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• MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday, April 11, 2011 7:00 o'clock p.m. (6. #11 -3501 YOUR BOAT CLUB, LLC, 1444 SHORELINE DRIVE, Continued) 2. At least eight off - street parking spaces, plus one additional space for each 800 square feet of floor area over 1,000 feet, including warehousing, and all outside sales and storage areas related to the sales and service functions. 3. Employee parking spaces shall be in addition to the parking spaces required in subsections 1 -7 of this section. The number of employee parking spaces shall be designated on an official parking plan to be kept on file with the City. 4. Where these minimum parking requirements prove to be inadequate for a given use, additional parking may be required in order to continue that use. Gaffron stated under the City's current code, 70 stalls would be required. In the past the City has not given any credit for the triangular area stalls even though they have been informally used for parking for many years. With the triangular area being included, there would be 81 stalls. Rahn asked whether the City has made any arrangement for a more aggressive use by the boat club and whether the parking is based on the six stalls per ten slips. Gaffron indicated it is. Rahn stated since the City is not aware of how many boat club slips are being proposed, he has an issue with that. Rahn stated if the Council came up with a number that is greater than one rather than the .6 and then the boat club took up 50 percent of the marina boat slips, the parking would be inadequate. Rahn questioned how this application could be moved forward without knowing that information. Gaffron stated the Planning Commission struggled with that issue and in the end came to the conclusion that they should deal with those slips as if they were part of the marina. It is Staff's perspective that there is a potential for higher use of a given boat club boat as compared to a single owner of a boat. The applicant has made arguments that they have better control of the parking on the site when it is a boat club and have also argued that rental slips are not purely rental and that there are many permutations of boat use, such as fractional use and friends and neighbors using another person's boat. Gaffron stated that the original approvals for redevelopment of this site in 1989 required establishment of rock beds at the lakeward end of the two main parking areas for trapping sediment and debris from the site. These fixtures are still in place but are in poor condition and need to be cleaned out and rebuilt to continue to be effective. In addition, one parking stall near the main building entrance was required to be established for handicap use. Signage and/or markings formerly in place are now missing. The handicap stall needs to be re- established in the paved parking area. Signage for the various uses will continue to be limited to that allowed by City Code for a commercial site. Staff finds that while the applicant has met the Planning Commission's goal for sufficient parking on the property based on the general marina parking requirements, Council should consider whether there is a • need for separate objective parking standards for "boat clubs" as a conditional use. The Council should also consider whether it may be of benefit to establish a limitation on how many or what percentage of slips can be devoted to boat club use. Without such limits, the conditional use permit provides the Page 7 of 30