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MINUTES OF THE <br /> ORONO PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING <br /> Tuesday, January 20, 2004 <br /> 6:00 o'clock p.m. <br /> (#04-2969 TERRY AND GRETCHEN BLOUNT, 1390 CHERRY PLACE, <br /> CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT AND VARIANCE—Continued) <br /> Blount stated that the most critical items to them would include the main floor master <br /> bedroom, sun porch, and workshop. <br /> Acting Chair Mabusth encouraged the applicant to meet with her architect and bring the <br /> Commission revised drawings, which would include one stairway access to the lake. <br /> Blount asked the Commission whether what they were requesting was within the realm of <br /> feasibility. <br /> While she was hesitant to supply the applicant with specific percentages, Bremer asked <br /> why the applicant wished to keep 2 walls in the first place. She questioned whether the <br /> applicant felt keeping the walls would be helpful to their case. Bremer pointed out that, <br /> while keeping the foundation might be possible, the applicants might be better off pulling <br /> the home back and starting over. <br /> Blount stated that she hoped to keep the fireplace on one of the walls. <br /> Rahn encouraged the applicant to question their architect, as to how they might benefit the <br /> most, for instance by pulling the home back and constructing a front loading garage could <br /> reduce the hardcover closer to 25%. <br /> Bremer moved, Fritzler seconded, to table Application#04-2969, Terry and Gretchen <br /> Blount, 1390 Cherry Place, for the purpose of redesign.VOTE: Ayes 6,Nays 0. <br /> (#11) #04-2971 HICKORY FINE HOMES INC.,3220 AND 3240 WATERTOWN <br /> ROAD, LOT LINE RE-ARRANGEMENT (8:21-8:43 P.M.) <br /> William Henderson, the Applicant, was present. <br /> Gaffron stated that this is a proposed 2-lot residential re-plat of property located adjacent to <br /> Stubbs Bay Creek. In August 1990, the City of Orono approved the plat of Senn Orono <br /> Addition, creating Lot 1 (3240 Watertown Road), Lot 2 and Outlot A (combined as 3220 <br /> Watertown Road). The property contains protected wetlands and a protected tributary <br /> creek. The plat was approved two years before adoption of Orono's Shoreland Ordinance <br /> (Zoning Code Section 10.56) and one year prior to enactment of the Minnesota Wetland <br /> Conservation Act(WCA). Gaffron noted that both of these subsequent regulations are <br /> applicable to the future development of the properties, and each has significant impacts on <br /> their buildability. Neither lot has ever been built on. <br /> As a result, applicants are proposing a complete lot line rearrangement to allow relocation <br /> of the proposed driveway(which was never built and now would not be approved in its <br /> PAGE 20 of 53 <br />