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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday, November 23, 2015 7:00 o’clock p.m. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Page 7 of 41 illogical and contrary to the City’s ordinances and policies. Large vehicles or small, there is no difference due to the requirements for the City or the Fire Department for a 20-foot roadway to be installed. Steadman stated he would ask the Council to move forward with the resolution approving the preliminary plat. As was mentioned, Steadman stated he did have permission from the Jacobs’ family to add an additional condition. This condition has to do with being proactive with the police chief and the community service officer with regard to traffic during school bus timing. The condition is as follows: A contractor shall provide the Orono Police Chief with projected delivery and traffic construction schedule, including any estimate of the number and types of vehicles during the school bus timing. Based on the projection or actual observations on Heritage Road, if the Orono Police Chief believes that the level of construction traffic from the construction of the extension of the road and/or construction of one or more of the homes poses an imminent threat to the safety of the children who are boarding the bus during the school year, he may arrange for a community service officer to be present during that specific period of time and the applicant will pay for that time, with a cost not to exceed $50 an hour, unless there is credible evidence that shows that the following threshold is not low enough. The level of construction traffic that would be required for the presence of the CSO shall be at a minimum of five vehicles during a specific half hour time period when the school bus normally arrives, picks the children up and leaves Heritage Lane. Any such threshold may be waived by the police chief if there is an imminent threat to the safety of the children or others on Heritage Lane due to construction traffic during that half hour period. Steadman stated that is another protocol that they have put in place. Printup asked what that half-hour period is for the proposed additional condition. Steadman stated it would be during the time the bus picks up or drops off the children. McMillan asked what they plan to do with the outlots. Steadman stated they will address that with the LMCD at the appropriate time. Steadman stated the key objective is if any of the future homeowners did have a large boat, there would be the capability to keep it there. The Jacobs may want to keep a dock or they may not, but at this time they are proposing only three outlots. McMillan asked if they would be tied to a specific lot. Steadman indicated they would not be. Walsh stated the developer has done a great job and the residents on Foxhill have done the same thing but that the two parties are coming from a different perspective on what they view as their concerns. Walsh stated he does not want it to digress into anger. Walsh stated he is hearing Mr. Steadman state that even if it is the small trucks with the workers, he does not want them to go through the Jacobs’ property whether they drive down the gravel road or park up at the roundabout and walk down. Steadman stated that is correct.