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rental or trade of products, goods and services. <br />Industrial use means the use of land or buildings for the production, manufacture, <br />warehousing, storage or transfer of goods, products, commodities or other wholesale items. <br />Article IX, Division 1, Sec. 78-1289 "Standards for commercial, public and semipublic uses," states: <br />"Surface -water -oriented commercial uses and public or semipublic uses with similar needs to have <br />access to and use of public waters may be located on parcels or lots with frontage on public waters, if <br />permitted by the underlying zoning district standards." Hennepin County staff calls the proposed <br />expansion of the North Arm access a "commercial use." This is misleading and inaccurate. As <br />described by Tony Borough and the County's consultants, and shown in the attached photographs, <br />the site is clearly being used illegally for industrial purposes and is being redesigned to expand its use <br />for the storage and transfer of rocks and heavy equipment. Furthermore, even if this was a <br />commercial use (it's not — it's industrial), commercial use is not allowed in a LR-1C zoning district. <br />Article IX, Division 1, Sec. 78-1286. - New public and private roads, specifies: "New public and <br />private roads, driveways, parking areas, and public or private watercraft access ramps shall not be <br />constructed within the Shore Setback of the public waters enumerated in section 78-1217. If no <br />alternatives exist, such improvements shall be subject to the standard zoning variance review <br />procedure, and such review shall consider the following...". The proposed redesign is an expansion <br />of the use of the North Arm access by adding two new docks and an industrial loading area to better <br />accommodate industrial uses at the site and are not allowed by Orono Zoning Code. Industrial use in <br />an residential area and in a facility designed for recreational watercraft and anglers is dangerous and <br />inconsistent with basic land use principles. Hard cover appears to extens to the OHW. This is also <br />not allowed. <br />Without the express approval from the City of Orono, Hennepin County's current use of the North <br />Arm access appears to be illegal and should be discontinued. The proposed redesign of the access <br />will increase the illegal use of the site and will use public funds to encourage an expansion of <br />unlawful behavior. <br />City Official Map - https://www.oronomn.gov/DocumentCenter/View/3239/Zoning-Map-12-21-pdf <br />Orono City Zoning Code (Subdivision IV. - LR-1C One -Family Lakeshore Residential District) - <br />https://Iibrary.municode.com/mn/orono/codesZcode_of ordinances? <br />nodeld=TITVILAUS CH78ZORE ARTIVDIRE DIV4LAREDI SDIVOMILAREDI <br />Article IX (Soreland Management) - <br />https://library.municode.com/mn/orono/codes/code_ of ordinances? <br />nodeld=TITVILAUS CH78ZORE ARTIXSHMA <br />174 <br />