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�o�o C ITY OF ORONO IZESOLUTION OF THE CIT'Y COUNCIL ��'l,� �,G~ No. 6477 KESH�� WHEREAS, the Applicant was not able to commence construction of the addition before December 31, 2010, and was granted an extension of the approvals until December 31, 2011 by Resolution No. 5992; and WHEREAS, the approvals and extensions granted by the above referenced Resolutions have expired; and WHEREAS, in 2013 the Applicant made a request for renewal of the expired approvals including a minor revision to the originally approved plans to allow the 25,620 s.f. building addition to be 25 feet in height where the original approval was for 20 feet in height; and WHEREAS, on September 9, 2013 the City Council renewed approval of a conditional use permit per Municipal Zoning Code Section 78-823 and industrial site plan approval per Section 78-142 to permit a 25,620 s.f. one-story addition to the principal structure up to 25 feet in height, and revisions to the approved parking layout; and WHEREAS, the Applicant was not able to commence construction of the addition before September 9, 2014 and the approvals granted via Resolution No. 6320 have expired; and WHEREAS, on October 21, 2014 the Appficant made a request for renewal of the expired approvals including a minor revision to the approved plans to construct the addition with a height of 20 feet, rather than 25 as previously approved via Resolution No. 3620; and allow the building addition footprint to extend 20 feet to the south increasing the addition footprint to 29,136 s.f.; and WHEREAS, pursuant to mailed and published public notice, the Orono Planning Commission held a public hearing on the renewal and revision request on November 17, 2014, at which time all persons wishing to comment on the proposal were allowed to comment; and WHEREAS, on November 17, 2014, the Orono Planning Commission voted 7-0 to recommend approval of the renewal with height and footprint revision; and WHEREAS, the City Council has considered the application by the Applicant for renewal with minor revisions of the approvals granted under Resolution No. 5470 for development of the Property, and makes the following findings: 1. The existing main building on the property is approximately 176,000 s.f. in area, and the proposed addition to it will add 29,136 s.f. 2. The location of the addition is far removed from view from any of the surrounding public roadways and will have virtually no visual impacts as viewed from the adjoining industrial properties. All required yard setbacks will be met. 3. This addition expands the main building footprint to approximately 205,136 s.f., or 20.7% of this 990,000 s.f. site. With the additional 7,250 s.f. of existing accessory buildings on the site, structural coverage is significantly below the 45% coverage allowed for the site. Page 2 of 4