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JUDSON �\iqe DAYTON <br />RECEIVED 825 OLD CRYSTAL BAY ROAD <br />MAR 0 9 2018 ORONO, �-VmNmESOTA <br />CITY OF ORONO <br />March 8, 2018 <br />City of Orono <br />Attn. Melanie Curtis, Planner <br />Planning & Zoning Office <br />2759 Kelley Parkway <br />Orono, MN 55356 <br />Re: Application for waiver of sanitary sewer connection requirement, regarding <br />requested plat approval for the two lot plat of Topside. <br />Ladies and Gentlemen: <br />My wife and I own the property at 825 Old Crystal Bay Road, Orono, Minnesota. <br />We have filed an application for plat approval with the City. We hope to divide our one <br />parcel into two parcels. The total parcel is 20.75 acres in size. We are proposing to <br />split off the westerly portion of our land, such that there would be two parcels in place of <br />the one existing parcel. The main parcel on which our house is located would be 13.57 <br />acres. The second parcel, the westerly parcel, would be 5.17 acres. A single-family <br />home would be constructed on the westerly parcel as well. (The difference between the <br />total acreage and the individual parcel acreage is explained by the Outlot at 1.64 acres <br />and Old Crystal Bay Road at .37 acres.) <br />In preparation for the pending application, we performed, at quite some expense, <br />percolation testing and other work in anticipation of establishing septic systems and <br />drain fields on the property. As we have determined, both the existing site and the <br />proposed site, have more than adequate size and soils conditions to support required <br />septic sites. <br />Recently, however, we were informed that we might have to install a sanitary <br />sewer line to the two lots, to obtain City approval to add one additional lot. We have <br />also learned, though, that "extraordinary situations" might allow for "deviations... in those <br />instances where considered justified by the city." Accordingly, we are asking that the <br />1 <br />