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r TO:Chair Peterson and Orono Planning Commission Ron Moorse, City Administrator /. FROM!Jeanne A. Mabusth, Building & Zoning Administrator DATE: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 1 O' 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 Language Hillside Park Plat H - Current Survey 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 and may have provided a water link to Westlake Street fi'om Stubbs Bay during the period of the droughts in the early 1900s. It is not certain whether there is navigable shoreline along the south shore of the alley. The lot line rearrangement subdivision creating two lots was officially denied by the Council at the March 11, 19"'6 meeting. It is applicant’s plan to now proceed with the demolition of the existing residence structures and to construct one single family residence. The south shoreline of the property is bounded by 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 Westlake Street with the 10’. Access to the public alley could only be achieved via the private property. Members may remember the s^e situation with Forest Blvd. platted along the east shoreline of Forest Lake. The majority of the ••"Mr**- - '• 1 tV» r* T-—1—■■ -n —1 —i - rrw -. r. .. --'r-:-..-:-!--