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Date: March 11, 2024 Item: 11 <br />Presenter: Laura Oakden, Community Development Director <br />Section: Consent Agenda <br /> <br />Title: City Code Update - Adopt Ordinances 298-301 <br /> <br /> <br />1.Purpose: <br />The city of Orono is proposing ordinance updates consisting of housekeeping edits, language <br />updates, and clarification of existing city code involving multiple chapters. <br />2.Background: <br />Recodification is a process that includes a thorough and full legal review of the city’s municipal <br />code to ensure that all provisions are comprehensive, lawful, and enforceable. It is recommended <br />that a legal review of the municipal code be conducted every 10-15 years to address the needs of <br />the city's stakeholders. The city code was last republished in 2003. In 2022, the city initiated the <br />current recodification project of the city code. To begin this process, Municode (the city’s code <br />publication vendor) completed an initial chapter-by-chapter review. Orono staff took the results of <br />Municode’s review and over the past 18 months conducted our own chapter-by-chapter review of <br />the code to include for updates. The Staff reviews were followed by review by the City Attorney. <br />3.Analysis: <br />Proposed Updates for review: <br /> <br />City Code Section Proposed Change <br />Chapter 58 - Environmental: <br />58-1 Property Maintenance - updating the maximum grass height to match State Statute <br />language <br />58-56 Updating language for consistency <br />58-63 Housekeeping/correction of typos <br />58-71 Housekeeping/correction of typos <br />Chapter 78 - Zoning Regulations: <br />78-5 Remove redundant language <br />78-230 through 420 Correction of typos within the side setback exceptions <br />78-1405 Add “Fence monument” definition and clarification <br />78- 1431 through <br />1440 <br />Removal of the covenant requirement for Oversized Buildings and reorganizing the <br />sections <br />78-1511 Clarifying off-street parking language <br />Chapter 86 - Building Regulations: <br />86-37 Adding a clarifying statement <br />86-70 Rewording of the permit expiration language <br />Chapter 90 - Manufactured Homes: <br />Entire chapter Deletion of chapter. This language is located in other areas of the City Code including <br />Parking and Public Protection Chapters. The section is redundant. <br />4.Planning Commission Vote and Comment: <br />AGENDA ITEM <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />80