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22191.2 4TotMayor Peterson & Orono Council Members <br />City Administrator Bernhardson <br />Michael P. Gaffron, Asst Planning 6 Zonin^^tfMClL _^ <br />February 21, 1991 2 ^^991 <br />Subjects Hardcover Policy Qf QHQ|^| <br />List of Bzhibits <br />rroMt <br />Dates <br />Exhibit A - Current Hardcover Handout <br />Exhibit B - 12/4/90 Staff Memo - Planning Commission <br />Consideration of Revisions to Hardcover Standards <br />At your February 11th meetingr Council directed staff to <br />effect a policy change to require that the water surface of a <br />pool be considered as hardcover. Also, Council directed that in <br />future applications, underlined landscape beds shall not be <br />reported as existing hardcover for "trade-off purposes, and <br />applicants shall be advised that such hardcover must be removed. <br />These changes could be incorporated in a revision of the <br />definition of hardcover. The definition of hardcover in Section <br />10.02.29 is I '"Hardcover” - any structure, blacktop or other <br />materials which interfere to any degree with the direct <br />absorption of rainfall into the ground'. The Planning Commission <br />is currently considering revisions to this definition (see <br />Exhibit B). <br />Exhibit A is the hardcover calculation handout which has <br />been in effect for approximately the last 5 years. The only <br />revision to that handout to date has been to Include fabric under <br />landscape rock as hardcover. Pool water surfaces will now be <br />added to that list of items that are hardcover. <br />Etmctiirel vs. Eon-structaral Hardcover and Hardcover Trade-offs - <br />The soning code hardcover definition does not differentiate <br />between structural and non-structural hardcover. Trade-offs of <br />patios or plastic lined rock beds in exchange for structure in <br />the 0-75* sons have been occuring since the ordinance was adopted <br />in 1975. Within the first year after adoption, the Council <br />granted new structure in the 0-75* over an existing patio (1392 <br />Baldur Park Road, Ted Boer), and denied an after-the-fact <br />variance for a concrete patio and plastic lined crushed rock <br />sidewalk in the 0-75* which was done without a permit (3587 North <br />Shore Drive). In 1976, on Bayside Road, the Counciallowed an <br />open, "non-hardcover* deck to be constructed in ihe 0-75* in <br />exchange for removal of a somewhat smaller area of concrete patio <br />in the 0-75*. <br />tT'-.