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C City of ORONO RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL NO. 2576 B) In review of the factual findings noted above, the City finds that to establish a precedent that would allow severely substandard lots to be developed in complete conflict with the established environmental standards for lakeshore development within the City and to be determental to the public health, safety and welfare. The City also looks to the broader environmental principals and goals setforth in its Community Management Plan and the intent of the specific zoning district when dealing with matters related to the public health, safety and welfare. Issues involving the public health, safety and welfare are not only resolved in securing the obvious traffic and drainage concerns of surrounding property owners, but the City must also provide its citizens with defined and approved optimum levels of density, open space and quality of life. 27. Approval of an application that requires a 75% variance to lot • area would establish a negative precedent in the future development of the LR -1C zoning district. The standards and intent of both the City Zoning Code and Community Management Plan would no longer have any effect if the City establishes a precedent of approving variances of this degree. 28. The applicants have failed to satisfactorily respond with supportive data and written response to the City's concerns. The City cannot permit illegally installed dock to remain on a property that cannot sustain a principal residence and found to be in violation of Section 10.03, Subdivision 9 (A) and Section 10.25, Subdivision 5 (A) of the Municipal Code. 29. In review of many of the findings noted above, it is very apparent that applicants had received prior notice or warning prior to the purchase of the property and prior to the installation of the dock that the City regulations may not allow their proposed use of this property. AND, FURTHERMORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City of Orono requires the removal of the illegal dock by May 15, 1989 and that no use can be made of said structure while it remains on the property, and further directs staff to formally contact in writing the adjacent property owner who has installed a dock on applicants' property, Tract F, RLS #1216. Said property owner shall be asked to provide the City with a satisfactory plan to bring the dock into conformance within a specified period of time subject to the City's approval. Page 8 of 9