08-17-2015 Planning Commission Packet

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� MINUTES OF THE ORONO PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Monday,July 20,2015 6:30 o'clock p.m. an engineer review of the road as a complete system, subject to Staff recommendations and City Engineer recommendations, and subject to a road agreement being entered into between the two homeowners associations prior to going before the City Council. Gaffron noted Staff would need the road agreement before final plat. VOTE: Ayes 5,Nays 0. Landgraver noted the discussion of the Planning Commission was that the road width be kept at 24 feet. 4. #15-3758 CITY OF ORONO AND CLIFFORD OTTEN,LOT LINE REARRANGEMENT AND REZONING,2251 PINE RIDGE LANE AND PINS 34-118-23-22-0019, 8:01 P.M.—8:21 P.M. Gaffron stated the City requires additional land adjacent to City Well No. 3 in order to install a second well to the northerly well system for the City. The property is located right behind the northeast corner of the Otten operation,the Service 800 building, and the strip mall. The City currently has a well house for Well No. 3. The area is accessed from Willow Drive along the road system that Cliff Otten has created for his business. The City, in needing to add a second well, requires additional land, and is proposing to acquire a piece of land from the adjacent property. An agreement has been reached with the adjacent property owner in which the City will acquire the necessary acreage, resulting in 2251 Pine Ridge becoming smaller than the 2-acre minimum of the RR-1B District. The plat of east Willow Woods was created in 1990 and includes the creation of a small parcel, Outlot B, to be used for a City well as a critical element of the City's north water system. Mr. Otten has agreed to sell a portion of his abutting property to the City. The sale is contingent on a number of conditions: 1. The 60-foot right-of-way corridor known as Outlot C,East Willow Woods, is to be vacated. Outlot C is owned by Otten and the City has an underlying easement with certain use restrictions. That easement would have to be extinguished or vacated. 2. A sewer connection to be provided to the remainder of 2251 Pine Ridge Lane, with the City to waive the sewer connection fee. 3. Rezoning of the remainder parcel from RR-1B to R-lA will allow the Otten parcel to remain conforming. This 1-acre zoning is the same as that existing in the adjacent Sugar Woods development. 4. City to provide driveway easement for remainder parcel. 5. City to grant the lot split to establish separate tax parcel ownership. Gaffron noted the lot line rearrangement does not result in any structure setbacks becoming nonconforming. The existing house will still be approximately 70 feet from the new east lot line. The impacts to surrounding residential properties are anticipated to be minimal. There will be some vehicle and machinery noise during well construction,but after that the site will only require the Page 15 of 25