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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday, May 10, 2021 6:00 o’clock p.m. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Page 19 of 34 14. LA21-000017 – JOSEPH & SARA THULL, 480 BIG ISLAND, PERMIT FOR DOCK ON CITY RIGHT-OF-WAY (BAY PLACE) – UPDATE – Continued on City right-of-way, an individual’s dock (whoever owns it) has to remove it from City right-of-way without trespassing on adjacent private property lines. Walsh thinks that would go without saying. Knowing how hard it is to know where property lines are, it would behoove everyone to have some kind of marker so people know. Ms. Champlin noted that is part of the discussion – who is going to do that surveying and demarcation of the private property lines. She said they actually got it wrong and all the trees she thought were to be cut down are actually still on her property so they will stay. Walsh thinks it would behoove them to demark the north and south start and end of the back access. If Ms. Champlin is worried about her property, she should mark her property. Ms. Champlin stated they will get a survey with markers from their shoreline up to the road that connects all the right-of-ways. Walsh would put the onus on her if she is worried about someone being on her property, to mark the boundaries of that property. Ms. Champlin noted there is a lot of wildlife and when there is a storm the wildlife brings ducks and cranes and she would like to keep it preserved and not very developed. If the City does not mind that she has a lot of markers demarking whose property is whose, they should not be responsible for corralling people and keeping them on the City right-of-way. The Council agreed. Mr. Thull would like some clarifications. What he thinks he heard Johnson say is that they would prefer one right-of-way and one dock owner, shared, but are open to different right-of-ways as they are there for the access. Johnson replied that is right. Mr. Thull thinks in the LMCD in terms of length of dock to get out to 3-4 feet of water, can the dock be to 4 feet of water? Johnson thinks they keep it at the distance until they figure it out. They are trying to do a reasonable length (which is somewhat arbitrary) but three sections is 24 feet. Perhaps there is a better location and one of these access points may be better without having to go way out which is less intrusive to the neighbors. If they can at least limit the scope for the neighbors, and if that is not a possibility, someone would have to come back to the Council and say that.