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Street from Mrs. Eagle’s blue house with gingerbread trim at the comer of Gay and Wheeler streets. Mrs. Eagle said the house was designed for three bedrooms, but that she was planning for only one bedroom for her daughter and son-in-law, who are artists. The other two bedrooms were to be used as studios, she said.
Mrs. Eagle said she had bought the lot with her house on it in 1978, and she bought the lot with the shed in 1979 for $3,500 with the idea of putting a guest house on it.
Mrs. Frizzell asked Mrs. Eagle if she realized she had bought a nonconforming lot when she purchased it in 1979. “It never came up,” Mrs. Eagle answered.
She said when she rebuilt her house she left a connection on the septic system for an additional line to be added to serve a bathroom on the other lot.
Attorney Douglas Baumgardner, representing Mrs. Eagle said that denying her a variance to build a house would present her with a “hardship approaching confiscation.” He said the house Mrs. Eagle proposed to build would be “harmonious with the overall character of the town.”
He had real estate agent Alex Sharp as an “expert witness,” who said if Mrs. Eagle got her variance, the property would be worth about $15,000. However, if she did not get a variance to build a house, the property would be worth between $500 and $1,000, Mr. Sharp said.
Diane Bruce, who owns the Rabbit Gum property across the end of Gay Street from the shed lot, opposed granting the variance.
She said she did not object to the house being proposed but felt it was “an inappropriate location.” She said the comprehensive plan and zoning ordinance require that the town government “prevent congestion on the
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