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* <br />TO:Chair Peterson and Orono Planning Commission Members <br />FROM Jeanne A. Mabusth, Building & Zoning Administrator <br />DATE:April 9, 1996 <br />SUBJECT: #2125 Richard Clifford, 4760 North Shore Drive - Variances - Public Hearing <br />Zoning District: LR* 1B <br />Lot area <br />Required =* 43,560 s.f. or 1 acre <br />Existing =» 17,030 s.f. or 0.39 acre <br />Variance = 26,530 s.f. or .61% <br />Lot width <br />Required = 140' <br />Existing =* 100' <br />Variance = 40' or 28.5% <br />Application: Applicant has filed a lot area, lot width and a setback variance for land alterations <br />within the required 30' setback from the top of a bluff. The property owner had received lot area and <br />lot width variance approvals from the City in both 1984 and 1986. Since the passage of the City’s <br />new shoreland regulations in April of 1992, a bluff is now defined within the street yard adjacent to <br />the County Road. The following variances are pertinent for this review: <br />I. Section 10.24, Subd. 5(B) - Lot area and lot width variances as noted above. <br />2. Section 10.02 and Ordinance No. 126,2nd Series - Definition of bluff, toe of bluff, top of <br />bluff. <br />3.Section 10.56, Subd. 16(C-2) <br />Required = 30' <br />Structure = 36' <br />No variance required. <br />Land alterations = IT from top of bluff <br />Setback variance for land alteration that encroaches 13' into bluff setback area. <br />4.Section 10.03, Subd. 14(C) <br />Total lot area = 17,030 s.f. <br />Allowed = 2,554.5 s.f. or 15% <br />Proposed = 2,128 s.f. or 12.4% <br />No variance required. <br />I <br />I <br />^4