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• MINUTES OF THE REGULAR ORONO COUNCIL MEETING HELD OCTOBER 8, 1990 ATTENDANCE 7:00 P.M. The Council met on the above date with the following members present: Acting Mayor Callahan, Councilmembers Nettles, Goetten and Peterson. Mayor Grabek was absent. The following represented the City staff: City Administrator Bernhardson, Building & Zoning Administrator Mabusth, Public Works Director Gerhardson, Assistant Planning and Zoning Administrator Gaff ron, City Attorney Barrett, City Engineer Cook and City Recorder Vee. #1590 MINNEGASCO, INC. 530 OLD CRYSTAL BAY ROAD PUBLIC HEARING 7:02 TO 7:18 P.M. The Affidavit of Publication and Certificate of Mailing were duly noted. Tom Meyer was present representing Minnegasco. City Administrator reviewed this request for an up to 5 year conditional use permit on a piece of industrially zoned property on Old Crystal Bay Road. Minnegasco is looking to install a heat saving plant at this location. It is a fenced in area of 40 about 150' x 1501, which during the winter months will have a semi - trailer with a vaporizer located on this site. During critically cold times when their supply is low a liquified natural gas tanker will come in. The operation will be supervised by individuals during that time and once the need is passed, the tanker will be removed and just the vaporizer will remain on location. During the non - winter months the vaporizer will be removed. The Planning Commission has recommended approval with conditions regarding natural screening. Minnegasco feels because of the temporary nature that the screening will be cost prohibitive and are proposing an alternate type of false brickwork to meet the opaqeness requirement. Acting Mayor Callahan noted that the original application was also a public hearing but was for property located across the street. This public hearing is held to conform to the public hearing requirements. Goetten asked if the fencing issue had been resolved. Tom Meyer presented plans showing layout with fencing. He noted that this is a temporary use, a maximum of five years, and actually anticipating 1 to 3 years use. Distribution in this area is weak and would be used to forestall outages in extremely cold weather, below 15 degrees. The unit will sit in the middle of the property. Photos of a similar unit used in Spring Park last year were presented to Council for review. The vaporizer is mounted on a flatbed trailer and a tank truck would be pulled up in the cold weather for 3 -4 months per year. During the 1