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Tos Mayor Peterson 6 Orono Council Members <br />City Administrator Bernhardson <br />Proas Michael P. Gaffron, Asst Planning & Zoning Administrator <br />Date: April 17, 1991 <br />Subject: #1626 Tim and Beth Traff, 2683 North Shore Drive - <br />Variance <br />Soniag District - LR-IA, Single family lakeshore residential, 2 <br />acre, sewered <br />Application - Request for side setback, lot area and lot width <br />variances to construct new residence. <br />List of Bshibits <br />Exhibit A - Planning Commission Action Notice of 3/'21/91 <br />Exhibit B - Planning Commission Minutes of 3/18-20/91 <br />Exhibit C - Memo & Exhibits of 3/8/91 <br />Oiscnssion - <br />Please review the memo and exhibits of March 8, 1991. <br />Briefly, applicants' existing residence is on a 1 acre sewered <br />lot in the 2 acre zone. The existing house is 2* from the lot <br />line. Applicants propose to remove the existing house and <br />construct a new residence on the property. They request lot <br />width and lot area variances, and an east side setback variance <br />of 5.5* (revised from 7’) to allow the new residence to be 24.5' <br />from the lot line. <br />The neighboring property owners to the east, who are most <br />affected by the setback variance request, are not opposed to the <br />variances. The Mitchells, property owners to the immediate west, <br />have expressed concern that the new home will be extremely close <br />to their property and perhaps encroach on their privacy to a <br />degree, although the proposed construction meets setback and <br />average lakeshore setback requirements on the Mitchell side of <br />the property. <br />Planning COBad.ssion ReccanMndation *- <br />Planning Commission reviewed this request at their March <br />18/20th meeting, and on a vote of 3 to 1, recommended denial of <br />the side setback variance based on no hardship being shown since <br />new construction could be redesigned to not need this variance. <br />The motion included a recommendation for approval of the lot <br />area/lot width variances. <br />Planning Commission clearly felt that applicants should be <br />allowed to construct a new residence on the property, but the <br />majority felt that the standard building envelope left sufficient <br />width at the average lakeshore setback line (approximately 43') <br />that a residence could be designed and constructed without the <br />need for setback variances.