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MINUTES OF THE <br />ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING <br />Monday, May 10, 2021 <br />6:00 o’clock p.m. <br />_____________________________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />Page 12 of 34 <br /> <br />14. LA21-000017 – JOSEPH & SARA THULL, 480 BIG ISLAND, PERMIT FOR DOCK ON <br />CITY RIGHT-OF-WAY (BAY PLACE) – UPDATE – Continued <br /> <br />road they put in has sunken down and with a hard rain the road is all filled up. Right now there is a dock <br />that has been laying there for 6 years and is an eyesore. <br /> <br />Walsh agrees. <br /> <br />Mr. Uran asked the Council not to fill up wetlands and keep their word. <br /> <br />Walsh sat with Edwards and Olson the week before to talk about how to get the docks off the public <br />property. <br /> <br />Mr. Uran felt bad for the people that want a dock. He spoke with them and said he does not have any <br />objections to one dock down there as the guy has not had a dock there in 6 years. He said one boat, one <br />dock, he would be all for. <br /> <br />Chris Bollis, 370 Big Island and 220 Stubbs Bay Road, noted there is a lot of misinformation floating <br />around the island. It might be helpful if the City sent a legal notification telling people that this situation <br />is trying to be resolved so everyone is notified officially that Council is trying to work with residents to <br />find a solution. Mr. Bollis does not know if it should rest on the City to provide a dock for an inland <br />property owner; he thinks a private solution would be better, possibly an easement from a property owner. <br />Or the recreational seasonal zoning code could be modified to allow an inland owner to rent dock space <br />from an existing shoreline owner. He noted the ideas are different than the others and he is throwing them <br />out here to see what happens. <br /> <br />Johnson thinks that is where they started, the Thull’s tried to find a deal and that suggestion would have <br />been easiest for everyone. <br /> <br />Paul Marabellis, 130 Big Island, thinks the solution the City should look seriously at is going to the <br />southwest of this property. The property is just a stone’s throw from the lake to the southwest, and abuts <br />Three River’s Park land. If the City could work out a deal with Three River’s it could solve a lot of <br />problems. He does not think it is reasonable to ask someone to go all the way up to the north shore, for <br />example. On Big Island there is an advantage to having your boat close-at-hand, both for security and for <br />convenience. <br /> <br />Karen Backes, 170 Big Island, is not a property owner with a right-of-way next to them, so the resolution <br />does not affect her per se. As the Council has heard, there are a lot of options being tossed around and <br />misunderstandings among people. She agreed it would be helpful to have something that says what the <br />City is trying to do. When she looks at the plotting of the properties, she does not see 7 inland properties – <br />she sees 7 inland owners but 17 inland properties. Could those be sold off individually and then they are <br />talking about docks for 17 properties rather than 7? She does not know but thinks they need to be aware <br />and talk about it. Ms. Backes has an opinion on putting things on Party Bay; being on that end of the <br />property, they already deal with people coming to their cabins asking where the bus stop is, how to catch