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Evelyn M. Turner From: Evelyn M. Turner Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 4:11 PM To: 'Steve Clinton' Subject: Griffin Residence - 515 Ferndale Road N -Zoning Review Steve: If the house does not have to be relocated to achieve the 50' impervious surface setback from the wetland, the zoning review turned up only two issues: 1�°� Buildings in Orono are limited to two stories plus a defined half story. For a v� � basement to not be considered a story it must be no more than six feet from the �fP�'� proposed first floor elevation to existing grade for at least 50 percent of the perimeter of the basement. As proposed the basement would not be considered a story. �� > However, the proposed future addition shown on the survey could not be built as � existing grade is more than six feet below the �rst floor elevation for its entire perimeter and the basement would then have to be counted as a story. (This would be true even if the addition only had a basement and the first story.) Driveways are limited to 20 feet wide where they cross the property line and 30 feet wide where they meet the pavement of the road. The northwest part of property is subject to hardcover regulations because it is within 1,000 feet of Lydiard Lake and within the drainage area of that lake. (The easterly part of the property may be within 1,000 feet of Hadley Lake but is not within its drainage area so is not subject to hardcover regulations.) The hardcover zone(s) should be shown on the survey and hardcover calculations prepared. (It appears this area will be allowed 35% hardcover so it is unlikely to be an issue.) Once the wetland has been delineated and the delineation accepted by the MCWD it too must be added to the survey. The 50 foot wetland buffer and the 20 foot building setback from the buffer must also be shown. See the "construction near a wetland" information sheet for more information. It can be found at: http://www.ci.orono.mn.us/information sheets.htm Mark Gronberg is familiar with hardcover and wetland buffers. Be sure to remind him that separate legal descriptions are required for the wetland and for the buffer. This is about all we can do until we receive the updated survey. It will then be sent to the City Engineer for review, which takes about a week. Then the building code review will be done. Evelyn Turner i