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<br />“Your well-built project begins with and endures on Firm Ground” <br /> <br />Firm Ground Architects & Engineers Inc. 612.819.1835 <br /> <br />275 Market Street, Suite 368 info@firmgroundae.com <br />Minneapolis, Minnesota 55405 www.firmgroundae.com | Follow us on <br /> <br />November 17, 2015 <br /> <br />A Planned Unit Development containing 22 single family home <br />lots has been proposed for the area that is surrounded by <br />Shadywood Road, Kelly Avenue, and Baywind Christian <br />Church. The heavily wooded area with wetlands to the South <br />will be protected and kept intact to provide a visual buffer zone <br />between the existing neighborhood and the new construction <br />homes. Based on a meeting with Orono officials Lili McMillan <br />(Mayor), Jeremy Barnhart (Community Development Director) <br />and Mike Gaffron (Senior Planner), we have proposed a <br />scheme that we believe aligns with their suggestions and the city’s long term desires for the right <br />kind of growth. <br /> Additionally we have taken comments from the sketch plan review with the City Council <br />on October 12th and incorporated ideas and suggestions made over the course of that <br />discussion. We have reduced the number of homes sites by 2 from 24 to 22 and spread the lots <br />out so that they are larger to allow for more flexibility in siting to <br />preserve the existing mature tree canopy on the overall site. We are <br />also allowing the street to be more organic, again allowing us to <br />work around existing trees. Only four of the homes will back up to <br />the existing Conservation Zone on the site further reducing the <br />potential for disruption of view form Kelly Avenue. Note the picture <br />on the right is taken from what would be to the rear of the homes