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9os Chairman Kelley and Planning Commission Members <br />Mayor Peterson and Orono City Council <br />Ron Moorse, City Administrator <br />c^. <br />Dates <br />Subjects <br />Michael P. Gaffron» Asst. Planning & Zoning Administrator <br />September 18r 199X <br />• Preliminary#1764 Austin Evans* 255 Landmark Drive <br />Subdivision - Public Hearing <br />Applications Request to split off a 2 acre building site from Lot 1* Block <br />1* Bayside Landing. <br />Soiling Districts LR-IA* 2 acre minimum. <br />Pertinent facts <br />Lot 1 Lot 2 <br />(House)(New) <br />Lot Areas Dry 2.06 Ac.1.20 Ac <br />Wetland 2.24 Ac.0.95 Ac <br />Total 4.30 Ac.2.15 Ac <br />Lot Widths 250' +520' + <br />List of libitS <br />Exhibit A <br />Exhibit B <br />Exhibit C <br />Exhibit D <br />Exhibit E <br />Exhibit F <br />Application <br />Plat Map <br />Property Owners List <br />Survey <br />Connents from City Engineer <br />Copy of Section 10.55* Subd. 15(A-3) and <br />Flood Fringe/Floodway DefirItions <br />Issues <br />1.Section 10.55* Subd. 15(A-3) allows (for unsewered property) a density <br />credit for "flood fringe" lands equivalent to the amount of dry land* <br />to meet the acreage requirement. Applicant proposes to credit .95 <br />acres of flood fringe with 1.20 acres of dry buildable land to meet <br />the 2 acre requirement for Lot 2. <br />2.Few subdivisions in staff's recollection have made use of this code <br />section since its adoption in 1979. In perhaps two or three cases* <br />existing lots of record hive used the wetland credit for sewered <br />property. <br />Staff has initiated discussions with the applicant's engineer* the <br />City Engineer* and the DNR in attempting to determine whether all of <br />the proposed wetland area to be credited falls within the definition <br />of "flood fringe". Flood Fringe is defined as the area between the <br />floodway elevation (not strictly defined for this wetland as of this <br />k <br />: <br />i <br />J