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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday, June 10, 2019 7:00 o'clock p.m. Mattick indicated the City would need to decide exactly what they want an easement for and that the Council needs to be clear about what they are reserving. An easement covering drainage and utilities is broader than sewer since it would also include water and electric and gas. Johnson stated he is not as concerned about overly encumbering it since logically it is hard to anticipate what the City will need it for. Johnson asked whether the pipe that is shown on the shaded portion of the survey extends all the way to the lake. Paidosh indicated it does. Johnson stated the easement would be carried all the way down. Curtis noted the City Engineer recommended ten and ten. Mattick asked whether there is a legal description for that gray area. David Cumberton, Bergquist Land Surveying, indicated he did write a drainage/utility easement. Hennepin County will decide the final line and that he ran a line tangent to the curb and brought it straight in to give the City more land where the catch basin is. The easement would cover ten feet on either side of the pipe. Mattick stated that area is already described then. Johnson moved, Crosby seconded, Application No. LA19-000017, Stephen and Jennifer Paidosh, 4300 North Shore Drive, to direct Staff to draft an approval resolution for the vacation of the rights-of-way of Forest Boulevard and Bluff Street situated between 4300 North Shore Drive and 1453 Park Drive, and to require a drainage and utility easement be provided by the applicant as described, subject to confirmation, and subject to the applicant and the City reaching an agreement on compensation to the City. VOTE: Ayes 5, Nays 0. (Recess taken from 8:49 to 8:57 p.m.) 13. LA19-000027 MIKE JOHNSRUD, 135 LUCE LINE RIDGE, VARIANCE Oakden stated the applicant is requesting a variance to exceed the allowed square footage for an oversize accessory structure from 1,200 to 1,432 square feet. The property is located in a planned residential development within the RR-lA zoning district. The property is permitted to have a total of 2,400 square feet of accessory building. It is permitted to have one oversized accessory structure, but no single structure may exceed 1,200 square feet. The existing detached building was built in 2017. The property owner is requesting to add a 280 square foot addition to the existing 1,152 square foot building, creating a 1,432 square foot building. The Code allows a second accessory structure on the property not to exceed 999 square feet. Staff finds the submitted application does not meet the practical difficulty standards. The request for a variance does not establish any demonstrable difficulty unique to the property. The applicant has indicated they can meet the city Code by building a separate accessory structure. There are not any unique circumstances with the land or the use to support a variance to allow an accessory building larger than the code would permit. Further, the applicant has not demonstrated that the property is unique to Page 14 of 20