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MINUTES OF THE <br />ORONO PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING <br />Monday, May 19, 2014 <br />6:30 o’clock p.m. <br />_____________________________________________________________________________________ <br />  <br />Page 10 of 31  <br />  <br />Chair Leskinen closed the public hearing at 7:30 p.m. <br /> <br />Leskinen asked what the size of the proposed garage is. <br /> <br />Curtis indicated with the breezeway it is 48 square feet and that the garage itself is 38 square feet. <br /> <br />Leskinen stated this is a straight forward application and that there is a practical difficulty given the <br />winters in Minnesota. <br /> <br />Landgraver moved, McGrann seconded, to recommend approval of Application No. 14-3665, <br />Gladys McClendon on behalf of Orono Woodlands, Inc., 2100 Sixth Avenue North, granting of a <br />side yard setback variance to construct a garage and enclosed breezeway subject to Staff’s <br />recommendations. VOTE: Ayes 7, Nays 0. <br /> <br />4. 14-3666 LUKE KUJAWA ON BEHALF OF EOF INVESTMENTS, LLC, 1440 AND 1442 <br />SHORELINE DRIVE, REZONING, 7:32 P.M. – 8:44 P.M. <br /> <br />Luke Kujawa, Applicant, was present. <br /> <br />Gaffron stated the applicants are requesting rezoning of two parcels at 1440 and 1442 Shoreline from LR- <br />1A, single-family residential, to B-2 commercial business. Staff did advise the applicants early on in their <br />redevelopment process that a conceptual proposed site plan should be submitted in support of the <br />rezoning request. Gaffron stated the Planning Commission should define what specific elements need to <br />be addressed on the overall site. <br /> <br />Because the two properties that are zoned residential are also guided in the Comprehensive Plan for <br />residential use, the applicant will technically need to do a Comprehensive Plan Amendment, which is not <br />part of this application. Gaffron stated in his view the site plan is merely conceptual at this point and that <br />it is to generate some discussion for what would be appropriate uses for this site and the layout. <br /> <br />The applicants now own all properties that have been associated in one way or another with the marina. <br />On the marina site is an existing marina building and a parking lot next to it. The house at 1442 has been <br />there for a number of decades and at one point in time used to contain a smaller pizza place, which was <br />later converted into a bait shop. As early as the 1970s the City was looking at these two residential lots <br />for parking for the marina. At that time the properties were under single ownership and parking on the <br />two residential lots was approved by the City Council. In the 1980s, the City did a rezoning for the two <br />pieces of 1440 and 1442 east of County Road 15. Also rezoned to B-2 at that time was the small <br />lakeshore strip on Browns Bay east of 1432. <br /> <br />Gaffron stated in 1989 portions of the marina zoned B-2 were approved for a total reconstruction that <br />involved removal of all buildings and construction of the current main marina building at 1444 as well as <br />the gazebo east of County Road 15. <br /> <br />Currently the marina exists in nearly all respects as it was approved in 1989. It has gone through a <br />number of ownership changes, and for a time the residential properties were owned via a separate LLC <br />for the marina, all with one owner. At the present time all five parcels with ties to the marina use are <br />owned in common by EOF Investments, LLC, and the two southerly parcels that make up 1444 are in the <br />process of being combined per the recent approval conditions for the fuel storage facilities. <br />Item #01 - PC Agenda - 06/16/2014 <br />Aproval of Planning Commission Minutes 05/19/2014 <br />[Page 10 of 31]