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• <br /> STATE OF <br /> HaESoITa <br /> • <br /> DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES <br /> WATERS, 500 LAFAYETTE ROAD, ST. PAUL, MN 55155-4032 <br /> PHONE NO. (612) 296-4800 FILE NO. <br /> May 25, 1993 <br /> The Honorable Edward Callahan <br /> Mayor, City of Orono <br /> 2545 North Shore Dr. , Box 72 <br /> • <br /> Crystal Bay, MN 55323 <br /> Dear Mayor Callahan: • <br /> APPROVAL OF ORONO'S FLEXIBILITY REQUEST AND CONDITIONAL APPROVAL OF <br /> SHORELAND MANAGEMENT CONTROLS <br /> Thank you for submitting your community's request for flexibility <br /> from the statewide shoreland rules and your city's shoreland <br /> management controls which were previously adopted on February • <br /> 24, 1992 for the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) review. I <br /> will address the flexibility request first and then discuss DNR's <br /> conditional approval of the shoreland controls. • <br /> Your predecessor's letter of March 12, 1992 included city staff <br /> memoranda which requested flexibility from statewide standards in <br /> the following areas: <br /> 1. reduction of the structure setbacks from right-of-way • <br /> lines (primarily from streets and roads) , <br /> 2 . increase in the structure height limit, <br /> 3 . . elimination of the setback requirement for lock boxes of <br /> limited size, and <br /> 4 . relaxation of the impervious coverage requirement based <br /> on increased distances from the ordinary high water level <br /> of • is _ - = - - •= - • <br /> • <br /> The city's letters and attached materials adequately describe <br /> those situations and justifies its request. I am hereby fully <br /> _Approving the city's request for flexibility. . <br /> I also am informing you that the city's land use controls are <br /> conditionally approved at this time. Your controls will fully <br /> comply with Minnesota Rules, Parts 6120.2500 - 6120.3900 provided <br /> that the conditions identified during our review of your city's <br /> ordinances and outlined in the attached pages are addressed and <br /> incorporated into your land use controls during the next ordinance <br /> amendment process. <br /> We remain available to assist the city with the needed amendments • <br /> along with the implementation and enforcement of the shoreland <br /> controls. As required by the ordinance, notices of all hearings <br /> and decisions for variances, conditional uses, and amendments in <br /> shoreland areas must be submitted to the Department.. These should <br /> .. <br /> AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER <br />