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N MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING • Monday, April 24, 2006 7:00 o'Iclock p.m. (6. #05 -3136 TROYBROITZMAN, 1860 S ORELINE DRIVE, Continued) Sansevere asked how often the City allows an applicant to place plantings on a neighbor's property in an effort to offset his removals. Gaffron stated that it is extremely rare or an unusual exception to use adjoining property owners' lots to plant a buffer. Broitzman stated that the house's footprint is 4764 without the 1,000 s.f. veranda, with a main floor of 3285 and 2 "d floor of 4072 s.f. Mayor Peterson reiterated by asking how the applicant could take care of a drainage swale when the property is entirely built out. Although he needed additional information and 'to visit the site, Kellogg suggested that the swale could be pulled onto the subject's property by possibly lowering the garage elevation a little bit to get some grading done within the applicant's property. McMillan pointed out that the existing spruce tr es would likely be lost if the swale collected water in this area. Kellogg concurred, stating that any grade change adjacent to those trees would be a concern. Although he had not seen precisely where the trees were situated with regard to the proposed driveway and grading, Kellogg suggested that al crest in the driveway as an additional way of controlling the water and directing it away from this area with supplemental plantings might be a possibility. Blake Bichanich, of Blake and Associates Architects, stated that they were working with the neighbors to come up with a mutually agreeable landscaping plan. Sansevere asked why-they had not met with a couple of weeks. Broitzman indicated that he had met with a concept plan by Friday. architect to develop a plan over the past architect that day and would likely have a Mayor Peterson, once again, stated that she had "strong feelings about knowing what screening there would be, including types, kinds, sizes, etc. She found it unfair of the applicant to suggest that he would put screening on neighbor's properties to offset what he has created and was concerned about the impacts of a swale near the lot line. White questioned using the driveway as a sort of swale with an inverted crown directing water to pool along the property line and causes the existing vegetation to have wet feet. Although he believed Mr. Broitzman had made any improvements since the last meeting, • Murphy maintained that if the footprint and size I of the proposed residence was smaller the City, or neighbors, would not be faced with these issues. He believed that a house of this magnitude would be setting a new precedent or standard of scale in this neighborhood. He saw, not only the driveway PAGE 3 of 10