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r a <br /> Steve Coddon <br /> April 26,2007 <br /> Page 2 <br /> 4. Your proposed location for the sewer is generally following the existing driveway <br /> serving the Puzak residence on Lot 30. It is the City's understanding that that <br /> driveway exists on an easement that does not include the right to install and <br /> maintain a municipal sewer line nor a private connection. New easements would <br /> have to be granted to the City. Private construction of a sewer line in that location <br /> will require variances for work within 75' of the lake. Construction of the sewer <br /> as proposed may require an open cut as much as 20' or more in width, as well as <br /> dewatering. <br /> 5. Based on the survey you provided and surveys for neighboring properties <br /> appearing in City files, it is questionable whether your properties abut a public <br /> road. Future development of your properties to create one or more building sites <br /> will have to include the extension of a public or private road meeting City of <br /> Orono standards. This may necessitate the acquisition of easements or land from <br /> neighboring properties, a process in which the City will likely not participate. <br /> 6. As we have discussed, the mere legal combination of existing lots of record to <br /> create new parcels exceeding 0.5 gross acres does not in any way guarantee the <br /> buildability of those newly created lots. The City's requirements for lakeshore <br /> setbacks and the non-buildability of wetlands, have been in place for many <br /> decades and have had a clear limiting impact on the development of these <br /> properties by past potential developers, as can be witnessed in the various <br /> development application files on record. The more recent wetland ordinances that <br /> require wetland buffers and structure setbacks from those buffers, will have a <br /> further limiting impact. <br /> The above comments merely touch on the variety of issues that surround development of <br /> the Baldur Park properties. That is why we have recommended that you begin the <br /> development process via a sketch plan application, which will begin a more <br /> comprehensive review of these and additional issues. . <br /> Please contact me at 952-249-4600 if you have questions. I have you scheduled to meet <br /> with me at 10:00 a.m. on W dnesday, May 9 to discuss the application process. <br /> Sincerely, <br /> ,:_...ii/L.- I( - /.--- <br /> Michael P. Gaffron <br /> Planning Director <br /> cc: Ben Gozola at Schoell Madson <br /> Tom Casey <br /> ., <br />