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6. The City Council finds that the conditions existing on <br />this property are peculiar to it and do not apply generally <br />to other property in this zoning district; that granting the <br />variances would not adversely affect traffic conditions, <br />light, air nor pose a fire hazard or other danger to <br />neighboring property; would not merely serve as a <br />convenience to the applicants, but are necessary to <br />alleviate a demonstrable hardship or difficulty; are <br />necessary to preserve a substantial property right of the <br />applicants; and would be in keeping with the spirit and <br />intent of the Zoning Code and Comprehensive Plan of the <br />City. <br />CONCLOSIOM, ORDER AND CONDITIONS <br />B&sed upon one or more of the findings noted above, the <br />Orono City Council hereby grants variances to Municipal Zoning <br />Code Section 10.22, Subdivisions 1 and 2 and Section 10.55, <br />Subdivision 8 to permit the construction of a room addition <br />located entirely within the 0-75' lakeshore setback zone where no <br />hardcover or structure is normally allowed, subject to the <br />following conditions: <br />1. Hardcover in the 0-75 ’ zone shall be reduced from he <br />existing 26.78% to a level of 18.8% by removal of existing <br />hardcover areas identified on Exhibit A attached, and these <br />areas shall revert to grass. Hardcover in the 75-250' <br />lakeshore setback zone shall likewise be decreased to 45.9% <br />as shown o.. Exhibit A. The site plan and hardcover <br />calculation basis for this approval is attached as Exhibit A <br />to this resolution. <br />2. The applicants are advised that no future hardcover <br />increases on the property will be approved, and any future <br />proposal to Increase hardcover on the property might be <br />approved only in conjunction with concurrent removals of <br />pre-existing hardcover on the property, resulting in either <br />a net decrease or no net increase in hardcover on the <br />property. <br />3. Since the current proposal is far a 1 story addition at <br />this corner of the house, any future proposal to place a <br />second story atove that addition will require a new variance <br />application. <br />4. Authorities granted by this resolution run with the <br />property not with the applicants, but are permissive only <br />and must be exercised by application for a building permit <br />within one year of the date of Council approval, or this <br />variance will expire on that date {___________________). <br />Page 3 of 5