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MINUTES OF THE ORONO PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Monday, June 16,2003 6:00 o’clock p.m. has capacity for storing at least 4 vehicles. If this wall is allowed to be replaced, staff would recommend that the area outside of the 3' gravel shoulder be maintained in grass rather than be graveled or paved for paricing area. After reviewing 5 issues for consideration, Gaf&on restated the staff recommendation that the retaining wall system on the lake side of the road be denied, and the applicant directed to remove the offending walls and apply for a building permit to construct a short 5* stairway if pedestrian access is necessary. Furthermore, staff recommends that design detail be provided by the applicant regarding the proposed wall on the house side of the street. If this wall is approved, it should be located within the property, not on the right-of- way, and screened with vegetation to soften its visual impact from the lake. The area between the wall and the road should not be paved, graveled or otherwise allowed to become a parking area, except for a 3* gravel shoulder adjacent to the existing pavement John Thimmesh, 1945 Fagemess Point Road, voiced his support of the project. Mr. Roberts stated that it was never his intent to create a gravel parking area in the 0-75 ’ zone, in fact, he maintained that this was the only parking that accompanied the home when they first bought it. He added that he would prefer it not be there at all. Roberts explained that, last year, they obtained a permit to run water under the road to their lakeshore, at that time, the retaining wall near the home was damaged by trucks, and now he was merely trying to repair the wall not realizing he needed permission to do so. In addition, he had removed some oily old timbers fix)m below the roadway, and replaced them with new near the lakeshore to provide them with safer easier access to die lakeshore. Chair Smith explained that the City is particularly sensitive to lake yard and access work in the 0-75 ’ setback zone and indicated that the lake side retaining wall would need to be removed. Roberts stated that he had completed the retaining wall on either side of the steps at the PAGE 14 of 31 • ! i