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applicant's objectives; and finding that the City Engineer's <br />reconsiended modifications to the proposal provide a plan <br />that is more consistent with past City practices regarding <br />fill in lakeshore areas, while still providing applicant <br />with the ability to improve his property by increasing its <br />maintainability and usefulness. <br />7. At the Regular City Council Meeting on June 12, 1989, <br />the City Council voted 5-0 to conceptually deny the <br />variances and conditional use permit in their entirety, <br />finding the proposal not supported by the necessary <br />hardships and as not being consistent with the City's stated <br />policies and past practice regarding work in lakeshore <br />zones. The Orono Council further directed City staff to <br />draft a resolution of denial. <br />8. Until after the application for variances and the <br />conditional use permit was recommended for only limited <br />approval by the Planning Commission, the City had received <br />no complaints from the neighboring property owner regarding <br />runoff and water accumulation problems on his property. The <br />accumulation of runoff waters on the adjacent property owned <br />by Charles Reid at 1400 Baldur Park Road, has not been <br />demonstrated to place the neighboring residence in jeopardy <br />of flooding. The adjacent property at 1400 Baldur Park Road <br />is naturally lower in elevation than the applicant's <br />property. Construction of the retaining wall and placement <br />of fill on applicant's property would not necessarily <br />eliminate any runoff accumulation problem that may exist. <br />Such a problem might be more appropriately addressed by <br />minor additions of fill or site grading on that neighboring <br />property. <br />9. The proposed retaining wall and fill will have a visual <br />impact from the Lake, and the proposed location of the <br />retaining wall abutting the lot line would not allow for <br />appropriate screening within applicant's property. <br />10. The land alterations proposed to be conducted within <br />the lakeshore protected area ^d-75' from the lakeshore) are <br />found to be in conflict with the following principles and <br />goals set forth in Orono's Conjnunity Management Plan: <br />Page 3 of 7