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Background <br />On June 26, 2000 the City of Orono adopted Resolution No. 4485 approving the variai.:es and <br />conditional use permit for the Hennepin County Highway Maintenance facility located at 3880 <br />Shoreline Drive. <br />The salt and sand storage building required variances to permit the building to exceed the maximum <br />allowed size for an oversized accessory building on a property of 6.65 acres. The Municipal Code <br />only permits a 2,400 square foot oversized accessory building on the proper y, and an aggregate of <br />4,800 square feet for all accessory buildings. The proposed building is 60 feet X -?01 . • nl-.'sa 10' <br />overhang for an extended roof for each storage bay. <br />Initially, the City of Orono was concerned that the construction of such a facility on the property may <br />expand the operation of the site. County staff has indicated the proposed building would actually <br />have less impact on the surrounding residential properties bccau.se the number of salt and sand <br />deliveries to the site would be reduced by approximately 60 trips annually. During a significant <br />snow event, night deliveries of dry salt and sand mix are required because of the limited indoor <br />storage currently provided. With the enclosed building they can stockpile the mix aiid accept <br />deliveries during the daytime hours. <br />Existing use of Property: <br />The property has been u.scd as a County Highway maintenance facility since at least 1962, the time <br />the original building was constructed. In 19^2 the zoning of the property was for commercial <br />purposes, since that time the property was rezoned to LR-IC. Because the use of the property has <br />not changed since the rezoning, the facility has been allowed to exist as a legal non-conforming use. <br />The facility is used primarily for winter road maintenance, with a coverage area for this facility <br />primarily being County Road 15 between Mound and Highway 12 and County Road 19 from Orono <br />to Excelsior. <br />Other Public Uses of the Property <br />T he DNR has located a wash rack for cleaning mussels offbeats, trailers and other watercraft. The <br />wash rack is located north of the parking area and is used voluntarily by boat owners before boats are <br />placed into Lake Minnetonka. <br />T he LMCD iias used the property for storage of 4 milfoil harvesters. 1 he harvesters are currently <br />stored in a parking area where the salt/sand storage facility is proposed. Hennepin County will <br />continue to allow the LMCD to store the milfoil harvesters. <br />The large parking area between the existing building and the south property line has been used as <br />overflow parking for vehicles and boat trailers when the public landings arc full. The overflow <br />parking would remain as a continued use. Overflow parking only occurs in the spring/summer/fall <br />mainly on weekends not to interfere with the winter road maintenance facility operation. <br /><>02-2776 Hennepin County <br />3880 Shoreline Drive <br />Page 2 of 3