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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday, September 14, 2020 6:00 o’clock p.m. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Page 13 of 26 considered and doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the plot. She would respect that the Council consider her concerns thoughtfully. Johnson asked Ms. Burwell if he understands that where the line is going on her property and he remembers doing a lot line rearrangement. Ms. Burwell said correct, that is the adjustment line. Johnson asked where the line is drawn right now what is the structure on the map where the red line crosses. Ms. Burwell said that is a rambler-style home built in the 1960’s and is the caretaker home. Johnson noted Ms. Burwell owns it but it’s a separate address. Ms. Burwell said that is correct, when they bought, their property had been proposed for a subdivision and she and Rod bought it the night before it was to come before the Council. They bought the land but 1075 was retained by Irwin and Alex and the Burwell’s always wanted to own it because they put together the original parcel that the Wells family built and lived on for 25 years. She said if they go up the driveway there is a greenhouse and up further there was a barn that burned down on which there are now three converted garages and a chicken coop, and there is also the original caretaker house to the property. She noted on the map, going out past the tennis court is the Green Trees property, which they purchased because it was contiguous to their property and the plan has been to give each of their sons a piece of land for their possible wedding gift, noting they tore the house down after they let the police and fire department “terrorize” the neighbors. She said no one was very sad to see the house go except the raccoons and the mice. Walsh noted in some of her comments regarding variances and changing rules, having those three lots, if they were ever there become lake lots are really no different than the lots Ms. Burwell herself has, as the lake lots are combined with the shoreline as well. So by combining those with the shoreline, they also become lake lots by the same combination, otherwise Ms. Burwell’s lots would not be lake lots on the main lake. He said it is pretty standard par for the course for that kind of issue. He asked to bring up the plat map and noted where Lot 1 is, if it was Line A, the house would just move up a little bit but is still there, so moving from Line A to Line C doesn’t really change the house right next door to her property it just changes the houses that are another lot over and another lot over. Ms. Burwell clarified unless Lot 3 is built first. Walsh said he’s just trying to answer Lot 1 because whether they have Line A or Line C, that house wouldn’t change a whole lot, it may need to move up 20 feet but it would still be there. Whether the Line changes isn’t going to affect Ms. Burwell’s house very differently, there will just be another house over a hundred yards or so and another house a hundred yards beyond that. He said she probably won’t even see those houses, he just wanted to react to the lines changing and impacting. He noted the Lines up at the top, assuming that proposed Line B is the Tanager lake ALS, and that line is just set by the lake and is a hard line already. Ms. Burwell said she is now aware that the Tanager lake line is based on the main house rather than the 1075 Millston Road house.