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V: 3 v /rye April 18, 1986 Planning Commission City of Orono P.O. Box 66 Crystal Bay, MN 55323 Re: Commercial Use of Single Family Residences as Motels/Restaurants Zoning Ame:Idment Application #1017 Dear Members of the Commission: Please permit us to again raise our concerns and objections to the City of Orono's permitting single family residences to be used as motels/restaurants. In our view Orono is a unique cc inity, and it is that unique- ness that induced us to purchase our home. It is unique not only visually and statistically (witness its "country roads", low density housing, wetlands, an: limited commercial develop- ment), but also because it has taken specific action to preserve its uniqueness. This is something other communities have not done. Examples? Orono took upon itself the task of on -site sewage treatment management, thereby preserving its rural size lots. Another? Orono has attempted to keep County Rd. 15 a two lane road, thereby protecting all those homeowners, their property values, and t:ie character of the City'-- lake frontage. In short, Orono is unique because it has made. an effort to pre- serve its main characteristic (rural -like single family residency). Now, is this proposed amendment by itself equivalent to widening County Rd. 15? Obviously not. But that doc not mean that there cannot be longer -term implications and unfor °n results that will follow from approval. And it does not i that Orono officials should feel at all obliged to be accommodating with a plan that is, no matter how you cut it, the opposite of what single family residency is all about. We note that when this diseus:�ion was last brought up, there was considerable material developed about where a "B&B" would fit into the existing; community. A "B&B" was called "quasi- conmercial". "Continental Breakfast", not meals, would be served. Pe,-)ple using the facilities would be "guests". We are reminded of the joke about the woman who wan asked �,y a man if she would sleep with him for, first, one million dollars (yes she would),