Agenda Packet Cc - regular meeting 10/23/1989

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Members of the City of Orono Planning Commission Ms. Jeanne Mabusth August 31, 1989 Page Three terminates with a cul-de-sac. The City's subdivision regulations, however, state that the maximum cul-de-sac '.ength is 1000 feet. The Preferred Plan eliminates this problem by extending the access road to Leaf Street. We understand that the connection of the access road to Leaf Street is probably inevitable. Prudence suggests that it is better to extend the access road to Leaf Street now, rather than in the future, to eliminate the need for a 1400 foot cul-de-sac and an accompanying variance. In addition, extending the access road to Leaf Street allows for better police and fire protection. Please note that Outlot A, which to ou. knowledge does not seem to serve any purpose, is omitted from the Preferred Plan. 3. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Chadwick, owners of the property shown on the Developer's Revised Plat as the "Exception," desire to purchase, at a price to be negotiated, land adjoining their property to bring their property into compliance with the two -acre minimum. Their wish is in part driven by the age of their septic system, aad the desire to have additional land for its eventual relocation. We also call attention to a letter addressed to the Chadwicks from John M. Lanier, Sr_, dated June 14, 1989, in which Nit. Lanier stated that he recalled a conversation with Jeanne Mabusth during which Mrs. Mabusth inJA-cated tha`. the City would require Don Carlson (whc was considered to he a future developer) to bring the Exception into compliance with the subdivision regulations. The Preferred Plan accomplishes this and accommodates the Chadwick's corcerns. 4. The Preferred Plan provides for buff-. plantings at appropriate locations along Fox Street and Leaf Street. The buffer plantings are necessary to soften the Proposed Development insofar as the subject land contains very little mature vegetation in these places. In sum, we contend that the Fi" 7 3 Plan answers the problems that the Developer night have addre The Preferred Plan proposes a development that, to our knowledge, is free of variances, and deals with the issue of the Exception, without, we believe, imposing an economic hardship on the Developer. In addition to the above, we note that the Developer ld attend to the following before obtaining ;)reliminary plat approval.