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TO : Mayor Jabbour and Orono City Council Members <br /> FROM: Lyle Oman, Building Official <br /> DATE: May 4, 2000 <br /> SUBJECT: Proposed Home Occupation for 740 Orchard Park <br /> On 4-27-00 Steve Mecco applied for a home occupation licence to operate a tree service business <br /> from a property at 740 Orchard Park that he is considering buying. This property is located on the <br /> corner of Orchard Park Road and Sixth Avenue North. The property is fairly secluded from the <br /> neighbors and the business may not adversely affect them. However, I feel it would be a bad <br /> precedent to allow this use on a residential property. Over the years I have dealt with a number of <br /> these types of operations that have sprung up on residential property. The complaints we received <br /> are about noise from trucks coming and going, idling in cold weather, maintenance, tuning and <br /> running of equipment, employees coming and going, and equipment stored outside. Mr. Mecco <br /> stated he would build a pole barn to house the equipment. It would be very unfortunate if he was <br /> allowed to build a building to operate the business then be told later he could not operate from the <br /> property due to complaints. Therefore I recommend denial of the home occupation licence. <br />