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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday, October 12, 2015 7:00 o’clock p.m. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Page 33 of 37 15. #15-3783 JOHN T. BESSESSEN/DAVID DELANEY, 2465 SHADYWOOD ROAD AND 2500 KELLY AVENUE, SKETCH PLAN (continued) Wasmoen stated building three or four high-end homes backing up to the back side of a grocery store would be a tough sell. In addition, creating three or four lots would also make it very difficult to have a homeowners association and still have the ability to control the design of the homes. Printup stated in the past he has stated he likes small homes and smaller lots, but that he does not see that happening on Kelly Avenue. Printup stated he does not see anything wrong with three large lots and that he does not want to see low income housing in the Kelly Avenue area. Wasmoen stated some of the homes would be designed toward the empty nesters and others would appeal to young families. Wasmoen stated they are trying to create a walkabout community with access to the public beach and the grocery store, which would be appealing to all the homes in the neighborhood. Wasmoen stated adding density also adds strength to the retail that is already there and that they are looking to do something to help support the retail. McMillan noted there is a lot of commercial down County Road 15 to Navarre and that they do not need to add to that strip. McMillan stated she did not want to use the word affordable because it has a bad connotation but every mayor in this area has said they need to figure out how to keep diversity in the housing market. McMillan stated in her view the Kelly Avenue side is too dense and that she would like to see the house sizes stay the same on the rest of the parcel. McMillan stated she would also like to see bigger lots with more tree buffers on them. McMillan stated she would like to see three, perhaps four homes face Kelly, with four or five lots east of the brown homes shown on the plan, and then to the far right on Shadywood she would like to keep it similar to the single-family residential homes but that perhaps there could be some townhomes in that area. McMillan stated she is not sure whether it would make sense to have two homeowners associations since the homes to the west would be more expensive. Wasmoen stated the price of the homes does not matter in terms of the homeowners association, and as a PUD, the City will have some input into the development. McMillan stated the Kelly Avenue side would also have the conservation area that would need to be dealt with by the homeowners association. Levang asked how much density should be on the Shadywood side. McMillan stated she would prefer 10 but that she would be open to hearing how the developer can fit 12 homes in there. Levang asked how much land would be required for the three-plexes. Wasmoen stated he would need to look at that. Wasmoen stated they could look at some twin homes on a few of the lots.