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To: <br />From: <br />Date: <br />Planning Commission <br />Michael P. Gaffron, Asst. Planning & Zoning Administrator <br />June 18, 1997 <br />Subject: Hardcover Policy Analysis <br />^e attached document is intended to be a comprehensive look at how Orono has administered its <br />hardcover ordinances since their initial adoption in 1975. <br />The first 2 pages comprise all the nardcover ordinance language currently in effect. The next 24 <br />pages attempt to define how the ordinances have been interpreted through the years, the rationale <br />for those interpretations, and possible alternative methods to deal with the underlying issue qualitv <br />and quantity of stormwater runoff. ’ ^ ^ <br />I should warn you that some of the interpretations or policies noted will fall into a 'proposed policy' <br />category, i.e. what I think the policy should be, rather than how it may actually be administered or <br />understood by others. For instance, the discussion of Zone-to-Zone credit transfer is a logical (I <br />think) extension of the ordinance, but I don't think we have necessarily formalized the use of such <br />transfers. <br />To a great extent, staff would like to have more flexibility in dealing with hardcover on a staff level, <br />m order to reduce the number of formal variance requests. One way to do so is to relax the standards. <br />pother option is to allow staff to deal with variances up to a set percentage before a formal variance <br />is required. <br />Let me know if you have questions or would like to review all this at a future meeting.