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Glenn P. Bruder July 17, 1996 Page 2 3. The Crystal Bay frontage portion of the Lakeside Marina tax parcel in question, has extremely limited uses based on its LR-1C zoning and general requirements of the zoning code. However, this portion of the property only contains about .015 acre, whereas the portion of the property on which the marina is located north of County Road 51 is aproximately 2.1 acres (see Survey excerpts attached). The Crystal Bay frontage accounts for about 1% of the area of the entire property. Considering the property as a whole, which includes the primary structures and facilities of the marina, one cannot reasonably azgue that the property has "limited" uses, because in fact it has very high use as a marina. 4. There are many instances in which the City of Orono has authorized the construction of private dock facilities in LR-1C and other lakeshore residential zones which require users to cross public thoroughfares to gain access to the dock. These generally fall into two categories: A. Single tax parcels which are intersected by a public thoroughfare (see Sketch A attached). B. Commonly-owned separate tax parcels in which the residence parcel is only separated from the dock "outlot" parcel by the public right-of-way, and which parcels would be adjacent absent the right-of-way (Sketch B). These two types of properties are not uncommon in the LR-1C, LR-1B, and LR- lA lakeshore residential zoning districts. In each case, however, the adjacency is a key factor. In the case of properties in Category A, the dock is in fact located on the same tax parcel as the residence parcel. In the case of lots in Category B, in most cases the dock outlot was created as part of a subdivision for the express intent of providing access to the residential property directly across the road from the shoreline, and in most cases the dock outlots have side boundary lines coinciding with the extension of those of the inland residential lots they serve. Orono currently has five commercial marinas, three of which own property located on both sides of a public thoroughfare. In two of those three cases, Windward Marina and Minnetonka Boat Works, both sides of the thoroughfare are zoned commercial. However, in the third case, Lakeside Marina, the south side of the thoroughfare i.e. the Crystal Bay side, is not zoned commercial. I would also note for the record that the former Crystal Bay Service gas dock which was located on the LR-1C portion of that service station property (a few