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MINUTES OF THE <br />ORONO PLANNING COMMISSION <br />Tuesday, January 21, 2020 <br />6:30 o'clock p.m. <br />Barnhart said this would impact all grading and land alteration activities in the City. The goal is not <br />necessarily to change the regulation but to better reorganize it and, in certain areas, propose change. He <br />referenced Exhibit B which illustrates an existing regulation and also a proposed table attempting to <br />demonstrate the same regulation. <br />Barnhart stated they are proposing to remove the grading and land alteration portion of the shoreline <br />regulations, which includes building height and hardcover and RPUD requirements, and put that in the <br />existing grading and land alteration chapter. That change takes up about 15 pages of a 25 -page document. <br />Libby asked if the ultimate adoption would encompass City parks within Orono. <br />Barnhart answered that it would apply to all property within the City. <br />Barnhart stated he would be happy to meet with any of the Commissioners off-line if they have questions <br />in advance of the workshop but thought a workshop is appropriate for this type of application. <br />Erickson noted there is a new added definition regarding stockpiling, which is defined as ten cubic yards <br />or more of soil/aggregate in a concentrated state. He said ten cubic yards is a small number. If you have a <br />3x3 foot square of floor space, that is barely enough for a desk chair, which is nine square feet. If it's one <br />foot high of dirt, that's nine cubic yards. When he was a kid, he had a sandbox; that amount is not even a <br />decent sandbox. <br />Libby said 13 cubic yards would be close to a standard dump truck. <br />McCutcheon stated Erickson's example is cubic feet and the amount is three times larger than what <br />Erickson was talking about. He agreed it is relatively small. He asked if that was in line with what the <br />DNR recommends with other communities. <br />Barnhart said the document indicates official stockpiling will require a permit, whether it's a City permit <br />or a Council permit. Anything less than that amount will not require a permit. Staff looked at it from a <br />potential impact. If you have a dump truck that comes in and dumps a load of black dirt on a side property <br />line, the City does not want it sitting there forever and wants a mechanism to keep it moving along. <br />Barnhart said whether it was too small was an appropriate question and the Planning Commission will <br />have that question on a lot of Staffs thresholds which is what he hopes to discuss at the workshop. <br />Gettman asked Staff to bring to the meeting some real examples and how they would apply both to the <br />existing and proposed language and some of the IUPs the Planning Commission has already dealt with. <br />Then Staff could say under the new rule it would or would not work and what the impact would be. <br />McCutcheon referenced a house being built this year and said the huge pile of black dirt was driving him <br />nuts when he drove past it. He noted that would impede someone's shore view and if that was there more <br />than 90 days, it would be frustrating. <br />Barnhart said that is why he is introducing it. He is not comfortable with the current stockpiling <br />regulation. <br />Barnhart asked the Planning Commission to table the action until February 18. <br />Page 13 of 14 <br />