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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday, May 12, 2014 7:00 o’clock p.m. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Page 3 of 16 (3. ANNUAL PUBLIC HEARING FOR NPDES PHASE II STORM WATER PERMIT, Continued) Struve stated not to his knowledge and noted the City’s stormwater system is fairly limited compared to other cities. The City Council took no formal action on this item. LMCD REPORT – ANDREW McDERMOTT, REPRESENTATIVE None PLANNING COMMISSION COMMENTS – KEVIN LANDGRAVER, REPRESENTATIVE Landgraver noted the joint session with the City Council and Planning Commission occurred last week and that it was a productive meeting. Landgraver indicated he would be available for questions. PUBLIC COMMENTS None PLANNING DEPARTMENT REPORT 4. NEW JOINT USE DOCK LICENSE – PIRATES COVE (850-860 WINDJAMMER LANE) Gaffron stated this is a request for a new joint use dock license and that typically the City only receives renewals. The dock is proposed to be located on either side of the shared lot line between 850 and 860 Windjammer Lane and will serve four off-lake lots within the Pirates Cove subdivision. Gaffron displayed the existing and proposed dock layouts for the area. Gaffron noted the inland four lots have easements on either side of the lot lines between two riparian lots. In the past they have had a joint dock situation that has not risen to the level of being obvious to Staff and a license was never applied for. Gaffron stated the dock situation likely existed since the 1960s to some degree. Gaffron stated there are two potential dock layouts to serve one slip for each of the off-lake lots. One dock has a side opening and the other opens to the lake. The second dock option meets the 100-foot limit that the LMCD would place on the dock system. Gaffron stated the City began regulating joint use docks in 1963. The original plat layout was created in 1965 and showed two outlots. Neither of those outlots was ever created. A few years later an easement was created between Lots 6 and 7. Lot 6 had a 10-foot walking easement for the off-lake lots that widens out to 20 feet and the easement for Lot 7 also widens out to 20 feet. Staff believes the easement situation was created in 1967, two years after the plat, and was long before the City required any approvals for granting easements to the lakeshore. In 1971, a separate easement was granted that changed the easement for Lot 6 so it was only 10 feet wide at the lake. Gaffron noted that easement is still in effect as well as the easement that granted the 20 feet.