting to sell the property and
the inconsistency between the 1998 Applicarion for a Building Permit and the actual wnstrucrion
has been brought to my attention. The prospect buyers have indicated that they want the sma11
room to remain a den. They do not wish to make it or use it as a bedroom.
Accordingly, the faznily respectfully request that the Boazd of Health acknowledge that the
residence, as built, consists of three(3)bedrooms and a den or in the alternarive grant permission
to the family to create a four(4') foot opening,without doors,between the hall and the small
room and leave the wall between the two (2)rooms, as built,with the existing opening between
the rooms.
I have attached hereto a copy of the"floor plan"to the primary structure at 3 Carrie Lane which
was submitted with the Application for a Permit to Build in 1998. The passage way between the
two rooms which was created in 1998 is shown in red as is the alternative proposed opening
between the hall and the small room.
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Bruce Murpby,Director of Health
Town of Yarmouth
July 8,2414
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Will you kindly place this rnatter on the Board o£Health's agenda for Jnly 21, 2014, so that the
family can explore the apporhuiity af retaining the small room as a den without removing the
entire wall between the two rooms as was originally anriaipated.
As I will be out of town on July 21, 2014,my brother Fred Wilkins will appeaz at the hearing aad
present the farnily's pasitian and request.
Thank you for your assistance in this matter.
! Very tru2y yours,
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Rus 11 N.Wilkins
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