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TO: FROM: DATE: Chair Peterson and Orono Planning Commission Ron Moorse, City Adminismior Jeanne A. Mabusth, Building & Zoning Administrator March 11,1996 /. SUBJECT: #2120 Loren Brueggemann. 372 Westlake Street - Vacation - Public Hearing Zoning District: LR-IA Pertinent Ordinance Section 10.12 - Vacation of alley. Applicant has petitioned for the vacation of the 10' alley platted and dedicated to the public in 1912. List of Exhibits A - Application B - Plat Map C - Property Owners List D - Legal Description of Vacation E - Hillside Park Plat F - Detail Hillside Park Plat G - Dedication 1 anguage Hillside Park Plat H - Current Sar\ ey Review of Request Applicant has filed a petition to vacate the 10 ’ alley originally dedicated in the plat. Hillside Park, approved by the Orono Town Board in 1912. The plat dedicated a canal to the immediate south of the alley ajid may have provided a water link to Westlake Street trom Stubbs Bay during the period of the drcuuhts in the early 1900s. It is not certain w hether there is navigable shoreline along the south shore of the alley. The lot lire rearrangement subdivision creating two lots was officially denied by tlte Council at the March 11, 1996 meeting. It is applicant's plan to now proceed with the demolition of the e.xisting residence structures and to construct one single family residence. The south shoreline ot the property is bounded b> the 10 ’ alley and limits legal or direct access to the lake to the east shoreline. Review Exhibit H, the majority of the platted 10' alley is now located beneath the 929.4 elevation. Note there is no direct land corridor linking platted W'estlake Street with the 10'. Access to the public alley could only be achieved via the private propeny. Members may remember the same situation with Forest Blvd. platted along the east shoreline of Forest Lake. The majority of the