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To: Mary Butler, Mayor Mark E. Bernhardson, City Administrator Orono Council Members Planning Commission Members From: Mi.cl,acl P. Gaffron, Assistant Planning & Zoning Administrator Date: August 14, 1986 Subject: #1064 City of Orono - Spates Avenue Near County Road 15 - Conditional Use Permit/Variance Aoning District - LR-: A Application - After -the -Fact Conditional Use Permit and Variance For Lift Station Pertinent Code Section: 10.20, Subdivision 3 (D) Subdivision 3. Conditional ;jses. Within any "R-lA" One Family Residential District_, no structure or land shall be used for the following uses except by conditional use permit: D. Public Service Structures. Public service structures, including but not limited to electric transmission lines, buildings such as telephone exchange stations, booster or pressure regulating stations, wells, and plumbing stations, elevated tanks, lift stations and electrical power sub- stations, provided no building shall be located within fifty feet from any lot line of an abutting lot in an "R" District. Prior to granting such permit it shall be found that the architectural design of service structures is compatible to the neighborhood in which it is to be located and thus will promote the general welfare. Discussion: The City was apparently remiss in not making a formal application for Conditional Use Permit for the Crystal Bay Lift Station, based on the code section presented above, which was pointed out to staff after -the -fact. A review of City files indicates that this code section has been in the Zoning Code since at least 1968, but we have no record of any previous formal applications by the City for the ma', other lift stations constructed since that time. It would appear th" standard past procedure has been to approve these lift stations as part of the public hearing review process for overall sewer projects.