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MINUTES OF THE <br />ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING <br />Monday, September 14, 2020 <br />6:00 o’clock p.m. <br />_____________________________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />Page 11 of 26 <br /> <br />Walsh said once there are three properties in a row, they wouldn’t do an average lakeshore setback three <br />properties over, it would be with the properties next door. Therefore once there are three properties it <br />takes away the farther neighbors. <br /> <br />Johnson said maybe he has it wrong and asked if it is already platted and noted it doesn’t exist yet. <br /> <br />Walsh replied he’s saying if it was platted, those red lines aren’t the red line they’d be looking at, instead <br />they’d be looking at different lines and wants to make sure that information is not missing. <br /> <br />Johnson said exactly. <br /> <br />Walsh said Lot 4 doesn’t matter as it’s not a lake lot, and regarding Lots 1, 2 and 3, their line is in the <br />middle of the marsh. <br /> <br />Printup said point to point, as they already talked about it, goes with the contours of the land and out at <br />Walters Port with the corners to corners, they put that to the side because they looked at the lakeshore. <br /> <br />Crosby said they also pushed it back pretty far. <br /> <br />Walsh said the question is, does the Council want to approve the plat because once they say they can go <br />plat it, deal with the lines as they are, then it’s not the red lines the Council is looking at. He noted <br />they’re not deciding that Lot 2 should build way up there, if it’s platted this way, Lot 2 can build it within <br />75 feet or as close to the wetland as they want to, whatever the setbacks are. <br /> <br />Crosby asked if its 75 feet back from the wetland or lakeshore. <br /> <br />Barnhart said he thinks the setback needs to be 20 feet back from the wetland. <br /> <br />Walsh said they’re pushing it even farther from the wetland by creating Line C. <br /> <br />Crosby said he’d like to hear what the neighbors think. <br /> <br />Tim Whitten of Whitten Associates, representing the Jacobs Family Trust said he is here with Mark <br />Gronberg, the Civil Engineer who created the plans they are looking at today. He said it’s an <br />extraordinary condition with lakes on both sides of the property and there is a single house on one side <br />and another house setback a tremendous amount because of a wetland. He said to use that as a guiding <br />point to determine how far the houses can be towards the lake is extraordinary in this case. If they look at <br />the scale, they can see how far back they really are, the houses are over 200 feet back from the lake with <br />Line C, so it’s not a developable property if they can’t set the line in that location. His position is that <br />what is shown on Line C is a pretty fair position and when there are two properties next door that are 10- <br />12 acres and are setback from the lake by 200 feet, then the property next to it must be setback by 200 <br />feet or greater and he thinks that is unfortunate for the property in the middle. He welcomed questions. <br /> <br />Crosby asked the feedback they’ve had from the neighbors. <br /> <br />Mr. Whitten responded they’ve had neighbor meetings and everybody loved it, there have been no issues <br />whatsoever. He said they could hear from Barbara Burwell who is present tonight and she has been very <br />gracious.