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#11-3501 YourBoatClub LLC <br /> Apri17,20ll - <br /> Page 2 . <br /> establish a limitation on how many or what percentage of slips can be de�oted to boat club use. <br /> Without such limits, the conditional use permit provides the property owner a permanent right to <br /> operate a boat club with no objective basis to later `rein it in' should the use become a problem <br /> in the future: Summary of recommended approval conditions: <br /> 1) Consider establishing numerical limits on boat club operation. <br /> � 2) Incorporate specific items of applicant's stated operational procedures as conditions of <br /> approval. <br /> 3) Subject to City acceptance of easement to resolve separate ownership issue. <br /> Application Background � <br /> This request for a boat club CUP rests on the single code requirement established far that <br /> . conditional use in Section 78-666: "(1) Boat clubs (time share). The applicant shall <br /> demonstrate that adequate parking is available'on the site." However, there is no established <br /> incremental numerical parking requirement for the boat club use. This provides the City with <br /> fairly wide latitude in determining whether adequate parking is available for the use, while <br /> providing little direction as to how that is determined. , , <br /> The property at 1444 Shoreline Drive has been operated as a commercial marina for many <br /> decades. The property has undergone a number of significant changes over time, the most <br /> significant being a complete redevelopment of the site approved in 1989. In that approval the <br /> City acknowledged a parking plan that made use of 26 parking stalls located on the two <br /> residentially-zoned properties at 1440-1442 Shoreline Drive that were owned by the then marina <br /> owner. These 26 stalls contributed to the 47 stalls available within the commercial property, <br /> resulting in a total of 73 available stalls sanctioned by the City. A 4-stall variance was granted, <br /> as the sta11 requirement was calculated at 77 stalls, based on 118 slips, a retaiUservice operation, <br /> and no credit for occasional parking use of the triangular"temporary storage" area east of CR15. <br /> The number of slips was later reduced to 98 by a prior owner during a reconfiguration of the <br /> � docks. . <br /> The current request for a boat club CUP has raised a number of red flags for staff related to the <br /> variety and level of uses this site can be expected to accommodate. The primary issues relate to <br /> the parking situation; pedestria.n safety and traffic congestion on CR15; fragmented ownership <br /> and zoning of the site; and having inultiple comme'rcial tenants operating at the site. It should be <br /> noted here that Browns Bay LLC as owner of the property only rents out slips and does not ' � <br /> , office at the site. MarineMax is a retail boat sales/service tenant of the site, leasing the main <br /> building and having the rights to the sole use of six slips for sales, display and service use, i.e. <br /> they will not be rented out. YourBoatClub will be a second tenant of the site, and indicates they . <br /> do not require an on-site office to operate; however, they intend to lease space in the adjacent <br /> residentially-zoned building at 1440 Shoreline Drive for residential purposes. To' staff's <br /> knowledge it has not been common to have multiple business tenants at Orono marinas, although <br /> this is not uncommon in most other commercial settings. - <br />