03-21-2011 Planning Commission Packet

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t #11-3500 Boat Clubs March 17,2011 Page 3 (1) Parking facilities on the site shall be managed so as to eliminate traffic or parking congestion, eliminate illegal on-street parking, and avoid pedestrian tr�c through neighboring property. ' (2)Boat engine testing and charging shall be limited to the hours 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (3) Retail sales and service shall be limited to the hours 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. except as • necessary to accommodate normal fishing activity or private use of premises-stored boats. (4) The site shall be kept neat and orderly, and free of garbage. (5) On-land storage of boats shall be managed so as to eliminate any view obstructions for traffic entering and leaving the site. (6) Parking and on-land storage of boats, trailers, materials and equipment shall be limited to those locations shown on an approved site operation plan, which plan shall be submitted or updated as part of the annual license application. Such site operation plan shall also indicate seasonally variable uses. (7)Lights shall be shielded from the road,the lake and adjacent properties. These standards were established in the City's marina licensing ordinance in 1993, iwo yeaxs prior to the B-2 District code revisions that made Boat Clubs a conditional use. Boat clubs were not addressed in the B-2 District prior to 1995. When boat clubs became a eonditional use, rather than esta.blishing a separate numerical standard for boat club parking requirements, the City chose to rely on Operational Standard (1) for parking management, but gave Council wide discretion by including as the only performance standard, "Applicant shall demonstrate that adequate parking is available on the site". Staff would suggest that the City's regulatory objective with boat clubs today is most clearly sta.ted by Operational Standard(1). Is There a Problem? The basis for raising this issue again in 2011 is simply that boat clubs appeax to be on the rise. There is no documentation that the one boat club operated in Orono since 1995 or earlier has caused any issues related to parking. The same concerns noted by the Planning Commission in 1993-94 about more intense use of a given boat under a boat club scenario, are the driving force behind this review of the B-2 standards for boat clubs (see comments in the December 1993 PC Minutes, Exhibit A-1 of 2-14-11 memo). Staff is aware of anecdotal evidence of boat club paxking issues at one other site on Lake Minnetonka not in Orono. It would be fa.ir to characterize those issues as a function of site operations management rather than purely inherent to the boat club use.