03-21-2011 Planning Commission Packet

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� PC Exhibit A ` MINUTES OF THE � 0 ORONO PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING � Tuesday, February 22,2011 � � 6:30 o'clock p.m. � � 3. #11-3500 CITY OF ORONO,AMEND CITY CODE SECTION 78-666,BOAT CLUB CONDITIONAL USE PERNIIT,7:45 P.M.—8:50 P.M. Gaffron stated Staff is proposing to add a numerical parking requirement to the B-2 standards. Currently The B-2 standards do not specify a numerical parking requirement for boat clubs. Orono has five commercial marinas on Lake Minnetonka. All are zoned B-2 Lakeshore Business District. They comprise approximately 0.7 mile or 2 percent of Orono's 40.4 miles of Lake Minnetonka shoreline. The marinas share a number of characteristics that make them unique as compared to most other � lakeshore uses. Orono's B-2 District has allowed boat clubs as a conditional use since 1995. Although not strictly defined in the Code, our working definition of a boat club goes back to the discussions that resulted in the 1995 revisions of the B-2 District ordinances. At its simplest, a boat club is a time-share situation in which multiple persons have the right to share in the use of a single boat. This may have a number of permutations, such as having the right to share in the use of a variety of different boats. The critical factor is the potential for a given boat to be used on many more occasions in a given time period as compared to a boat used only by its owner. Because of the potential for boat clubs to create more intensive use of a marina site,boat clubs are a conditional use within the B-2 District and cannot be operated unless a conditional use permit is obta.ined. � CUPs are issued to the owner of the property,not to a lessee or tenant,because the CUP becomes a property right. Application.for a boat club CUP must be made by the property owner,not merely by the tenant. Any CUP approved will be granted to the owner and tied to the properly,with conditions that would apply to any boat club operator at the site. The B-2 District Standards of the zoning code do not distinguish between the property owner and lessees • in terms of operation requirements. The property owner is responsible for the property remaining in compliance with the code regardless of the leases it may choose to enter into with tenants. As a conditional use,under current code the boat club use will only be allowed if it can be shown by the property owner that adequate parking is available on the site to accommodate that business operation in addition to all other approved operations on the site. The premise behind this ordinance requirement is that a time-share boat club operation has the potential to create a higher level of use than a standard . single-user/single-owner situation;for instance,because of the potential for overlapping parking needs of back-to-back users. • The basic parking requirement of six stalls for each 10 slips assumes no more than 60 percent of boats being used at a given time,.one car per boat. This standard has been in effect since creation of the B-2 � District when the average pleasure boat stored at Orono's marinas was significantly smaller than today. With today's variety of large boats holding many passengers,there is a potential for inadequate parking at busy times, if passengers for a single boat arrive in separate vehicles: This may be exacerbated by a boat club if back-to-back uses result in the need for parking overlap,or if boat club members and their guests arrive in multiple vehicles. Because our marinas are all on busy county roads,nearby street parking is extremely limited and is to be avoided. Page 10 .