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MINUTES OF THE <br />ORONO PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING <br />Monday, May 21, 2018 <br />6:30 o'clock p.m. <br />Thiesse noted the house footprint is at the right elevation, but the house floor will be pretty much at grade <br />from where the house is currently sitting. <br />Blackwell stated the road between the two homes is approximately 20 feet wide with no curbs and that he <br />has a question for how they can go about getting some kind of parking plan in place or a plan for getting <br />vehicles in and out. Blackwell indicated it is a safety concern given the children in the area. Blackwell <br />commented he does not know what the precedent is with projects like this and whether a parking plan is <br />created but that in his view that should be addressed. Blackwell stated there are a lot of issues on Lyman <br />currently with vehicles that come in and that this winter the city plow ripped up all the sod near the corner <br />and that he had to replace it this year. Blackwell stated he would rather have a good conversation about it <br />and that he would like to understand the rules for moving vehicles in and out. <br />Thiesse stated right now it would be nothing more than city enforcement and that construction traffic <br />would only occur during the permitted construction hours. <br />Blackwell asked whether there would be any limitations on whether parking would be allowed on both <br />sides of the street. <br />Thiesse noted if vehicles are parked on both sides, emergency vehicles might not be able to make it <br />through. <br />Barnhart stated typically in a variance application request parking is not addressed and that perhaps the <br />neighbors could submit a petition to the City requesting parking be limited to one side of the street. <br />Thiesse asked whether the conditional use permit will still happen if the City Council is not going to grant <br />the second driveway access. <br />Curtis stated the second access is very important to the applicant but that it is unclear whether there is <br />another way to resolve that. Staff encouraged the applicant to explore another option and the applicant's <br />engineer tried to come up with a different solution as well. Curtis stated the applicant did attempt to <br />address it without having a second driveway. <br />Carlson stated the second driveway is not feasible unless all the trees are removed due to the steepness of <br />the area. Carlson indicated the applicant has a work van that he wants to park in the lower garage and that <br />the proposed location is about the only spot the engineer could determine. <br />Theodore Bonnett, 40 and 45 Smith Avenue, stated there is unpermitted work going on at the property <br />this evening and that he has talked to the neighbors 40 to 60 times as well as spoken with Staff about <br />various issues. Bonnett stated when he tries to get home, the construction workers look at him like he is <br />the issue because they have to move their trucks. <br />Bonnett stated in his view Barnhart has not done a good job at 60 Smith and that even though that project <br />supposedly finished a year ago, things are still happening on the property. Bonnett stated he is just asking <br />for some help to mitigate this from happening again. Bonnett stated when the police do show up, they do <br />a great job, but that it took around 19 calls to the police station and staff before they came out. Bonnett <br />stated he does not want to bother the Planning Commission about this problem and that he wanted to <br />broker a solution even before work at 60 Smith started, which did not happen. Bonnett noted a fire truck <br />