driveway issue - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

. � ��s 2 5� �a a� S� RE��,� October 20,2015 0(�'� � �zo�5 Mike Gaffron,City Planner CITy OF ORONO Christine Mattsan,Planning Assistant Please find enclosed copies of communication with 2530 Fox Street property owners and agents as regards their interest in relocating the existing,longstanding driveway servicing properties of 2530, 2550,and 2580 Fox Street. Records show that this driveway preceded the su.bdivision creating 2530 and its buildable lot,and was improved to service three homes. Records will show there is an existing easement for this driveway as welf as a maintenance agreement,of which 2530 is currently in violation for not having contributed to specified winter service and ongoing drive mairrtenance. The property owners of 2530 have requested consideration of an alternate drive for 2550 and 2580, presumably to then dissolve the valid driveway easement currently in place. This communication includes written notice of our disagreement witM and disinterest in further considering a potentia!driveway relocation. We have included from 2530 an engineering rendering of a proposed new drive,which would require a portion of our properties for this unapproved use. To be clear,the property owners of 2550 and 2580 explicitly and categorically reject any proposai to relocate the existing drive allowing access to our properties. Somewhat separate but related,we also have significant concerns given recent spray-paint markings (indicating likely removal)of at ieast two mature, heatthy-iooking trees in the vicinity of#he proposed drive close to Fox Street given Orono city concerns in maintaining and preserving existing mature trees and that these trees are likely subjed to existing watershed regulations. It is our hope that this notice wili inform the city of Orono and potentially interested parties/home- buyers in ou�position o�the alternate driveway proposed by owners of 2530 Fox Street. Sincerely, Jamin &Maria Marks 1ay&Christine Malmquist