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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday, October 27, 2014 7:00 o’clock p.m. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Page 10 of 32 (10. #14-3689 LAKESHORE HOLDINGS, LLC – 2490 CARMAN STREET – VARIANCE – RESOLUTION NO. 6458, Continued) Levang moved, Printup seconded, to adopt RESOLUTION NO. 6458, a Resolution Granting Variances from Orono Municipal Code Sections 78-330, for the property located at 2490 Carman Street, with Paragraph No. 5, Page 3, being amended to read as follows: “The applicant understands and is hereby put on notice that the City is not required to screen the fire lane from adjacent properties. The City may institute measures to development approvals or other means to preserve landscaping and regulate or remove encroachments which have the potential to interfere with direct access by the public.” VOTE: Ayes 3, Nays 0. 9. #14-3691 SOURCE LAND CAPITAL, 405 NORTH ARM DRIVE – PRELIMINARY PLAT Jeffrey Majkrzak, Source Land Capital, was present. Steve Grittman, Consulting City Planner, stated before the City Council tonight is the preliminary plat application for the Lakeview Golf Course and it is essentially the same information that was presented to the Planning Commission last Monday. Grittman stated as it relates to the status of the project, the Comprehensive Plan Amendment, which started last fall and was approved by the City Council in January, was initially on the Metropolitan Council agenda for May of 2014. During that period of time, a determination was made to proceed with an Environmental assessment Worksheet for the project and the City subsequently requested that the Metropolitan Council table action until completion of the EAW process. In September of 2014, the City Council made a negative declaration on the Environmental Assessment finding no potential for significant environmental impacts and further finding that no Environmental Impact Statement was required. The Comprehensive Plan Amendment is currently scheduled for Monday, November 3, 2014. The Planning Commission held public hearings in September and October on the preliminary plat and voted 7 to 0 to recommend approval of the preliminary plat subject to the recommendations contained with the staff report. The Planning Commission also recommended the developer to be given flexibility with regard to the location of required boulevard trees and that the proposed park outlot parcel presented as a “privately owned public space” be included in the plat. The gross acreage of the parcel is approximately 148 acres, with some eight or nine acres of that area being platted as outlots to accommodate the private streets. As a result, the site ends up with approximately 128 acres of lot area in the plat. The applicant is showing 46 single-family residential lots. Two outlots would be reserved for other uses. One outlot along County Road 19 and would at some point in the future be platted as a single-family lot that would not technically be part of the Lakeview development. There is also an outlot along North Arm that is being considered for a park consisting of approximately 4.5 acres. That outlot was originally shown on the concept plans as a potential development lot, but if the preliminary plat is approved tonight, it would converted to a park.