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TO: Orono City Council Members CUM" I}EtING <br />FROM: Michael P. Gaffron, Assistant Zoning Administrator <br />DATE: March 3, 1986 hy t 101986 <br />SUBJ: #990 Ward Ferrell, 3405-3411-3415 Watertown RoaVflOF MRO <br />List of Exhibits: <br />A - Applications for variances on 2 vacant lots <br />B - Plat Map <br />C - Property Owners List <br />D - Notice to Applicant 2/20/86 <br />E - Composite Site Plan <br />F - Survey, Soils Report, Site Plan <br />G - Survey, Soils Report, Site Plan <br />H - Survey, Soils Report, Site Plan <br />I - Staff memos 11/13/85, '6/86 <br />for existing house, east lot <br />for center lot <br />for west lot <br />J - Minutes: Planning Commission 4/.15/85; Council 5/28/85; <br />Planning Commission 11/18/85; Planning Commission 2/18/86 <br />K - Tax History, 1974 - 1985 <br />L - Council Minutes September 22, 1958 <br />M - Pertinent Ordinances Dating to 1950 <br />N - 1981 Draft Denial Resolution - Alden Anderson property, 1900. <br />Shoreline Dr. (similar case) <br />Council originally reviewed this application in May, 1985 as a zoning <br />appeal, at which time Council gave applicant general direction that. perhaps <br />1 additional building site would be considered, out that 2 additional <br />building sites wool.-' not be looked upon favorably. Please review Exhibit <br />D, the composite site plan for this 2.9 acre group of parce's. Applicant <br />is requesting permission to build houses on each of the two vacant lots <br />adjacent to his home. The lots are substandard i.- -ire: and width based on <br />the current 2-acre, 200 foot width standards. <br />To brief ly review the code standards that previous,' y and currently affect <br />this property: <br />1950 Toning Ordininc.e - (Prior to division of this property into <br />separate parcels) - Property zoned I -acre min. lot size. <br />1955 - Original Platting Code <br />1958 - Ferrell builds house at 3405 Watertown Road, requests to build <br />a second house on property per minutes of 9/22/58. Ferrell presumably <br />gold by Herb Ross, Mayor, that in orde, to build a second house would <br />require a subdivision, since 195C zoning ordinance allowed only one <br />residence per lot. <br />1959 - Ferrell presumabl, gmpleted subdivision. 10/12/59 - Adoption <br />of Oidinance #22 - a) requited minimum lot area of 1 acre, min. lot <br />width of 140', which Ferrell lots would meet or nearly meet.. b) also <br />allowed Council to approve building permits for substandard lots held <br />in single separate ownership, inferred that. substandard common- <br />