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�o�o <br /> To: Chair Leskinen and Planning Commission Members <br /> lessica Loftus, City Administrator yF 1.G' <br /> G <br /> `�KESH��� <br /> From: leremy Barnhart, Community Development Director <br /> Date: April 18, 2016 <br /> Subject: #16-3824, City of Orono, <br /> Text Amendment: Subdivision Exemptions <br /> Public Hearing <br /> Application Summary: The proposed ordinance establishes a process to accept subdivision <br /> exemptions, and a process to respond to certain applications that don't meet the Zoning <br /> Ordinance. <br /> Staff Recommendation: Planning Department Staff recommends tabling of the ordinance <br /> pending public comment and further review. <br /> List of Exhibits <br /> ExhibitA. Draft Ordinance <br /> Background <br /> The consideration of boundary line adjustments and similar land actions were the 6tn <br /> highest priority item when the Planning Commission and City Council reviewed the city <br /> ordinances last fall. <br /> By definition, the following actions are exempt from the city's subdivision ordinance: <br /> (1) in which all the resulting parcels, tracts, lots or interests will be 20 acres or <br /> larger in size and 500 feet in width for residential uses and five acres or larger in <br /> size for commercial and industrial uses; <br /> (2) creating cemetery lots; <br /> (3) resulting from court orders, or the adjustment of a lot line by the <br /> relocation of a common boundary as long as each of the two resulting lots <br /> meets the requirements of chapter 78. <br /> These three situations are consistent with state law. <br /> The proposed ordinance establishes a process where staff verifies that a proposal falls <br /> within these criteria. Staff will then generate a document to be received by the County <br /> Recorder for filing. <br />