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1 <br />3.Rezoning of the property ISrom PUD/RR-IB One Family Rural Residential to PUD/B-6 <br />Highway Commercial District commercial retail/ofTice use is in keeping with the intent, <br />goals and policies of Amendment U2 of the 2000-2020 Orono Community <br />Management Plan (CMP) which re-guided Outlot A from Commercial - Professional <br />Office uses to Commercial • Retail/Office uses. <br />Per Municipal Zoning Code Section 78-1061, the minimum area for a rezoning in the <br />Highway 12 Corridor is 5 acres. The property is nominally 3.69 acres in area; <br />Outlot A was created in 2003 within the plat of STONEB.^Y specifically for future <br />commercial use, and platted as an outlot w'ith the intent that its future development be <br />via the PUD process. Because the site exists as a separate parcel with no abutting land <br />available for acquisition by the Developer, and because the proposed use conforms <br />to the CMP and the B-6 district, an area variance to allow rezoning of the site was <br />anticipated at the time the parcel w'as created. <br />Required lot area and lot width for the 3-6 District are 2.0 acres and 100 ’ <br />respectively. The development proposal creates two lots; Lot 1 = 1.98 acres / 370’, <br />and Lot 2 = 1.71 acres and 135'. Both lots are slightly undersized in area; however, <br />the site at 3.69 acres is limited by having no additional land available, which serves <br />as justification to allow the creation of lots smaller than the lot area requirement. <br />Other properties abutting or near the Property are used for or planned for uses which <br />are generally compatible with the proposed commercial retail/office uses. The <br />Property is at the northw-est quadrant of Highway 12 and Willow Drive. The other <br />three quadrants of that intersection are currently used for conunercial retail purposes, <br />r0 the north across Kelley Parkway is the StoneBay residential development which <br />will benefit from the neighborhood scale retail uses proposed for the Property. <br />The applicant has provided preliminary plans attached to this resolution as Exhibits <br />_ includmg site plan, grading plan, utility plan and landscaping plan (all dated 5-7-04) <br />and conceptual building construction plans (dated ________) which the Council finds <br />are sufficient to indicate the intent of the developer and the potential impacts cf the <br />project. <br />Page 2 of 19