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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday, September 12, 2016 7:00 o'clock p.m. 17. LEVEL H HOME OCCUPATION LICENSE, 4415 FOREST LAKE LANDING (continued) Levang stated she is not sure how the City can allow this type of use in a quiet residential neighborhood and that it perhaps needs to be done in another place. Levang indicated she will be voting against it. McMillan stated she senses when the concerts are happening that there is not a problem with the noise but that the issue is getting the people to the event. McMillan indicates she lives on two dead-end streets and people have to be shuttled in for certain things. McMillan stated she understands this involves only four or five shuttle trips, but the feeling is that there are shuttle buses in the neighborhood, which gives a different feel to the neighborhood and that there is something commercial going on. McMillan stated when she looks at some of these dates, they can be an entire weekend, which can have , pretty big impact to the neighborhood since there will be 120 people going to and fro in the neighborhood for a commercial event. McMillan stated that is the issue she is struggling with. McMillan commented she is not sure if there is a compromise, but that what she sees is a lot of June and August weekends, which is pretty intense. McMillan stated she is not sure if there is a way to dial it back to the point where the neighborhood can tolerate it. Mc.%4illan stated people value their privacy, especially on private roads. Printup stated he is leaning the other way a little bit. Printup stated the traffic issue can be a bummer for people corning in and out but that it sounds like it is pretty well organized. Printup stated it is too bad the hours cannot be adjusted to the daytime. Printup stated it sounded like it was pretty well planned and prepared for but that he is just one vote. McMillan asked if the applicants would like to table their application. Line stated they are not hard and fast on 15 events and that they do have four dates booked in November but that they did not sell the other shows. Line indicated they did that under the fact that they had previously obtained a special event permit. Line stated they have been very straight forward on all of this and that the dates are not hard and fast. Line indicated the Sunday shows can go during the day. Line stated the overall goal is not to make the neighbors mad but to share Lorie's music with others. Line indicated they will abide by the Council's decision. Barnhart stated the Council could deny or table the application and that the applicants could amend their proposal based on the feedback. Walsh asked how this application came before the City Council after 15 events have already occurred. Barnhart stated a special event permit was requested in June, which goes through the clerk's office. That permit was issued for that event and the City later learned it was multiple events. Barnhart stated the application said several events but staff reviewed it as one event. Barnhart stated the clerk perhaps misread the application and that once Staff learned it was multiple events, they informed the Lines that they needed a different type of permit and Staff has been working with them since. Barnhart indicated the Lines were out of the country in July but that they have been forthright with Staff. Walsh asked who said it was okay. Page 23 of 34