05-11-1999 Public Hearing - Woodhill CC

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I I I L L #2484 - Woodhill CC Mays, 1999 Page 5 What Woodhill is implicitly not requesting. Staff assumes the following activities, uses or improvements, by omission, are implicitly not being requested: 1. Use of the Woodhill Avenue access for Club maintenance vehicles other than tractors. 2. Use of the Woodhill Avenue access by Club employees except in relation to tractor servicing. 3. (There may be additional activities, uses or improvements which should be noted here) Staff Review and Summary of Issues A. Pertinent Sections of City Code and Comprehensive Plan CUP for Country Club Use. Woodhill Country Club is in Orono's RR-IB Single Family Rural Residential zoning district, the standards for which appear in Zoning Code Section 10.28. Section 10.28 references the R-IA district standards for conditional uses. Section 10.20 Subd. 3. The pertinent subsection which addresses country clubs as a conditional use, reads as follows: "Subd 3. Conditional Uses. Within any R-IA One Family Residential District, no structure or land shall be usedfor the following uses except by conditional use permit: ...C. Clubs, Camps, etc. Golf courses, country clubs, tennis clubs, public swimming pools serving more than one family, scout camps, YMCA camps, YJVCA camps, church camps, or private non-profit parks, playgrounds and other similar uses. The principal structure for any of the above listed uses shall be 100' or more from any abutting lot in an "R" district, and acces.sory structures shall be a minimum offifty feet from any lot line." This is identical to the language in effect at the time the 1968 CUP was applied for and issued. The City has historically required a new CUP for any new physical improvements (new buildings, extensive grading work, etc.) to an existing conditional use. The City has also required such a review when a new use or activity is proposed by an existing conditional use, and such review is especially appropriate in the context of the CUP process, when such use will have potential negative impacts on the surrounding neighborhood. Zoning Code Section 10.09, Subd.l, states in part that "...Conditional uses include those uses generally not suitable in a particular zoning district, but which may under some circumstances be suitable. When such circumstances exist, a conditional use permit may be granted. Conditions may be applied to issuance of the permit and a periodic review of the permit may be required...". The City Council is empowered to grant or deny conditional use pemiits and to impose reasonable conditions on them.