02-22-2011 Planning Commission Packet

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: .. �- � �G;� ,�-2 � � -�- � � � iVIINUT'ES OF T'HE ORONO PI.ANNING COMIVIISSION WORS SESSION � � ... WED�IESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1994 � Brown noted he had been involved in trail planning in Carver County, and his experience with : landowners had been that they generally have no problem with snowmobiles as long as they "stay out of my yard". � � � Schroeder moved'the discussion along to the conditional use list, leaving cross country skung and snowmobile sales/rentallservice/lake operations base for further discussion later. � Schroeder noted that "transient boat launching" means a marina would essentially act as a pubiic access ramp. After brief discussion, Plannin? Commission agreed that transient boat launchi.ng �: was a reasonable conditional use as along as parking is addressed, and ultimately might reduce - car-trailer parking on the street. � Regarding boat clubs, Schroeder defined them as "multiple persons shari.ng in the use of a sin�le boat", resulting in.more hours of usage for a single boat as compared to the normal sin�le owner situation. Rowlette indicated her fam.ily doesn't boat on weekends due to overcrowding of the � lake. Richie Anderson suggested that 6-8 individual members was typical per boat in a boat club and that the boat club concept would not inc�ease boat densiry on the lake given that the 8 users have only a single boat, whereas 8 individual boats being used by 8 owners would certainly � increase density. Mabusth questioned the parking needs for boat clubs. Rowlette indicated the concept would be a problem if for i.nstance, every single slip at a marina was devoted to boat � club use, which would potentially yield every one of the slipped boats being used all the time. , Hilbelink suggested that a boat club is no different than a rental boat situatioII in terms of a.moun[ of usage per boat. Schroeder made the point that under the normal structure, 100 boats � could be used individualiy by 100 families, but under a boat club striicture, those I00 boats __ could be used by 600 families, and the relative amount of usage of those 100 boats would increase substantially. Pazking would not necessarily be an issue, because not all 600 fam�lies � would be there at once. Regarding on-demand launch of customer's boat stored on site, Gaffron noted tha.t this could be � accomplished by dry stack, or by boats sitting on trailers outside. The theory is that the -- customer would call ahead, telli.ng the marina to have their boat i.n the water and ready to go in an hour. Rowlette noted this was quite prevalent in Florida and other azeas, but not as common � yet in Orono. She also suggested she would rather see such storage inside buildings rather than outside. Gaffron noted that while Orono has historically only allowed North Shore Drive Marina the use of 20 of i'ts 72 dry stack spaces for boats for lake use, the LMCD licenses all � 72 as lake use slips. The fallacy is that LMCD doesn't coun.t boats stored on trailers for lake --- use in their licensing count. � Schroeder suggested that the Planning Commission may at some point address the boat density issue, and needs to be thi.nking about standards a.nd regulations for parl�ng at marinas. � . 7 . � � � .