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r <br />Orono City Council <br />October 16, 1978 <br />Page -2- <br />not the nature of the hazard be defined? <br />No. 14: V.liy not define the real problem, which as we understand <br />iFTs"that after the station was opened up and in operation a <br />conmercial marina was located across the highway, and that in <br />recent years the station site on week-ends has been used for <br />oarking by the marina, with the result that on week-ends in <br />late spring, summer or early fall it has been necessary for <br />the Orono Public Safety Department to control the crossing of <br />pedestrians from the station site to the marina. The finding <br />as presently drafted is certainly overbroad and so general that <br />it really means nothing. <br />No. 15; When did these complaints start? What is their exact <br />nature? Is part of the hazard caused by an adjoining property <br />owner using the dedicated street as his front yard? <br />No. 19; This station is not as vestigial as this finding would <br />imply, and therefore it is inaccurate. The fact is that for <br />years prior to 1954 J. V. Spates ran a service station selling <br />Kunz oil products and also nad a coal business office on this <br />site. Additionally, we would point out that since its inception <br />the marina has clearly expanded its operations. Therefore, the <br />station is not the only’temnant”. <br />No. 40; Motor fuel is motor fuel, regardless who pumps it, and <br />candy^nd pop have clearly been sold on this site in the paA . <br />Therefore, it is overbroad and sweeping to say that the referenced <br />application is an expansion of the historic use of this property. <br />To be accurate it should be reflected that the sale of milk, <br />bread, beer, ice, and ice cream would be an expansion of the <br />historic use of this property. <br />No. 41; Is this true? Would not such combined usesin a B-1 <br />area with a conditional use permit for motor fuel sales be con­ <br />sistent with the ordinances? Also, is not the North Shore Union <br />76 located at the junction of Hwy. 51 and 135 in the City of <br />Orono, and does it not combine and advertise the sale of motor <br />fuel and ice cream and hot sandwiches (snacks) and bait and the <br />like? <br />No. 42; We respectfully submit that gas stations in and of <br />themselves, unlike theatres, marinas, or other sources of <br />recreation and amusement do not generate traaflc. Rather, <br />they depend upon traffic for existence. Pedestrian traffic