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in TO; FROM; DATE: Mayor Herbert Ross, Village of Orono D, J. Russell, Chninnan, Orono Planning Cocmlssion September 16, 1969 SUBJECT: Variances for Cnragos on Separate Lots A garage is rarely as well built ind well maintained as a house, since it is basically Just a storage structure rather than a hone in which people tako pride. For this reason a garage fronting on a resident^.tl street Is very likely to dopreciute the vclue of not only the adjoining properties, but the yhole neighborhood. In writing Orono’s present zoning ordlj.!^jce, adopted in 1967, tho Planning Cemmission and the Council mads very careful studies of the nodcTU zoning codes of many other municipalities in Minnesota and elsewhere, and also sou^lit the advice of Midwest Planning and Research, Inc., a well*'regarded professional planaing firm. Without exception, tho ordinaiicos studied ruled out garagos on separate lots in residential areas. Section 31.S10 of Orono's ordinance reads; Time of Construction. No accjssory ouilding or structure sHi^mfe constructed on any lot prior to the time of construction of tho princinel building to wliich it is accessory,. This clause was adopted werd for word from Section 4.5(1) of the proposed roning ordinance^ developed for Orono in Maich, 1965 by Midwest Planning, as were Sections on neecssory building floor are.i, 31.310 prohibitiag location nearer to the street than th.e main building and 31 3S0 glvlnr similar pretaotien to properly owners adjacent to both ends of through lots by requiring a conditional use permit for accessory tuildings ca such lotS' Typical of similar ordinances on other Minnesota nmnicipnllties are Section 5,2.3 of the Duluth code, which, provides in rosldrntial zones for ’*a private garage custoraarily inuideut to the above uso.s, but not; involving the couc'uct of a business, providing any such accessory building shall be erected #.r the same time or after the construction of the principal building", end Section 12.02 1 of Golden Valley’.s zoning code which defin.-? an "tccessoiT building" as a subordlnato building which is locn:od on tho lot of the main building aJid as "o subordinsto building vdiich Is located on the iot of the main buildir.j» and the use of which is clep.rly incidental to.. ^ _i na.TC a* r i n#*<s a '*irn r •the use of the main building". Sectlcn 12,02*15 deTines a "garage private as "a garage with a capacity of r.oc more than four power- driven vehicles for storajiC only, lad which is erected ar. an acoossoiy to the building..,..”.