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Resolution No. 929 0age 2 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of Orono hereby makes the following findings of fact: 1. That McCleary owns three parcels of property in the B-2 use district (block 7, Bayside Addition to Lake Minnetonka; and lots 21 and part of lot 22, Aud. Sub. 203) which property is occupied by a commercial marina business known as Stubbs Bay Marina. 2. That the only reason the McCleary property was zoned B-2 is that a small bait shop and fishing boat rental business had operated on this site since the 1960's. 3. That all the surrounding property is zoned LR-lA, Lakeshore Residential, or RR-lA or RR -1B, Rural Residential, and all the surrounding property is occupied as single family residential property with no commercial use within two miles of this property. 4. That McCleary also owns property in the LR-lA use district • (lot 23, Aud. Sub. 203) which property is occupied by a residence and which residence uses a private dock on a parcel of,property known as "part of lot 22, Aud. Sub. 203", which parcel is separate from that parcel used for commercial purposes. 5. That the commercial property use is therefore inconsistent with the surrounding residential land use. 6. That, effective January 1, 1975,when the current Orono Zoning Code was adopted, this property could have been zoned LR-lA with the existing marina being declared a non -conforming use of property and that such a des ignatlon_.would have been consistent with the surrounding land uses, consistent with standard planning.practices and consistent with similar zoning designations in other areas of the City. 7. That the historic use of the marina property was for bait sales and fishing boat rental and that as an adjunct. to that ` use, certain temporary wooden docks were erected in the public waters of Stubbs Bay, Lake Minnetonka, which docks were used to service the fishing boats and fishermen utilizing the services offered by the marina.