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ir;-S T A T f O ► <br />.'u'.V lS <br />DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES <br />WATERS, 500 LAFAYETTE ROAD, ST. PAUL, <br />(612) 296-4800 V' 4 ’ ^^ k ' 'phone no <br />May 25, 1993 <br />The Honorable Edward Callahan <br />Mayor, City of Orcno <br />2545 North Shore Dr., Box 72 <br />Crystal Bay, MN 55323 <br />LE <br />liW A <br />^ received <br />’i:. region VI <br />WATERS <br />\rv <br />' ■> <br />C <br />Z\ f <br />4 <br />Dear Mayor Callahan: <br />APPROVAL OF ORONO'S FLEXIBILITY REQUEST AND CONDITIONAL APPROVAL OF <br />SHORELAND MANAGEMENT CONTROLS <br />Thank you for submitting your community’s request for flexibility <br />from the statewide shoreland rules and your city's shoreland <br />management controls which were previously adopted on February <br />24,1992 for the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) review. I <br />will >»ddress the flexibility request first and then discuss DNR’s <br />conditional approval of the shoreland controls. <br />% <br />Your predecessor's letter of March 12, 1992 included city staff <br />memoranda which requested flexibility from statewide standards in <br />the following areas: <br />1. reduction of the structure setbacks from right-of-way <br />lines (primarily from streets and roads) , <br />2. increase in the structure height limit, <br />3. elimination of the setback requirement for lock boxes of <br />limited size, and ^ w j <br />4. relaxation -rl the Impervious coverage requirement based <br />on increased distances from the ordinary high water level <br />of the protected water body. <br />The city’s letters and attached materials adequately describe <br />those situations and justifies its request. I am hereby fully <br />approving the city’s request for flexibrllty. <br />I also am informing you that the city’s land use controls are <br />conditional.ly approved at this time. Your controls will fully <br />comply with Min.**esota Rules, Parts 6120.2500 - 6120.3900 provided <br />that the conditions identified during our review of your city s <br />ordinances and outlined in the attached pages are addressed and <br />incorporated into your land use controls during the next ordinance <br />amendment process. <br />we remain available to asaist the city with the <br />along with the implementation and enforcement off the shoreland <br />coS2?ols AS required by the ordinance, notices of <br />dseifiions for variances, conditional uses, and amendments in <br />sSorfland area/ must be submitted to the Department. These should <br />AN eOoAL CPPOarUNi’V EMPLOYER