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Planning Commissioners/August 14, 1997/p.3 <br />Wc realize that this proposal will have minimal impact on most of our neighbors. None of <br />the houses will be seen by existing L>Tnan Avenue property owners because we have <br />carefully placed the building pads on the lots for the privacy of everyone However, the <br />road and cul-de-sac will have an impact on Margret and Brano Stankovsky ’s lot. Their <br />property is surrounded on two sides by our property and they are on a substandard lot of <br />approximately one acre The new road and cul-de-sac will be on their eastern lot line, on <br />a previously vacated street We have tried to maximize their privacy from the house that <br />will be built on Lot 1 by voluntarily increasing the required setback from their back <br />property line from 30 feet to 50 feet, and the area in between, except for their drainfield, is <br />wooded. <br />We spent a considerable amount of time try ing to treat lots 1 and 2 as back lots so that a <br />shared driveway could be used at the Stankovsky ’s property line instead of the road and <br />cul-de-sac. It would have had less visual impact than the road. But we could not meet the <br />set-back or lot size requirements and we were told that the Commission has never granted <br />a variance for area requirement As with many sites in Orono, septic systems control most <br />of what can be done to a given piece of land .. and that w as certainly true in our case. In <br />addition, the shared driveway would not have given you the cul-de-sac you requested. <br />Our intentions, in the design of the subdivision, were to keep the feel of the neighborhood. <br />All of us chose to live on Lyman because we like what it is—quiet, wooded, home to <br />wildlife and wildflowers. We’ll miss it. <br />Please call or stop by over the weekend if you would like to eyeball our proposal in person <br />or to talk to us about it. We welcome your thoughts. <br />Sincerely, <br />0 <br />Tracy Whitehead <br />IsJuJxh&d <br />P.S. Yesterday afternoon when / went to City Hail to deliver this letter, Mike pointed <br />out a discrepancy involving our septic .w stem layouts that frankly was a surprise to me. <br />The septic systems on each lot were niH In he same area as on the 1991 Preliminary <br />Plat, but each had been slightly reci..ft^ u^ed or repositioned to meet a change in lot <br />lines. Mike was concerned that they might not work with the changes and therrfore <br />wrote the staff report to reflect that Last evening, / talked at length with our septic <br />system engineer who believes that it can be easily resolved. My surveying company is <br />now in the process of verifying his suggestions. If it is resolved, / will bring you a copy <br />over the weekend so you will have a chance to study it before the meeting. I sincerely <br />apologize to all of you for this last minute problem. It was certainly unintentional.