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O CITY of ORONO RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL NO. b 45 kESH0 WHEREAS, the City Council hereby makes the following findings with regards to this application: FINDINGS 1. This application was reviewed as Zoning File#13-3631. 2. The Property is zoned LR-1C Single Family Lakeshore Residential District, which normally requires a minimum lot area of 0.5 acres and minimum lot width of 100' The Property is 4.89 acres in area, of which 0.83 acre is wetland and 4.06 acres is non-wetland area. 3. The Property is guided in the 2008-2030 Orono Community Management Plan (CMP) for Low-Medium Density Residential Use at a density of up to 2-3 units per acre. The proposed layout contains 6 lots on 3.74 dry acres (net of wetland and roadway dedication for Northern Avenue) for an overall net density of 1.6 units per acre. 4. The Property site is somewhat bowl-shaped and contains a 0.83-acre wetland at its center. The high point at the southwest comer of the site drops approximately 24 feet to the wetland, with slopes in the general range of 5-15%. There are two existing houses and two detached garages plus a smaller outbuilding all located in the southwest corner of the Property, and all of which would be removed as a result of the subdivision. There is one existing driveway onto Northern Avenue. 5. The Conservation Design Report by Arrowhead Environmental Consulting provides this overview of the natural site characteristics: "The existing landscape of the site consists of a single-family home with a garage in the southwest portion of the site, a shallow marsh wetland in the center of the property, and hardwood forest throughout the site. The trees consist mostly of black walnut (Juglans nigra), sugar maple (Acer saccharum), red oak (Quercus rubra), basswood (Tilia americana), green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica), and boxelder (Acer negunda). A dense layer of common buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica)was present throughout most of the forested area. Page 2 of 14