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EOF Investments, d.b.a. Browns Bay Marina 1444 Shoreline Drive Orono, MN 55391 Orono City Hall City Council 2750 Kelley Parkway Orono, MN 55356 May 22, 2018 Dear Mr. Mayor and Orono City Council Representatives, , It was recently brought to our attention that our property has come up for discussion at the past few City Council meetings on April 23rd and May 14th, 2018 regarding our application for a rental license(s) at 1440 and 1442 Shoreline Drive. It was very disappointing to hear that our property was singled out for discussion at the April 23rd meeting rather than being licensed as part of the consent agenda along with every other property up for licensing. It was even more disappointing to find out that our property was made an individual line item on the Agenda for the May 14th meeting, and we were not even notified or made aware of this fact. Had we been notified we would have made an effort to attend. We have reviewed the video of these past two Council meetings and would like to offer the following in rebuttal, first to clear up some history about the property and secondly to correct some inaccuracies on a line item basis. Your Boat Club has operated at the site since 2011. At that time,the City of Orono informed us that there was a city ordinance that was passed back in the 1980's that required a "Boat Club" to obtain a Conditional Use Permit(CUP)to operate within the City of Orono. We applied for and ultimately obtained a CUP, but there was some discussion by the Council around whether or not a Boat Club would consume more parking. We felt strongly and argued that a boat in a slip is a boat in a slip and it does not consume more parking regardless of whether it is a boat for a private tenant or a rental "club" boat. We still feel this argument is self-evident. But the Council decided to be prudent and approve the CUP along with a restriction limiting us to 20 Club Boats, while acknowledging that there is no restriction limiting us to the number of rental boats that could operate on the property. There has been some recent discussion by the Council regarding this restriction with references to us being limited to 20 slips. [We want to make it crystal clear to the Council that we are restricted to having 20 Club Boats in use, not 20 slips]. We are not restricted to the number of rental boats we can operate, and we have always abided by the terms of our CUP. There has been some talk at the past few meetings about how much parking is required at the site and how many slips are present. With regards to marinas,the City of Orono requires 6 parking spaces for every 10 boat slips. So our marina -which hasC8lslips- is required to have 59 parking spots. Th or l(►P7, 6 ' riserpt✓'f" vtu re, itum 20 slips w4., be ci&ve pd 40 -Loot c/.j aces 2. '►7 5 Q5 3 Otter u r�gd�r� 0400. yew."