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I <br />TO: <br />Fron: <br />Date: <br />Planning Commission Chairman Kelley <br />Orono Planning Commission Members <br />City Administrator Bernhardson <br />Michael P. Gaffron, Asst Planning & Zoning Administrator <br />October 13, 1987 <br />Subject: #1211 Gerald Neslund, 1225 Orono Oaks Drive - <br />Conditional Use Permit/Variance - Public Hearing <br />Application - Conditional use permit and variance to construct a driveway <br />through a designated wetland to serve vacant lot. <br />List o£ Exhibits <br />Exhibit A <br />Exhibit B <br />Exhibit C <br />Exhibit D <br />Exhibit £ <br />Application <br />Plat Map <br />Property Owners List <br />Survey Including Topography and Driveway Location Proposal <br />- Staff Skes.i-’’- <br />Pertinent Pacts - <br />1. This property is zoned RR-IB, 2 acre unsewered. <br />2. The plat of Orono Oaks was finalized in 1978 or 1979. At that <br />time the wetland shown within the drainage easement on Exhibit D was <br />designated as a wetland, although it had not appeared on the City's <br />designated wetland maps. That wetland in Lot 7 also extends into the <br />next lot to the west. Since that time the area of the wetland appears <br />to have increased, there being cattails and other wetland vegetation <br />throughout the area shown approximately below the 952 contour on the <br />property as well as on the property to the wezc. <br />3. This application results from the fact that Lot 7 does not have an <br />easement from the property owner to the east for use of the easterly <br />property to create a driveway on high ground. Creation of a driveway <br />that would skirt the drainage -casement would in fact create a longer <br />driveway that would affect a greater square footage of the wetland as <br />it exists today. Therefore, the application was presented with a <br />driveway that cuts directly across the wetland at- the shortest <br />location, which would disrupt the least extensive amount of wetland. <br />4. There is a culvert underneath Orono Oaks Drive approximately 100' <br />west of the cul-de-sac and a drainageway that continues northerly. It <br />would appear that the water elevation of the wetland in Lot 7 would <br />have to be approximately elevation 951.1 or higher in order to drain <br />out of this wetland and to the north.