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Request for Council Action continued <br />page 2 of 3 <br />March 8, 1995 <br />Sewer Connection - Maeser <br />Additional Information <br />• Exhibit B defines the City ’s stated position on this matter based on code <br />requirements, past City actions, and past actions by the current and previous <br />property owners. <br />• Three of the four options proposed by staff for resolving the issue require City <br />Council approval. <br />• Additional exhibits have been provided as funher background on this issue. <br />. While the cabins are not falling down, staff has been called on by tenants in the <br />past to deal with substandard electrical wiring in the cabins, which was repaired. <br />• Staff has concluded that the nonconforming use sections of the code technically <br />could apply to these cabins, and that their nonconforming use for rental purposes <br />could have been required to cease as early as 1978. <br />• The current owner purchased this property in 1985. <br />Staff Recommendation <br />Given that this 2-acre property .a a 2-acre zone is too small to subdivide, and given the pr»P=^ <br />owner’s understandable reluctance to spend nearly 528,000 to connect the cabins to sewer, staff <br />would recommend that Option 4 of E,xhioit B be conceptually approved via execution of an <br />asreement to be drafted by the applicant's attorney and approved by the City Attorney, <br />containing as a minimum, the following conditions: <br />1. <br />3. <br />The principal residence shall be connected to municipal sewer within 90 days. <br />Tlie two cabins shall be connected to the municipal sewer within 90 days. Such <br />connection shall be a separate connection from the principal residence connection. <br />Connection of the cabins to municipal sewer is considered temporar>', and such <br />connection is allowed fo- a period of___years. At the end of-------years the <br />propertv ’ owner shall remove said connection, remove plumbmg from the cabins, <br />and discontinue rental use of the cabins. The cabins then shaU either be removed <br />from the property or moved to a location on the property that conforms with all <br />provisions of the Orono Zoning Code governing the location and use of accessory <br />storage structures.