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TO: <br />FROM: <br />DATE: <br />Planning Commission Members <br />Ron Moorse, City Administrator <br />Michael P. Gaffron, Asst. Planning Zoning Administrator <br />October 15, 1993 <br />SUBJECT: #1877 Tandem Propenies/Peter Andrea Company - 3025 Watertown Road and <br />2645 Watenown Road - Sketch Plan Review for Proposed Subdivision <br />List of Exhibits <br />A - Application <br />B - Location Map <br />C - Plat Map <br />D - Blue Line Sketch <br />E - ll"xl7" Sketches <br />F - PRD Code Section for Discussion <br />G - Orono Wetlands Map <br />Note: Because this 130 acre preliminary sketch plan proposal is perhaps the largest <br />single development proposal in Orono in many years, staff determined that the Park <br />Commission and Council should also provide sketch plan stage input. Therefore, this item <br />is also planned to be scheduled on the Council’s October 25th agenda for review, and was <br />reviewed by Park Commission on October 4th. <br />Discussion <br />Tandem Properties and Peter Andrea Company, represented by Dick Putnam, request <br />Planning Commission’s preliminar}' thoughts on development ot the Gordon Coffin property <br />(southwest quadrant of Watertown Road and Old Crystal Bay Road) and the Dickey property <br />(south of Watertown Road between Willow and Old Crystal Bay Road). The total area of these <br />two properties is approximately 130 acres. The preliminary sketch plan shows twenty-five lots <br />on the 62 acre Coffin properly and twenty-six lots on the 68 acre Dickey property. <br />Both jroperties abut Old Crvstal Bay Road. The Dickey property abuts the DNR woods <br />adjacent to the Luce Line. The Coffin property abuts the Luce Line for a distance of <br />approximately 1,500’. <br />The Dickev property additionally is unique in that it contains an area of great religious <br />and cultural significance to the Native Ameiicaii population, a burial site of the "Ancient Ones" <br />which IS used ceremonially anu for various rites. The subdivider had suggested that the old bam <br />on the historic site be renovated into an interpretive center, however Park Commission felt that <br />the bam may be uh) far gone but the older house to the immediate west might be suitable.