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• MINUTES OF THE ORONO PLANNING COMMISSION WORK SESSION WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1994 ROLL The Orono Planning Commission met on the above date with the following members present: Vice -Chair Stephen Peterson, Janice Berg, Charles Nolan, Jr., Sandy Smith and Candace Rowlette. Councilmember Gabriel Jabbour was present representing Council. City staff was represented by Building & Zoning Administrator Jeanne Mabusth, Assistant Planning & Zoning Administrator Michael Gaffron and Recorder Carole Haseman. Members of the public present were Todd Nelson representing Minnetonka Boat Works; Rich Anderson representing Sailors World and North Shore Drive Marinas; Jim Dunn representing Lakeside Marina; Dan Crear, 1980 Spates Avenue; Camilo Castellon, 1950 Shoreline Drive; Beverly Blomberg, 3180 North Shore Drive; and Lee Fischback, 3135 North Shore Drive. The meeting was called to order at 5:13 p.m. Peterson welcomed members of the public and began the meeting by stating the intention of the work session is to continue to review and discuss the B -2 Code, specific topics for this session including parking, restaurants, fishing tournaments, commercial dock locations and lake maintenance operations. Gaffron presented a brief review from previous discussions of permitted, accessory and . conditional uses. Accessory uses must have a permitted use before there can be an accessory use. Conditional uses can stand alone but require special Council approval. Permitted uses must be able to individually stand alone as a marina use and include rental slips, sales of boats, motors, trailers and marine accessories, repair and servicing of boats, on -land storage of boats in summer and winter, marine fuel sales, and bait and fishing tackle sales. Several accessory uses not currently allowed in the B -2 have been discussed at last month's work session and concluded by the Planning Commission to be inappropriate for B -2. These include ice skating rinks, tobagonning, Christmas tree sales, parasailing and automobile winter access. Accessory uses considered by Planning Commission to be appropriate in the B -2 so far include signs, head pump out for boats, sale of prepackaged foods, dive shop, club house for slip customers to use, sailing schools, rental boats, one caretaker dwelling unit for security purposes, sailboard sales /rental, ice fishing tackle sales but not ice fishing houses or equipment for sales /rental, and ice boats. Accessory uses left for further discussion were fishing tournaments, cross country ski sales /rental and snowmobile operations. Most of the conditional uses were left for further discussion except for cigarette sales, sale of 3.2 beer and transient boat launching which remain as reasonable uses. Additional information is needed before any discussion can be done regarding the conditional uses for boat clubs, on- demand launch of customer's boat stored on- site, charter boats, lake structure maintenance operation base and restaurants. is Gaffron noted that parking and landscape uses and performance standards need to be addressed at this time. Under Subd. 8 Parking Requirements, it is suggested that parking areas "need not 1