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Application Date: 8/23/00 Deadline: 12/21/00 REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION DATE: October 18,2000 ITEM NO. Department Approval: Name Paul Weinberger Title Zoning Administrator Administrator Reviewed:Agenda Section: Zoning Item Description:#2611 Marlys McCarty 225 Tonka Avenue Easement Vacation Zoning District:RR-IB One Family Rural Residential District (2 acre) Lbt of Exhibits:OCT 2 3 2000 A B C D E F Application Description of Request Property Survey Utility Map Plat Map Resolution 1619 (Vacating a portion of Brook Street) CITY or Application Summary; The applicant has requested vacation of a utility easement located thru the center of the property. A 20' X 100' portion of Brook Street on which the detached garage is currently located was vacated by the City of Orono in 1984 per Resolution No. 1619 (attached). A condition ol the vacation was that the property owner grant to the City a Utilities Easement over the northerly 15' of the vacated Brook Street, for fiture use by the City. It is this easement the current property owner has requested to vacate. The property ow .er has recently acquired the property north of the vacated Brook Street. The property owner has stated the current location of the easement is an obstacle and deterrent in plans to improve the property ’. The applicant would like to construct an attached garage to the existing house. In exchange for the vacation of the 15' easement the property owner would provide an easement over the south 15' of the property. The new easement would make it possible to provide sewer service to the west. The lot to the north and west has access around the applicant's property via the platted right-of-way beginning at the north end of Tonka Avenue. According to the sewer maps a stub was made available about 100 ’ north of Tonka Avenue to provide service to the property north and west of the applicant ’s lot. A 25* section of Brook Street west of the Tonka Avenue/Brook Street intersection was not vacated in 1984 to provide access to the north lot. This lot eventually went tax forfeit before the current property owner acquired the lot and combined it with the 225 Tonka Avenue lot. To vacate an easement a finding must be made that no public purpose exists for the easement. The relocation of the utility and access easement would still allow the property to the west access and sewer connection. 1 i