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MLNLTES OF THE ORONO PLANNING CO;\LMIiiSION WORK SESSION <br />WEDNESDAY. JANX'ARY 5. 1994 <br />Brown noted he had been involved in trail planning in Carver County, and his experience with <br />landowners had been that they generally have no problem with snowmobiles as lone as they <br />« A amSlav out of mv vard". <br />Schroedcr moved the discussion along to the conditional use list, leaving cross country skiing <br />and snowmobile sales/rental'service/lake operations base for further discussion later. <br />Schroeder noted that "transient boat launching" means a manna would essentially act as a public <br />access ramp. After brief discussion. Planning Commission agreed that transient boat launching <br />was a reasonable conditiorul use as along as parking is addressed, and ultimately might reduce <br />car-trailer parking on the street. <br />Regarding boat clubs. Schroeder defined them as "multiple persons sharing in the use of a single <br />boat", resulting in more hours of usage for a smgle boat as compared to the normal single owner <br />siniation. Rowlelte indicated her family doesn’t boat on weekends due to overcrowding of the <br />lake. Richie Anderson suggested that 6-8 individual members was t> pical per boat in a boat club <br />and that the boat club concept would not increase boat density’ on the lake given that the 8 users <br />have only a single boat, whereas 8 individual boats being used by 8 owners would certainly <br />increase densitv. Ma’ousth questioned the parking needs for boat clubs. Rowlette indicated the <br />concept would-be a problem if for instance, every smgle slip at a marina was devoted to boat <br />club use, which would potentially yield every one of the slipped boats being used all the time. <br />Hilbelink suggested that a boat club is no different than a rental boat simation in terms of <br />amount of usage per boat. Schroeder made the point that under the normal structure, 100 boats <br />could be used individually by 100 families, but under a boat club structure, those 100 boats <br />could be used by 600 families, and the relative amount of usage of those 100 boats would <br />increase substantially. Parking would not necessarily be an issue, because not all 600 families <br />would be there at once. <br />Regarding on-demand launch of customer’s boat stored on site, Gaffron noted that this could be <br />accomplished bv drv stack, or by boats sitting on traders outside. The theory is that the <br />customer would'calfahead, telling the marina to have their boat in the water and ready to go m <br />an hour Rowlette noted this was quite prevalent in Florida and other areas, but net as common <br />vet in Orono She also suggested she would rather see such storage inside buddings rather than <br />outside. Gaffron noted ^hat while Orono has historically only allowed North Shore Drive <br />Marina the use of 20 of its 72 dry stack spaces for boats for lake use, the LMCD licenses all <br />72 as lake use slips. The fallacy is that LMCD doesn’t count boats stored on trailers for lake <br />use in their licensing count. <br />Schroeder suggested that the Planning Commission may at some point address the boat density <br />issue, and needs to be thinking about standards and regulations for parking at mannas.