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5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. In 1975, the City amended the Zoning Code creating a B-4, Ottice and Professional Zoning District, and rezoned the subject property to B-4. The existing retail use conducted in the "fabric shop" would have been considered non-conforming. There is no record of the owner of the property obtaining a conditional use permit to allow either the single family residential or retail use to continue on the property. Valerie M. Elliot owned the property from 1959 through to the present. The property is now being offered for sale. Applicant has applied for the required conditional use permit to allow the continued residential use of the property. Applicant ’s proposed use of the commercial part of the structure for office professional use is conforming with the existing Zoning District. The location and layout of the residential and commercial uses within the structure are compatible with the older established residential neighborhood on Lydiard Avenue to the south and west and to the commercial area to the north and east along Shady wood Road. There is a duplex dwelling to the immediate south of the property at Lydiard Avenue. The City is in receipt of a letter from a Lydiard Avenue resident approving applicant ’s request to continue the residential use of the property ^d not restoring the entire structure to commercial office use. The City has received no negative oral or written comments from adjacent property owners. Applicant proposes no expansions of the existing building envelope. On June 19, 1995 liie Orono Planning Commission voted to recomrnend unanimous approval of the conditional use permit based on the following findings. a. The single family residential and commercial use has existed on this property for approximately 37 years. Page 2 of 6