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To: From: Dale: Subject: Chair Ha\\'n and Planning Commission Ron Moorse, City Administrator Mike GafTron, Planning Director February 15,2002 #2755 City of Orono, 340 Willow Drive North - Long Lake Fire Station 1) Conditional Use Permit for Hose Tower 2) 2-Lot Subdivision including Setback Variance Site Area: 6.17 acres including Willow Dnve Zjonlng District: RR-IB, Single Family Rural Residential, 2-acre minimum Comprehensive Pian: The area east of Willow Drive to the Long Lake border, south of the railroad right-of- way and north of Watertown Road, is guided for single-family residential use at a density of 2-3 units per acre. Thsi area was added to Orono’s MUSA with the recently adopted 2000-2020 Comp Plan. Summary of Request The new Long Lake Fire Station will be located on property in Orono at 340 Willow Drive North. This property was purchased by the City of Orono with the primary intent of providing a fire station site approximately 3 acres in area, per the agreement between Orono and Long Lake. The remaining easterly portion of the site is intended to be divided off, creating a building site to be owned by Orono and likely used for residential purposes. As a municipal building owned in part by Orono, the Fire Station is a permitted use in this residential zone, with no specific code requirement for a formal site plan review by Planning Commission. For purposes of applying appropriate development standards to the Fire Station development, it is being considered most similar to an institutional use such as a church or a school. The general performance standards which apply to similar development in residential zones will apply, such as the standard 30* height limitations, 50* building setback from all lot lines, 10' parking setback, etc. The site planning and building design process has resulted in a plan which meets Orono’s development standards with the exception of two items: 1) The existence of delineated wetlands along the south boundary has resulted in the road being placed slightly further north on the site than originally anticipated, and it will curve northward as it nears the rear of the fire station site. This results in the need for a setback variance for the station. The setback from the south side of the building to the proposed road right-of-way is 40’ instead of the required 50'. 2) The fire station building plans include the possibility (as a bid alternate) of a 20'x22' hose tower with flat roof extending to a height of 34*-8" above grade where the maximum allowed height is 30'. This tower could be allowed only via a conditional use permit per Zoning Code Section 10.75, Subd. 1. ~“"T; « .