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MINUTES OF THE PC Exhibit C <br /> ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING <br /> Monday, September 10,2012 <br /> 7:00 o'clock p.m. <br /> 5. #10-3491 CITY OF ORONO-HARDCOVER REGULATIONS AMENDMENT <br /> Ben Gozola stated basically three main changes have been made since the last City Council meeting. The <br /> DNR standards were discussed with staff at a Council work session. At the direction of the City Council, <br /> the City Attorney has reviewed and provided comment on the draft ordinance. Staff also incorporated <br /> some minor ordinance edits based on Council feedback and feedback by the City Attorney. <br /> The first changes are specific to the definition of hardcover. At the direction of the City Attorney,two <br /> words were removed from that definition. The first word was the word construction before the word <br /> hardcover and the second word was impervious before the word patio. Both changes were to shorten and <br /> clarify the definition. <br /> The next change was to remove some remaining hardcover exclusion language in the ordinance and that <br /> change again was for clarity. <br /> Following that change, Staff was asked to include definitions for two different terms. The first term was <br /> pervious paver and the second term was pervious surface. The City Council will be able to find language <br /> on both of those terms in the draft ordinance. Further,the City Council suggested that Staff remove a <br /> sentence within the suggested purpose section that seemed to be more related to the performance based <br /> approach, and that has been done. <br /> As it relates to the hardcover exclusion section,the City Attorney suggested Staff remove the word public <br /> before the word roads to make sure that all roads,regardless of the ownership status of those roads,would <br /> receive an exclusion if they were properly placed. <br /> Based on discussion at the last Council meeting, Staff also made an amendment to the way the ordinance <br /> would look at retaining walls. Instead of having a difference between required retaining walls and <br /> decarative retaining walls, all retaining walls would be excluded. <br /> Gozola stated the biggest change in the ordinance relates to Tier 1. It is now proposed to be regulated at a <br /> straight 25 percent rather than being split into two different zones depending on the distance from the <br /> lake. Gozola indicated it is his belief that that was a topic at the work session meeting and that the City <br /> Council should have a two-page handout that was prepared by Mr. Gaffron regarding that proposed <br /> change. <br /> In addition,the City Attorney had recommended some minor text changes to the tier assignment <br /> methodology, which has been incorporated into the draft ordinance. As it relates to Division 4, which <br /> dealt with legal nonconformities, some existing language from the City Code was eliminated as other <br /> recent code changes made that language unnecessary. <br /> Gozola stated in order to address one of the questions that were posed at the last meeting, he compiled a <br /> map to help illustrate the impact of having Step 5 within the tier methodology. Gozola indicated this <br /> particular map provides a good visualization that Step 5 is not an unreasonable expansion of the <br /> regulations that are currently in place. By filling in the gaps, it creates new regulations on 102 parcels <br /> within the community but most, if not all of those parcels, are entirely surrounded or almost entirely <br /> surrounded by parcels that are already regulated. Almost half of those parcels that are being added are in <br /> the Navarre area. Since the beginning of these discussions, people have looked at that particular area of <br /> Page 1 of 26 <br />