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-:*i <br />Y- <br />>• <br />:“ '! ' 'via ORDINANCE f SECOND SERIES <br />i*<DA.:».'-ii 1^1, •iJJ <br />AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE MUNICIPAL ZONING CODE <br />^ SECTION 10.56, BY ADDING SECTION 10.56,_SDB^ISION 17 (T) <br />H’Vi V • <br />.HiilVi'I r <br />l||! . The City Council of Orono ordains as follows: <br />ii <br />PROHIBITING THE USE OP NON-BNCASBD STYROFOAM <br />AS A DOCK FLOTATION DEVICE <br />The Municipal Code of the City of Orono is amended by adding <br />4, Ordinance #______, Second Series: <br />Section 1. Orono Municipal Zoning Code Section 10.56, <br />Subdivision 17 is amended by adding Subsection (T) to read as <br />follows: <br />(T): Floating docks as platforms. Because the disintegration of <br />styrofoam dock flotation blocks leads to floating styrofoam beads <br />washing up onto the shoreline, causing a visual blight on the <br />shoreland landscape, and thereby creating a public nuisance, the <br />use of non—encased styrofoam blocks or sheets for dock and <br />platform flotation is prohibited subject to the following <br />regulations: <br />1."Non-encased styrofoam" means any brand of expanded <br />polystyrene beads molded into a block, sheet or other <br />shape that does not have a permanent casing, covering <br />or coating which would eliminate disintegration of the <br />molded block or shee^ in ‘ndividual beads or chunks <br />as a result of ice act -i : <':"'imals or normal activity <br />by dock users. <br />This ordinance applies to all new, private and <br />commercial dock construction, regardless whether such <br />dock is permanent or seasonal in nature, occurring <br />after the date of adoption of this ordinance. <br />The owners of any existing permanent or seasonal dock <br />constructed with non-encased stY£of.£a.S! shall <br />discontinue use of the non-encased styrofoam as a <br />flotation device per the following compliance schedule: <br />No more than 2/3 of the length of a given dock may <br />be supported by non-encased styrofoam after <br />January 1, 1993. <br />No more than 1/3 of the length of a given dock may <br />^ be supported by non-encased styrofoam after <br />January 1, 1994. <br />No portion of any dock may be supported by non- <br />encased styrofoam after January 1, 1995. <br />a <br />1