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MINUTES OF THE <br /> ORONO PLANNING COMMISSION <br /> Tuesday,January 21,2020 <br /> 6:30 o'clock p.m. <br /> Ms. Mueller said she thought the applicant consolidated the lots into one lot some time ago. <br /> Oakden said that they are two existing lots of record. <br /> Ms. Mueller asked if it is normal for the City to put a sewer line on somebody else's property so that they <br /> have this issue. <br /> Barnhart and Oakden answered that it is not normal. <br /> Ms. Mueller asked why it happened. <br /> Mr.Mueller stated the original owner of the property is deceased and there is no way to get an agreement. <br /> Ms. Mueller asked if anybody wanted to buy their house. <br /> Barnhart said he does not mean to give the message that the City will leave the property owners high and <br /> dry. There is an issue that the City wants and needs to resolve both in terms of the service line that goes <br /> through the property and the service line that connects the sanitary sewer to the commenter's property. He <br /> thinks the City wants to help address that issue. The applicant wants to address that issue in terms of <br /> access to the back lot.The commenters want to address the issue in terms of protecting their interests.He <br /> thinks all three parties need to work together because all three properties want something out of this <br /> arrangement and all three properties ultimately benefit. <br /> Mr. Mueller asked what he would do if Mr.Azad will not give him an easement. <br /> Barnhart said the City will continue to work with him. <br /> Ms. Mueller indicated that is what they did for 11 years for four feet of property. <br /> Barnhart said that is the posture the City will take. <br /> Ms. Mueller commented that Barnhart is lucky he does not live next door to him. <br /> Vice-Chair Erickson closed the public hearing at 6:57 p.m. <br /> McCutcheon said the Commission almost has to wait until the Ordinance allows for smaller lots. It is <br /> proposed in the next 20 years that this will happen but it is not there yet, and maybe the Commission <br /> should not be in a hurry and the decision should be made years from now. Presently the minimum lot size <br /> is two acres,and he thinks the Commission would need pretty good reasons why they would want to have <br /> a lot get smaller than two acres. He understands it was under two acres to begin with,but it would make <br /> the lot smaller than it is in a neighborhood which normally has two-acre lots. <br /> Gettman stated the request as written does not seem to be worthy of approval for numerous reasons,but it <br /> comes down to how to get the three groups together so this can be resolved. The permit request is not <br /> consistent with the neighborhood.The outlot was clearly not ever a property,and the applicant is trying to <br /> set it up to do something else. If the variance is not approved, he is still able to use the outlot but not able <br /> to potentially expand. If nothing else, look at what the neighbors have dealt with over the years. On that <br /> grounds alone he would have trouble approving this.The Commission has to send this to the Council and <br /> Page 5 of 14 <br />