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MINUTES OF THE ORONO PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Monday, March 21 , 2016 6:30 o'clock p.m. skinen noted they have the ability to construct a home on the lot without a variance and that the van e being requested is for widening the driveway and the additional hardcover. Leskinen stat City ca t tell them they cannot build on the lot. he lives on the lot next door and that he can verify that the lots are wa family home . Mitte aedt stated he noticed he set the house at an angle so he could s eeze it on there. Mittelstaedt stated in hl Yiew it should be a parking lot for the park. Chair Leskinen closed the pu · hearing at 6 :54 p .m. Thiesse stated if you take the area o e garage and the area for the . 'veway, that is more than the square footage that they are asking for in addi nal hardcover. Thiesse , ted the garage is 440 square feet and the driveway is another 500 square feet. · esse stated the ·, should not prevent them from having a garage and a driveway and that the request is Schoenzeit noted the small lot size allows m 1,500 squ e feet of structural coverage and they are proposing 1,232 , which is another atte to keep the size o e house reasonable . Leskinen stated she is more incl" d to grant the variance for the wt er driveway to provide additional off-street parking given the owness of the street. Leskinen stated does not believe it would be reasonable to deny it giv , the practical difficulties . are other homes in the neighborhood that are very similar a moved, Thiesse seconded, to recommend approval of Application No. 1 -11 , Lan urce, LLC, 3438 Lyric A venue, granting of lot area and lot width variances , su ect to Staff mmendations. VOTE: Ayes 5, Nays 0. 4. #16-3812 GREG REITAN AND SALLY...N EUBAUER, 925 BROWN ROAD NORTH, VARIANCES , 6:57 P.M. -7:07 P. Greg Reitan, Applicant, was present. Gaffron stated the applicant is requesting an average lakeshore setback variance in order to construct a new residence on the property. The property is situated on Brown Road and Dickey Lake. Because the existing residence structure on the adjacent lakeshore lot to the south is very near Brown Road, the applicants' existing home and proposed addition are lakeward of the defined average lakeshore setback line. The property is nearly two acres _ in area, and both the existing home and proposed additions meet all other setback, hardcover, and structural coverage requirements , including the required 150-foot setback from the ordinary high water level of Dickey Lake . Gaffron displayed an aerial photograph of the area. Gaffron noted both the lot to the north and the lot to the south are lakeshore lots . Page 5 of 21