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CITY OF ORONO <br />RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL <br />NO. b786 <br />of 7-0 that the Council grant the proposed CMP; the rezoning to RPUD Residential Planned Unit <br />Development District; grant Conditional Use Permit, grant general concept plan, and preliminary <br />plat approval subject to a number of conditions and recommendations; and <br />WHEREAS, the Orono City Council reviewed the sketch plan for the Property in <br />September 2016, and has reviewed the formal applications at its regular meeting on August 14, <br />2017; and <br />WHEREAS, the City Council hereby makes the following findings in regard to <br />this application for RPUD General Concept Plan, Preliminary Plat approval, CMP amendment, <br />Conditional Use Permit and rezoning: <br />FINDINGS <br />A. Community Management Plan Conformity, CMP Amendment <br />1. This application was reviewed as Zoning File #17-3948. <br />2. The Property is currently zoned RR -1 B PUD as part of the Stone Bay development, <br />The Property contains approximately 3.5 acres. The Stonebay Master Plan <br />suggests an office use for the property. The CMP guides the property as office. <br />3. The property has sat vacant for many years; the city recognizes that there is not a <br />market, nor is one likely, for office uses on the subject parcel. <br />4. The Metropolitan Council established density goals for the City of Orono, and the <br />city responded by carefully selecting parcels at densities that would potentially <br />allow for more affordable housing options. Metropolitan Council guidelines require <br />an overall new sewered development density of at least 3 units per acre. In order to <br />meet these goals, certain parcels within the Metropolitan Urban Service Area <br />(MUSA) were guided for densities significantly higher than 3 units/acre — to allow <br />those shoreland areas in the MUSA historically zoned and planned for low density, <br />to develop at the 1 -acre and 2 -acre lot sizes desired by the City. <br />Recent developments within the MUSA have been approved at densities lower that <br />prescribed in the CMP. <br />6. The city desires to identify additional areas appropriate for high density residential <br />within the community. The rationale for the density increase at this site was <br />Page 2 <br />