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■WJ <br />City of ORONO <br />ItoRONO' <br />L - ‘ <br />RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL <br />NO. 1167_ _ _ _ _ <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the <br />City of Orono hereby denies said conditional use permit application based <br />upon the following findings of fact: <br />1. The property is located in the RR-IB rural residential use <br />district, which district requires at least 2.0 acres of land <br />for each residential dwelling. This property consists of four <br />separate tax parcels which if coajbined would total 3.7 acres. <br />2. The surrounding neighborhood consists of a historic <br />cluster of residential dwellings located on lots of 1/3 to <br />1/2 acre each, which density is greater than that permitted <br />in the Zoning Code and is greater than that proposed in the <br />city's Comprehensive Land Use Plan. <br />3. The purpose of the 2-acre minimum zoning requirements is <br />to eliminate the need for sanitary sewer service and other <br />extension of costly urban services into the rural area.i <br />4. The historic density of the Arbor Street neighborhood <br />already has raised questions concerning the ultimate <br />probability of .having to extend se%#er and/or other urban <br />services into the area to alleviate problems associated with <br />urban type density. <br />5. Addition of a commercial greenhouse operation on property <br />already containing a dwelling %K>uld increase the effective <br />use density of the neighborhood. <br />6. Commercial greenhouses are generally considered suitable <br />quasi-agricultural uses of land located in the rural area <br />where sufficient open space provides ample room for expansion, <br />storage, equipment, and separation from other strictly <br />residential properties. <br />7. The existing residential use of this property is compatible <br />with the residential character of the Arbor Street neighborhood. <br />8. Creation of a new commercial use on this property would <br />not be compatible with the residential character nf the Arbor <br />Street neighborhood and %rould be adverse to the property values <br />of nearby residential lots. <br />9. Access to this property is via Arbor Street, a narrow 18* <br />wide residential access street not suitable for truck traffic <br />or for excessive automobile traffic. <br />PAGE JP OF 3