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July R, 1985 TO: City Council Orono, 'Minnesota FROMt Jerry W. Wheeler 3399 Crystal Clay lid. Wayzata, 'tn. 55391 L,@C5UWjC�(�� D J - 8 1985 CITY OF ORONU Chts letter is to reaffirm my complaint of April 10, 1985 regard inr- Mr. Carl Johnson's and `.Ir. ;lick Carl's viola- tions of our City's ordinances. 1 w• i to repeat that I am prepared to eithdraw my complaint, should any satisfact- ory compromise or solution be sugl;ested by anyone. In the absence of that, I will expect the city is enforce our laws fairly and equally against ALL KNOWN VIOLATIONS AND V I OLATC I{S . The most perplexing ingredient in this present state of affairs is the fact that a just solution is immediately at hand. Time after time it has been generally agreed by every- one; Councilmen, Planning Commission and City Staff, that gravel driveways are not truely hardcover: 1.) Hardcover is a "fuzzy issue" (Mayor Butler), 2.) Gravel is "considered" hardcover because it often gets blacktopped when it functions as a driveway. i;e don't have a permit requirement for blacktopping or paving (Tom Frahm); 3.) If water will not soak into it, it is consider- ed hardcover (Mayor Butler)l 4.) The original drafters of this ordinance direct- ed that we not get "all hunk; up on nurn`)ers"; these are not hard and fast rules; It should I— relevant what else is being, done, what other improvements are being, made to the land and what improvements are being made for the community (Jean MaI:lusth) . ;.) How can we draft a hart, and fast rule (Tom Ft lhm)? 6.) We should take a look at whetha-r we are correct- ly addressing what is and what isn't hardcover. May - he a different conclusion is appropriate where the runoff is absorbed before it reaches ',e lake (Jim Grabek). 7.) ±;ut how do we police gravel driveways when we know tha so many of them enr' up getting blacktopped and we don't find out about them until two to three years after the fact (Tom Frahm)Y The con. ;slob may be just a bit too simplistic and there- fore lgnorec4. The council has agreed in the past that r-ravel is not hardcover. ".tit, it becomes a ma for concern when it is acting as a riveway or parking pad because it is often blacktopped Paved without city knowledi-e. The so'ltttinn, as simple it may be, 1s to go ahead .invi re- gttlre a permit for any form of pzvint- In Orono. 1 r!on't c.lain that this is a "cure-all" but it wouldd, ror.t certai►i- 1% be a rya,or 4tep in the rit-lit f'irertiori.