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r <br />! <br />REOtTST FOR COl'NCIL ACTION <br />DATE: November 8. 1994 <br />ITEM NO.:5" <br />Oepartmeiit Approval: <br />Nanc Miduci P Goffron <br />Title Asst. Planning 8c Zoning Administrator <br />Administrator Reviei%ed:Agenda Scetioii: <br />Zoning <br />Item DcKri^km: #1969 City^ Orono. 1355 Brown Road South - Variance - Resolution <br />Zoning District: RR IB Single Family Rural Residential. 2 acre. <br />AppUcation: Request for front yard setback variance for construction of a parking lot to ser\e <br />the Crysul Bay Post Office. <br />List of Exhibits <br />A - Resolution <br />B - Notice of Planning Commission Recommendation 10/18/94 <br />C • Memo and Exhibits of 10/12/94 <br />Discussion <br />Pkase review the memo and exhibits of October 12th Briefly, the Public Works Depwment <br />is planning to construct a parking lot on the south side of the Crysul Bay Posi Office to <br />eliminate parking on the shoulder. <br />Because this is a 2-acre single family zone, a parking lot would normally have to be 50* from <br />the street lot line. However, construction of such a lot for the Crysul Bay Post Office would <br />encroach into the existing Crystal Bay park area, and would still require a driveway in the <br />defined front yard. <br />Planning Commission Recommendation <br />Plamung Commission reviewed this at their October 17ih meeting and voted /-O for <br />noting the existing screening adjacent to the neighboring residence, and noting that it wou <br />inappropriate to force the parking lot to the rear which would have a severe negative impact on <br />the Crvsul Bav plav area. The hardship is the existing site layout and use pattern, as well as <br />the layout of the ex'istmg post office with its only public access door adjacent to Brown Koaa. <br />Staff Recommendation <br />Suff recommends approval per the Planning Commission recommendation. A resolution for <br />adoption is atuched. <br />'TM-LS V-o