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§ 10.41 Subd. 17. Variances For Required Landscaping Areas. The Council may grant a variance allowing a four year installation and planting period to meet the requirements of the landscaping and planting provisions hereof, to any applicant who; A. Submits a detailed landscape plan showing sufficient planting and landscaping in each of the four years in order to provide at the end of the four years a natural screen that will not be less than 50% opaque during the summer months and not less than 25% opaque in winter. B. Submits four year planting and landscaping plan vriiich shall provide that in year of the plan, at least 25% of the necessary landscaping and planting (as determined by the Council as of May 1, 1995) be planned, and completed for each required landscaping area according to the other provisions of this Chapter. The Council may vary this requirement in order to allow a higher percentage of the landscaping and planting in any required landscaping area and credit the applicant for the landscaping and planting which otherwise would be required in other landscaping areas. Subd. 18. Regulation of Structures Within the Lake. Adoption by Reference. The City hereby adopts by reference and makes a part of this Chapter as if fully set forth herein, the following: Chapter U of the LMCD Code as codified on May 27,1988 including sections 2.001 through 2.12 and subsequent amendments. The City expressly reserves the right to deny any variance to the provisions of Chapter II as amended, even though the same variance was granted by the Lake Minnetonka Conservation District. Subd. 19. Reference to Other Ordinances. Section 10.41 is expressly conditioned upon the effectiveness of the Ordinances of the Lake Minnetonka Conservation District pertaining to marina regulations and if all or a portion of such Ordinances are declared invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, no marina shall have a longer dock, more boat slips or more host buoys than what was permitted by the terms of that ordinance on the date it was declared invalid, or than was last approved by the Lake Minnetonka Conservation District, whichever is less. The City expressly reserves the power to be more restrictive in its regulation than the Lake Mmnetonka Conservation District Ordinances if the public health, safety and welfare of the citizens of Orono so requires. Source: Ordinance 132,2nd Series Adopted: January 23, 1995 ORONO CC 342-2 (1-23-95)