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• •• <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />DATE: <br />RE: <br />Chair Hawn and Orono Planning Commissioners <br />Ron Moorse, City Administrator <br />Paul Weinberger, Zoning Administrator/Planner <br />August 17,2000 <br />#2571 Jim Ginther and Doug Ault <br />2739 Shadywood Road <br />Variance 0-75' Hardcover-Public Hearing <br />Zoning:LR-IB, One Family Lakeshore Residential District <br />List of Exhibits: <br />A <br />B <br />C <br />D <br />E <br />Hardship Statement <br />Letter, City of Orono (8/9/00) <br />Property Survey <br />Hardcover Calculations <br />Staff Report (4/13/00) <br />Application Background: Ginther and Ault had submitted a Conditional Use Permit and variance <br />application to request continued use of a property as a ‘dock lot’ that has been in use for the mooring <br />of two boats, and an after the fact variance to permit expansion of a parking area constituting <br />additional hardcover within 75' of the OHWL of Lake Minnetonka. <br />On August 11th the City of Orono received a letter from Mr. Thomas M. Crosby, Jr. applicant <br />representative, withdrawing the request for the conditional use permit for a dock use on a lot without <br />a principal residence. They do wish to proceed with the request for the variance for the parking area. <br />The request before the Planning Commission is an after-the-fact variance for the addition of 4' of <br />gravel to the parking area located off Shadvwood Road. The applicant ’s hardship statement is <br />attached as Exhibit A. The City of Orono posted the area along Shadywood Road as a “No Parking ” <br />area in 1999. As a result the property owners expanded the gravel parking area to accommodate <br />parking for two vehicles on the lot. <br />• • <br />The dock lots were created as part of Registered Land Survey No. 415 (2/3/1955) in common with <br />residential properties located within the plat. It was assumed at the time of the plat lots within the <br />neighborhood would have access to dock lots for storing of a boat. Since none of the dock lots were <br />ever legally combined with the residential lots nearby they eventually were sold off separately and <br />are held in private ownership. Several owners of dock lots applied to the City of Orono in 1985 for <br />a conditional use permit to allow legal use of the lots without a principal structure. The Municipal <br />Code has not permitted accessory structures (including docks) to be constructed on lots without a <br />principal building early as 1968. <br />»2S7I Jim Gmthtr and Doug Alt <br />2 739 Shad\M ood Road <br />^ir the Fact Fartance <br />Augtut 21. 2000 <br />pagt-l