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r TO: Mayor and City Council FROM: Mark Bernhardson, City Auminiotrator DATE: October 18, 1985 SUBJECT: Marina and Jc_.nt 'Use Dock Regulation RpnitrTTnN At present marinas and joint use dock faci 1 ities are current ly regulated both by the City of Orono under Ord i nanc:r- 10.4 1 regarding the 13-2 zoning which applies strictly to marinas together with Ordinance 5.42 which apples to commercial and join~ use dock licensing procedures. Joint use docks under our definition apply to any docks used by boats belonging to more than two persons. In addition both of these areas are also regulated by the LaKe Minnetonka Conservation District in selected areas. (As you will recall L.M.C.D. is c-rently looking at requiring a permit for :any dock that has more than two boats at it, if those do not belong to the owner of the property.) Many of the specific subject items are regulated under both to licensing and zoning ordinances in Orono. During the last several years the City has appointed a Marina Committee composd of three members jointly from the Planning Commission and/or Council to review the various marina applications for licenses. These reviews have principally focused on items which because of the concurrent ordinances became land use issues. Many of these land use changes have not subsequently been reviewed by the Planning Commission or appropriate procedures been undergone tc approve such changes. If the Marina Committee was formally established in Ordinance and granted certain powers in this area this may not be a problem, however as it stands the Planning Commission is still required to act on such Land use issues and that appropriate variances and/or conditional. use permits btu issued to permit such. In years past the City attempted to go through its liter, ng process concurrent with/or prior to the issuance of licenses to the marinas by the Lake Minnetonka Conservation District. In 1985 because of L.M.C.D. licensing it was decided that Orono would not have its reviews completed unt i 1 of ter L.M.C.D. licensing was done and the-- marinas were operating which resulted in reviews being done in June, July and August with only routine applications finally issued in the September -October time frame. Tc date there ..are three of the licenses which have not been issued because of problems, associated with those properties. RF..SULTS Because of `he problems issociated with this whole procedure the fc:lluwing -oulty have been realize,i: - fhrr-t of the present marinas do not have current i i,,nses for 1985 incl uding North Shore 1