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Zoning File #1691 October 17r 1991 Page 4 It may be your first inclination to assume that you will recommend denial but we hope before motions to deny are raised we ask that you delay any form.al action until all information is presented by the applicant. David Squire, the planner for the project and an associate of McCombs Frank Roos Associates, the Orono staff and consultants have all worked very closely together this past month to prepare the preliminary submittals. Additional information has been called for by the various reviewing agencies and has yet to be submitted by applicant. (The delay for applicant's planner has been the inability to arrange for the necessary site inspections by these agencies within a reasonable time frame.) It has been the goal of both Mr. Squire and staff to provide the best possible subdivision application given conflict between the directives of our current code and the need to obtain 13 lots via a conventional plat. We look for your assistance, not your criticism. The subdivision will be presented to the Council we hope with the Planning Commission's input. B. Rezoning w If we were to achieve a 13 lot plat of the 24 acre property via a conventional plat, the plat had to be rezoned to 1 acre. All of the formal agreements dealing with the annexation failed to provide directions as to how the 13 units were to be implemented -— but it was to be accomplished per Orono Codes. At first it was thought through a Planned Residential Development similar to a Sugar Woods but the agreements did discuss lots and the applicant has pursued and filed for a conventional 13 lot plat. All R-IA standards will be applicable as already stated above. In reviewing Exhibit P, the 1 acre per unit appears to be a good buffer between the 2 acre densities within Orono and the surrounding LL densities of 2 units per acre. The R-IA standards are as follows: 1. 2. 1 acre in area as property is sewered. Conservation areas (wetlands/flood plain) may intersect the lot but each lot must have a minimum 1/2 acre dry contiguous building pad. 3.35' setback for front and rear and 10' setbacks to the side. 26' setback from all wetland areas and the Ordinary High Water Mark of the creek (determined at the top of the bank). The DNR is currently determining the Ordinary High Water Mark of the lagoon or former sewer pond and a 26' setback must be maintained from the Ordinary High Water Mark of the lagoon. Specific lot configuration issues shall be reviewed under the preliminary subdivision comment section. I !■ irn ‘ f nr r in^i ~i i nfcrili^ifli