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� � � Cit o� ORONO .� � • RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL • NO. /v2 � oZ � • • • WHEREAS , the City Council is charged with the responsibility of enforcing the Orono Zoning Code in order to promote the intents and purposes thereof including the preservation of the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of Orono; and NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that based upon all the ` testimony and memoranda submitted by the apnlicants, his agents , the neighbors adjacent thereto and their agents , and by City staff , the City Council grants the variances as noted hereinafter for the following reasons : ` I . F��?DINGS C1F FACT 1. That Jack Rhode ' s lot, commonly known as 1410 Bohns Point Road, is a lot of record existing upon January 1 , 1975 , under single separate ownership in an LR-1B us� district. • 2 . � cai�in e�cistzd on thi� 1ot until 1974 or 1975 and that all remains of the cabin were not removed until after Rhode acquired the lot in 1976 . The cabin had been located in the northeast corner of the lot, within 30 feet of the shoreline . 3 . The lot does not meet the minimum requirements of the Zoning Code as to area and width for a single family dwelling in an LR-1B use district. � a) The lot is 29 , 660 square feet in area, based upon the survey of Gary L. Gabriel, dated April 15 , 1980 . b) The lot is 107 feet in width at the rear and 130 feet in width along the shoreline . c) The area ar.d width are not within 800 of the minimum requirements and therefore Council approval of a variance is needed before a single family dwelling can be constructed the-reon. 4 . The lot is isolated from other undeveloped land . It is surrounded on all sides by lakeshore or by lots containing e:cisting single family dwellings . a) Th2 lot is thereLOre unique and the qeneral conditions � of the lot are peculiar to such property. cj There is no adjacent vacant land �r�hich could be added to increase the 1ot width or area conformit�� of this , ,� �� _ . PAGE � OF �-3