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C, • MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday, December 8, 2008 7:00 o'clock p.m. 5. #08 -3388 BOYER BUILDERS ON CHERRYAVENUE, Continued that the applicant's plan is not acceptable. Smyth that it would be more beneficial to improve a buff The Planning Commission recommended approva section of the addition being shifted two feet tows. for the driveway. The shed may remain but must by the applicant showing the change in the garage submitted. Hardcover in the 75 -250 foot zone wa; Further, the Planning Commission recommended applicant providing a plan, acceptable to the City' averaging would occur; and two, approval of buff plan acceptable to the City's wetland consultant a: sidewalk into the 50 -foot impervious surface setb, Planning Staff recommends approval of a hardco-v 28.47 percent hardcover in the 75 -250 foot zone. regarding the appropriate mitigation'for the encro; a remodeling of the whole house, so it is unlikely next 20 or 30 years. Requiring improvement of a existing encroachment as well as for the proposed lake more than the existing situation. White asked what options were considered for OFMATTHEWAND AMYHERMAN, 3825 recommending, rather than utilizing buffer averaging, area ten feet wide adjacent to the wetlands. of the hardcover variance subject to the 24 -foot wide 3 Cherry Avenue and a permeable material being used >e relocated to comply with setbacks. A revised plan ocation and elevation and the relocated shed was reduced from 30.5 to 29.5 percent. )proval of the buffer averaging subject to, one, the wetland consultant, showing where the buffer averaging conditioned on the applicant providing a i elimination of the encroachment of the front variance but without the shed, which would result in addition, Planning Staff also concurs with Mr. Smyth iments into the buffer setback. The addition is part of provement of the buffers would be triggered in the ffer area and/or rain gardens would mitigate for the .croachment and would benefit the wetlands and the iminating the variance. Turner stated the option for eliminating the setbac a different location, which would have resulted in being required. At the present time the property o the house is at 932.4 feet, which barely makes the west has its own elevation requirements, which in increased to 934'. As a result, it would not be fea; Murphy asked whether it would be possible to Turner stated she did not review that option tho likely the hardcover would not be decreased by Murphy commented the proposed plan is a substa would like to see the hardcover decreased if at all McMillan asked what is meant by improved Turner stated John Smyth is looking for a buffer which does not meet the definition of a wetland variances would have been to position the addition in 1 increase in the hardcover due to the longer driveway y has a single -car garage and the lowest opening into oodplain elevation from the lake. The wetland to the ns that the lowest opening into the structure should be )le to reconvert part of the basement back into garage. the amount of hardcover in the driveway at all. ly, but that given the angle of the driveway, it is than half a percent. improvement over what currently exists but that he native vegetative plantings rather than just grass, McMillan asked whether Smyth is suggesting the buffer be a certain width. • 3 of 8