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MINUTES OF THE <br /> ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING <br /> Monday,June 10,2019 <br /> 7:00 o'clock p.m. <br /> Walsh stated the Council can discuss variances all day long, but until a specific request comes before the <br /> City Council,they would just be spinning their wheels. The City Council can talk discuss philosophically <br /> what the City's practice is,but that the Council has discussed cleaning these up. <br /> Seals commented she does not believe the Council has actually sat down and discussed it and that she <br /> would be in favor of discussing it at a work session. <br /> Printup noted the Comprehensive Plan has a section that talks about the fire lanes. <br /> Walsh stated the DNR also says you should reserve an easement for utilities. <br /> Seals stated she is fine with voting on it at some point,but she would like additional discussion about it at <br /> a work session. <br /> Crosby indicated he is on the fence and that he is fine with a work session to try to come up with some <br /> type of consensus. <br /> Rief stated other properties related to the fire department are being brought forward at the next work <br /> session and this could be one of them. <br /> Printup commented this situation is similar to Chevy Chase who were claiming a ditch was a park and <br /> who is to say that those neighbors are not going to request to divide that. <br /> Walsh stated you have to evaluate the request on its merits. <br /> Printup stated he does not want to open up a can of worms and that the City has had cases where there is <br /> public property where some have argued it has been beautified. <br /> Johnson stated this is an applicant who headed in this direction, at least in part, based on Staff direction <br /> that this is one option, and that he wants to be sensitive to that. If this was not on the lake,you could get <br /> rid of this easement right away, but because it is,he can understand why there is some pause. Johnson <br /> indicated he would like to hear from the applicant. <br /> Stephen Paidosh,Applicant, stated their objective was to remove the existing residence and build a new <br /> home on the property. The home was originally built back in 1962,and that he is not sure if there were <br /> fill issues at some point, but the foundation has settled. The windows have been corrected from time to <br /> time, and if you try to structurally fix the foundation, all the windows would need to be fixed again. <br /> Basically one of the issues they ran into was in relation to wanting to relocate the public street access to <br /> Park Drive. There is an incline on the driveway that faces north, and when something faces north, salt is <br /> not as effective and the driveway becomes snow packed. The relocation of the driveway requires an <br /> easement and a variance to access due to a utility pole and a stop sign to get onto County Road 19. If the <br /> driveway were relocated, it would come out too close to the stop sign, which would probably be an issue. <br /> In working with an architect, an L-shaped house was designed with the garage facing Park Drive to give <br /> them a straight shot to the road. There is actually a tarred area from when they put in the drainage ditch a <br /> few years ago and the home on the other side of the proposed vacation uses that. <br /> Page 10 of 20 <br />