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LINDQUIST &VENNUM pllp Orono City Council August 8, 1996 Page 3 work on the project and, of course, the requirement that a building permit be obtained. The ordinance does not state that the person cannot ever get a building permit because of the bad behavior. Therefore, I urge you to work through the issue of alleged bad behavior, punish the Albrechts as the ordinance provides with the delay and the double fees, and move on to consider the substance of their request. We understand that the substance of the matter is that if the Albrechts had applied for a building permit, then the zoning code issue would have been raised. There obviously is no problem with a building pe-miil being issued for a deck. The issue is whether a deck may be addea lO this property at this location under Orono ordinances. A second biack mark in some of your minds against the Albrechts' application is the history of the house at 1810 Shadywood Road. Ironically, 1810 Shadywood Road was the previously existing house on a 100-foot wide parcel. In 1985, the Orono City Council allowed this parcel to be subdivided and a new house was constructed to the northerly of the Albrechts' house. Some of you view that decision as being a mistake. I believe the mistake is that the two small lots were created where there had been one large lot which caused the situation to come into being that the hardcover limitation of 25% would likely be exceeded. That is what turned out happened. There was further City involvement with this property in 1991, when it came to light that what the City viewed as a hardcover compromise by using "pavers* on the EDOl 88S375 I .-Vi