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k: 1“ 'X lar Zoning File #1701 November 14, 1991 Page 2 Description of Request Mrs. Sprague has entered into a Purchase Agreement with the fee owner of the property. Her homestead is to the immediate west of the subject property (refer to staff sketch. Exhibit K). Review Exhibit B, in her addendum she advises that her attorney will be prepared to legally combine the parcels upon completion of the sale. She proposes an accessory use of the structure "primarily for storage of hobby/craft items". As already noted above, sometime in 1983-84 the structure was completely gutted. The floor plan, submitted with the application, proposes the partitioning off of the structure into four independent rooms (Exhibit P). The plan suggests an independent dwelling unit rather than a storage structure use originally described to staff that was not to be heated nor served by sewer or water. An accessory structure or use would require the legal combination of the property in order to achieve credit of the principal structure on Mrs. Sprague's homestead property. Does the applicant propose a guest house use? If so, a conditional use application must be filed for a guest house use. Per applicant's addendum, the structure shall be cosmetically repaired with new shingles, new ^axnt and flower boxes. No additions or other improvements are proposed on the property. If residential use is to be restored on this property, whether it is a primary or accessory residential use, a variance to the non-conforming use sections of the code would be required. Mrs. Sprague not only seeks variance approval but als^ asks the City to consider the rezonlng of both properties to residential. In discussions with the immediate neighbor to the east. Parcel D on the staff sketch Exhibit K, they also advised an interest in restoration of residential zoning for their property. History of the Sonliig of These Properties Prior to 1957 the property was unzoned. In 1957 Ordinance No. 9, Exhibit B, created a commercial district and also allowed any use wnich would have been permitted in a residential district. In 1967 the property was rezoned to B-2, Lakeshore Commercial and all existing residential uses within that zone became non-conforming. As already noted above, there has never been a legally approved commercial use of the property as the City has never issued a soning Certificate of Occupancy for the commercial uses of the property documented from 1983 thru 1990. Review the series of owners reported by the current fee owner in her letter of August 16, 1991 to the Orono staff. Exhibit J. In 1985 the