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<br /> <br /> <br />To: Chair Thiesse and Planning Commission Members <br /> Jessica Loftus, City Administrator <br /> <br />From: Jeremy Barnhart, Community Development Director <br /> <br />Date: May 16, 2016 <br /> <br />Subject: #16-3824, City of Orono, <br />Text Amendment: Subdivision Exception <br />Public Hearing <br /> <br /> <br />List of Exhibits <br />Exhibit A. Draft Ordinance <br />Exhibit B. State Statute <br />Exhibit C. City Code <br /> <br />Background <br />The consideration of boundary line adjustments and similar land actions were the 6th <br />highest priority item when the Planning Commission and City Council reviewed the city <br />ordinances last fall. <br /> <br />By definition, the following actions are excepted as a subdivision in City Code and State <br />Statute: <br />City Code, Section 82-2 Definitions: Subdivision means the separation of an area, parcel <br />or tract of land under single ownership into two or more parcels, tracts, lots or long-term <br />leasehold interests, where the creation of the leasehold interest necessitates the creation <br />of streets, roads or alleys, for residential, commercial, industrial or other use or any <br />combination of such uses, except those separations: <br />(1) In which all the resulting parcels, tracts, lots or interests will be 20 acres or <br />larger in size and 500 feet in width for residential uses and five acres or larger in <br />size for commercial and industrial uses. <br />(2) Creating cemetery lots. <br />Application Summary: The proposed ordinance establishes a process to accept subdivision <br />exceptions, and a process to respond to certain applications that don’t meet the Zoning <br />Ordinance. <br />Staff Recommendation: Planning Department Staff recommends approval of the ordinance as <br />drafted. <br />Council <br />Exhibit B