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To:Chair Lindquist and Orono Planning Commission Members <br />Ron Moorse, City Administrator <br />From:Michael P. Gaffron, Assistant Planning & Zoning Administrator <br />Date:May 16, 1997 <br />Subject:#2165 City of Orono, "4730" Tonkaview Lane - Metes & Bounds Class <br />I Subdivision - Public Hearing <br />Zoning District: LR-IB, Single Family Lakeshore Residential, 1 Acre, Sewered <br />Application: Subdivision to separate a half-acre tax parcel from the 9.2 acre tax forfeit Saga <br />Hill Park parcel. The half-acre parcel is intended for future acquisition by <br />adjacent property owners, as previously indicated by the City Council. The City <br />Council has requested that this subdivision be completed so that the City can <br />release the half-acre parcel to the County separately from the remaining park <br />parcel. <br />Lut of Exhibits <br />A - Application <br />B - Plat Map <br />C - Property Owners List <br />D - Survey <br />E - Area Site Map, Including Park Properties <br />F - Council Minutes 11/28/94 <br />G - Moorse Letter 12/28/94 and Resolution #3511 <br />Discussion <br />The City is in the process of acquiring a 9.2 acre tax forfeit parcel formerly owned by Mr. and <br />Mrs. Valek of 4720 Tonkaview Lane. When this parcel went tax forfeit, due to a number of <br />circumstances surrounding the nature of the forfeiture and the historic use by the Valeks for <br />yard and drainage purposes of a small portion of the total parcel. City Council agreed in <br />principle to allow for the eventual re-acquisition of a one-half acre tract by the Valeks. <br />The current subdivision would separate for tax purposes such a half-acre parcel, which would <br />for the time being remain under City control but which could be released to the County for <br />sale to adjacent owners at the time the City chooses to do so. Such transfer would likely occur <br />in conjunction with a future lot line rearrangement suggested by the Valeks involving their <br />homestead parcel and properties to the immediate west along Tonkaview Lane. Such <br />subdivision would ultimately result in one additional building site on Tonkaview Lane. <br />The currently proposed metes and bounds division does not affect access to the Saga Hill Park <br />area, and appears to follow the intent of the City Council as noted in Exhibits F and G..