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� <br /> To: Chair Kang and Planning Commission Members <br /> From: Evelyn Turner, City Planner <br /> Date: June 21, 2010 <br /> Subject: 10-3454 City of Orono - Amendments to Orono Code Chapter 78 Article IV <br /> ' Relating to Conditional Uses in residential zoning districts <br /> -Public Hearing <br /> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <br /> . � . <br /> Application Summa�y: This zoning code text amendment would revise conditional uses <br /> in the residential zoning districts. <br /> Staff Recommendation: Planning De artment Staff recommends a roval. <br /> List of Eghibits <br /> A. Table of existing and proposed conditional uses in the residential zoning district. <br /> Background <br /> The Commission has reviewed the conditional uses allowed in the residential zoning districts <br /> and found that some of the uses are out of date and difficult to understand, some rieed <br /> - additional controls, some are more appropriate as accessory uses and some are no longer <br /> appropriate at all. <br /> � <br /> . Discussion <br /> No use currently requiring a conditional use permit would become a permitted use. Several <br /> would become accessory uses in the Rural Residential district. Two uses,Hospitals and <br /> Nursing Homes and Private Libraries,which are allowed only in the RR-1B district, would <br /> be removed from the residential districts entirely. A number of farm,horse and animal uses <br /> would be removed from the Residential district as being incompatible with the purpose and <br /> � intent of the district. No existing use is expected to become non-conforming because of these <br /> particular changes. <br /> The major change is to restxict public barns and stables,riding academies, stock farms, and <br /> : commercial greenhouses to the Rural Residential zoning districts and to restrict gun clubs <br /> and outdoor recreational clubs to the RR-lA district. They are currently allowed as <br /> conditional uses in all residential districts. The Commission judged them to be incompatible <br /> with the intents and purposes of the Residential and Lakeshore Residential zoning districts. <br /> The gun club on Sixth Avenue North would become non-conforming but could continue to <br /> operate as is indefinitely. No other existing use is expected to become non-conforming <br /> because of these particular changes. <br /> " Apiaries,which are allowed as conditional uses in a11 residential zoning districts, are divided <br /> into professional beekeeping operations,beekeeping accessory to a Crop Fann, and hobby <br /> beekeeping. Professional beekeeping operations are restxicted to the Rural Residential <br /> Districts. Hobby beekeeping at a maximum density of one hive per half acre is allowed as a <br /> conditional use in the Residential and Lakeshore Residential Districts and as an accessory <br />