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r <br />TO: Mayor Butler <br />Mark Bcrnhardson, City Administrator <br />Orono Council Members <br />FROM: Michael P. Gaff ron, ,%ssi stant 'Zoning Admini st --itor <br />DATE: November 7, 1.986 <br />5UBJ: #1082 John F. Dougan, 2785 White Oak Circle - <br />Condit;onal Use Permit - Resolution <br />List of Exhibitt <br />A - Memo an.. ,xhibts of 10/17/86 <br />B - Planning Commission Minutes 10/20/86 <br />C - Resolution <br />This :s a request to excaiate a storage pond and Swale for flood <br />ant rol purposes. Please review t,',e memo and eyhibits of <br />10/17/86. The Planning Commission at their 10/29i86 meeting <br />voted 4-0 to reconunend appiL val >-ubject tn applicant granting a <br />copse-vation and flowage easement ever th, pond area, and subject <br />to a developers ag t• ment siiice this s a sensitive area in the <br />watershed and might have some impact upstream if work is not <br />completed cord v. <br />rncilmember ( _i i lahan, 1­ :_,ent at the Planning Commission <br />meeting, rpquest,d that staff investigate the work which was <br />previously done. upstream to detern,tine what effect that might hava <br />had on the curren-c runoff si'uation. Staff would note the <br />following: <br />1. There is i cul ver* u ei to Oak Circle ' st east of <br />the intersection with O. d C a! Bay Poacu. ii s ou 1 vent <br />drains approximately 1 acre c' 'property 790 White <br />Oak Cir-:�le. This would apt,. ar to be an insignificant <br />addition .,, the ova! al.' flow through Dougan's property, and <br />will not be affect (­ by Dougan's project. <br />2. on the west i de o-" Old Crystal fj:�y Road, some grading <br />work wws done a few Years ago on the ,.*ton property at 42`� <br />Old Crys L i 1 Bay Road. Although no pertu.t was ever issuca by <br />t► -. n•ti.lding & Zoning : _rtment 'or .his work, fu3.lir Works <br />Cvt �atcr John Gerhart+.son nova. what this work w- ~ ao "a by <br />the property owner to clear tt.e existing drainageway w i,-tt <br />had gradilally filled in behind thr- drivew. - culve-t u.e <br />year- causing culveLt freeze up and and ! iiny problt ., <br />the Lawton pror-rty. According t-) John, there was nc <br />siy ,ant Chang.;, :n graces at the loca`ion. Our airphct, <br />bape -)s, taken in atc,ut 1970 (i.t_or to the crea'.. ion of <br />Wbit.! utak Circle), to s. t.+ mowed lawn area on •ithjr siee of <br />the Lawton dr i vewal ; which apYa T it l y yradua l ] y became too <br />wet to mow as the c,,lvert :`il led i,. un+- fropert; <br />ownetrs re -cleared I the drainageway. Th(r or, apparent <br />difference be*.wee• 0 and today is the 1' 2' wide <br />channe 1 nuw exist )n the Lawton prt j�c -tv, where our <br />airphotos show it i.ire been an unchanne1ized flow <br />pre iously. This ►,,.ay ha• a some effect on tte ve'oc4ty of <br />water reaching Dougan's property by moving onto Dougan's <br />faster tF,an it did previously. <br />