03/21/2011 Planning Commission Minutes

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� MINUTES OF THE ORONO PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Monday,March 21,2011 6:30 o'clock p.m. NEW BUSINESS 4. #11-3501 LUKE KUJAWA ON BEHALF OF MG KAMINSKI, 1444 SHORELINE DRIVE,YOUR BOAT CLUB,LLCBROWNS BAY,LLC, CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT,6:35 PM.—7:48 P.M. Luke Kujawa,Applicant,was present. Gaffron stated boat clubs are a conditional use in the B-2 District. The applicant is requesting a conditional use pernut to allow the operation of a boat club from the marina property located at 1444 Shoreline Drive. Brown's Bay,LLC, currently operates a slip rental operation at the site. Marine Max, as a tenant of Brown's Bay,LLC,has operated a boat sales business at the site within the past two years, although the future of that operation is unlrnown. Your Boat Club has indicated it does not require retail space for its operation but may lease space in the adjacent residentially zoned building at 1440 Shoreline Drive for residential purposes. The current marina operation without the boat club use is slightly short on required parking as calculated by Staff,based on an estimate of four employees parking on site. A portion of the parking in on property not owned in common with the marina. Staff recommends the conditional use pernut only be approved if it contains some numerical standards by which compliance with the requirement for adequate parking can be measured and if the proposed use can be shown to meet those standards. The conditional use permit should be approved only upon resolution of the separate ownership issue via legal combination,rezoning,parking easement, or some other means acceptable to the City Attorney. The conditional use permit should be approved only upon resolution of the separate ownership issue via legal combination,rezoning,parking easement, or some other means acceptable to the City Attorney. Gaffron stated the only standard for boat club CUPS within the.zoning code is"demonstration that adequate parking is available on the parking." The pertinent B-2 parking standards required that off-street parking facilities for a marina operation be sufficient to eliminate any traffic or parking congestion likely to be caused by the business conducted. The parking areas o not need to be paved but must be provided with appropriate storm water runoff quality/quantity controls. When it was completely renovated in 1990,this marina had 18 slips on the water. The prior owner has since reduced the number of slips to 98. In terms of numerical parking requirements, existing code standards in Section 78-668 pertinent to this marina site include: 1. Six parking spaces shall be provided for each ten boat slips on water or on land. Provision of six parking stalls per each 10 slips equals 58.8 stalls. 2. At least eight off-street parlcing 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 Page 2