04-28-2025 - Agenda Packet CC - regular meeting

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Date: April 28, 2025 Item: 11 Presenter: Adam Edwards, City Administrator / Engineer Section: Consent Agenda Title: Agreement - Private Driveway - Hillside Place 1.Purpose: The purpose of this action item is to gain Council approval for an agreement to replace a 1994 agreement that allows a private driveway within Hillside Place, an improved Right of Way. 2.Background: In 1994 the city and the residents of 3286 and 3290 Navarre Lane entered into an agreement to allow a private driveway to be constructed within the undeveloped right of way to serve the two properties and connect them to Navarre Lane. That agreement also placed restriction of two other properties that abut the right of way to ensure they did not connect to the private driveway in Hillside place. In the case of 2260 Bayview Place, it was required to have and maintain a driveway connection to Bayview Place and 3300 Navarre Lane was required to have a driveway connected to Navarre lane. This was done because then, as is still the case today, Orono city code limits the number of residences that may share a driveway to two. The original agreement restricted the driveway to the western most 15 feet of the right of way. This is no longer practical without negatively impacting other abutting property owners. The residents of 3286 and 3290 have requested to pave the driveway and as it does not currently lie within the area approved in the 1994 agreement, a new agreement is necessary. A new agreement was prepared to allow the driveway to be located within the middle 12 feet of the Right of Way. (Exhibit A.) 3.Staff Recommendation: Staff recommends approval of the new private driveway agreement. AGENDA ITEM COUNCIL ACTION REQUESTED Motion to approve the Driveway agreement at Exhibit A. Exhibits A. Private Driveway Agreement 51