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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday, April 11, 2011 7:00 o'clock p.m. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Page 6 of 30 (6. #11-3501 YOUR BOAT CLUB, LLC, 1444 SHORELINE DRIVE, Continued) and if Staff is satisfied that the objective requirements are met and adequate parking is available for the site, the CUP should be granted. The applicant has provided updated versions of his letter of introduction and narrative. He also has submitted a variety of exhibits in support of his analysis of the parking situation. They include the following: Appendix A is a newly created parking easement submitted to Staff on April 6 that allows commercial parking on the residential properties at 1440 and 1442 Shoreline. This is being reviewed by the City Attorney. It is likely that he will be recommending a companion document in the form of an agreement between the property owner(s) and the City, to ensure the easement cannot be extinguished without City input or approval. Appendices B, C, and D are a map, air photo and letter from the property owner indicating that Slip #2 mapped on the Brown’s Bay dock system does not exist due to unfavorable lake bed conditions, resulting in an actual total slip count of 97 and not 98. Appendices E and F are a letter from tenant Marine Max and an excerpt from their lease that defines six slips which are designated for their sales, display and service use, and which will not be rented out. In the Sailors World boat club CUP, approval in 1995, similar slips not slated for rental use were excluded from the base slip numbers for calculating parking needs, so excluding those six has a precedent. Appendix G is a sketch of the existing paved parking lot adjacent to the main marina building. The sketch shows that 24 marked parking stalls are available at this lot, which has been confirmed on site by Staff. Appendix H is a surveyor’s sketch of a proposed parking layout for the triangle area, indicating that five stalls can be made available for use while allowing adequate room for cars to backup and enable them to enter CR15 moving forward. The intent is to avoid uncontrolled access to CR15. While the layout does not conform to certain of the B-2 district standards established for parking areas as to location, setbacks, etc., this is no different than most of the parking areas located at the site. Based on the new information submitted by the applicant, Staff finds that there are 97 viable slips at the marina, of which six slips are encumbered for use by Marine Max in its sales, display, and service business. These slips will not be rented out, and a precedent has been set for excluding them from the base parking calculation. Furthermore, Marine Max is required to have eight parking stalls available for the sales and service operation, so including these six slips in the base parking calculation would be redundant. Per the provisions of current code Section 78-668, the updated parking requirements for this site are as follows: 1. Six parking spaces shall be provided for each ten boat slips on water or on land, which equals 54.6 stalls. Item #03 - CC Agenda - 04/25/2011 Approval of Council Minutes 04/11/2011 [Page 6 of 30]