10-14-1975 Council Meeting Minutes

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� � � ORONO COUNCIL MEETING HELD OCTOBER 14s 1975 Page 3 � Mr. Ron Haskovit2 and Mr. Frank Burg, representing VARIANCE FOR PERNIIT P�2r. Richard Kennedy, 2435 Scotch Pine Lane, appeared 2435 Scotch Pine Lane � before the City Council regarding a variance for a permit to fill and grade wetlands, • � It was noted by staff that the agenda item #11 contained a typographical error and that item #11 �, should read variance for a permit not conditional use permit. � Mr. Henry Muhich, Building & Zoning Administrator, i distributed a memo from the City Engineer, r��cCombs- � Knutson Associates, Inc, to t'ir. Burg, Mr, Haskovitz, and the City Council conveying an evaluation and � recommendation to fill the area in question. Mr, Burg requested a ten minute recess to study the �, engineer°s report. Acting Mayor Massengale deferred Item #11 for ten minutes and continued with the • next agenda items. After agenda items #12, #�13, & #14, i�Ir. Burg stated that the following engineer° s memo � was too general rather than being specifico � Letter from the City Engineer • "In accordance with the Council's instructions, we � have analyzed the engineering implications of granting approval to fill the subject project owned by rlra � Kennedyo As a matter of background information, you • will recall that when this subdivision was approved and construction started, the contractor was carefully � instructed that there was to be no fill whatsoever placed in the subject wetlands. Subsequent to that, � he did dispose of tree stumps, branches and earth in the marsh and was required to remove essentially � all of this material. �' Looking at the site now and trying to recollect what � it looked like at that time, it appears as though present limits of the wetlands may be somewhat � different from what they were at the start of the projecte However, I don't know if this can be t verified from any existing field information and if some filling of the wetlands has occurred' some of � it may have resulted from debris being washed in � from the adjacent area. � In evaluating the granting of a fill permit for a wetlands, several things have been considered by our +� office, This first is that the proposed scheme is very definitely in violation of the City orc�inances • relating to the preservation and protection of wetlands . and is totally in conflict with the Council's stated � policy of preserving wetlands in their natural state to serve as water containment and treatment basins. The engineer for I�2r. Kennedy has submitted data � indicating that the area of the wet].a.nds could be substantially reduced and there would still be f adequate wetlands to provide for the necessary - volume of water storage. (Continued)