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MINUTES OF THE <br />ORONO PLANNING COMMISSION <br />January 17, 2023 <br />6:00 o'clock p.m. <br />lot? And then do you have concerns about any layout regarding Hennepin County and the engineers <br />comments for access? You are asked to discuss and provide feedback to the applicant. <br />Brett Larsen, 2040 Carmine Street and Mark Gronberg, Gronberg and Associates, Long Lake, appeared as <br />the applicants. <br />Mr. Larsen said he and his wife are building a home on the southern portion. On the northern portion <br />we've looked at a few different things. We've talked about a few different options, including putting <br />commercial on the northernmost part, and residential on the southernmost part. It is all buildable; there <br />are no wetland issues. After working through the options with Mark, it gets kind of tight when you're <br />trying to create an easement or a roadway between the two. So the plan would be to have one single <br />family home, one lot, one single family home on that lot. <br />Mr. Gronberg said they looked at putting a shared cul-de-sac with both properties but it takes up too much <br />area and the setbacks are onerous. We're certainly in favor of a shared access between the two properties <br />so that there's only one there. And I think like Bob said, right in, right out. It makes a lot of sense on a <br />busy road like that. A couple other things, looking at your 2030 land use plan, it shows that it's two to <br />three units per acre. So we're certainly in favor of doing a rezoning here to get that maybe before the <br />2030. But another thing I wanted to bring up is back a couple years ago we had a neck going up to a 25 <br />foot strip that went up to the north, just to make the dry land on that southerly lot over an acre. And then <br />the northerly lot was still 100 feet wide. It seems stupid to have a 25 -foot strip up there that they could <br />never use, but it did technically meet the requirements. <br />McCutcheon said he appreciated that the applicants are willing to work with the landowner to the west <br />because it really looks like it's going to be a compromise between both parcels. <br />Libby asked if they have pursued looking at an egress from Kelly Ave. <br />Mr. Gronberg said it sounds like a good idea but who knows if those owners would be willing to give up <br />access there. And then Brett would then have to give up access across his property to the right property of <br />the West. <br />Mr. Larsen said they work through the City with building permits, and wanted to be can -do. We didn't ask <br />for a variance. We tried to do everything outside of the setback. We had to scrap the existing house, fill in <br />the foundation and do a new foundation in order to accomplish all that. We did have the same approach <br />here. I've talked to Scott Edwards. We've talked about sharing that curb cut, if that makes this easier to do. <br />Our strong preference would be to work with Mr. Edwards to find a way that we can access 15. <br />And we have spoken with the LMCD, and they are telling us that a dock is doable. <br />Erickson said as a point of information, reviewing the previous comments from Hennepin County a <br />couple of years ago, the question was raised about the right-of-way for County 15. Hennepin County <br />might want possibly another 12 feet of right-of-way, which then in discussing that, they also pointed out <br />that they didn't want to see any retaining walls are along that stretch of 15 for sightline visibility. <br />Page 11 of 13 <br />