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Orono Council <br />FSOMs Michael P. Gaffron, Assistant Zoning Administrator <br />DATlt May 21, 1986 <br />SOBJs Big Island - Automatic Lot Area Variances - <br />Resolutions <br />Record Lot No. 11, <br />Record Lot No. 28, <br />Record Lot No. 41, <br />Record Lot No. 36, <br />Record Lot No. 40, <br />Record Lot No. 14, <br />V. William Melin <br />J.W. Vanderhoof <br />Scriver/Burch <br />Stephen O'Gara <br />D.W. Pratt <br />D.J. Kilbane <br />List of Exhibits <br />A - Typical Documentation Packet Re-sent to 14 Non- <br />Respondents in Spring 1986 <br />B - Copies of Automatic Lot Area Variance Resolutions for <br />6 Record Lots <br />C - Listing of Status of Big Island Record Lots as of <br />Spring 1986 <br />Background <br />Please recall that in 1983 when the Council adopted Ordinance No. <br />\_ __ 246 (creating the "RS" Seasonal Recreational Zoning District), <br />Big Island property owners were given the opportunity to <br />be automatically granted lot area variances, which <br />gave them the right to build upon their substandard sized lots <br />without further Council action. Identified in Section 10.31, <br />Subdivision 6(P) were 55 Record Lots ranging in area from 0.18 to <br />4.3 acres, which were designated as SUBSTANDARD BUILDABLE RECORD <br />LOTS. <br />In. the summer of 1983, City Planner Alan Olson mailed <br />notifications of the Record Lot designations to the appropriate <br />property owners. About 2/3 of them returned the proper paperwork <br />and documentation immediately and were subsequently granted the <br />Automatic Lot Area Variances. <br />Midway through this process, Olson resigned his position with <br />Orono and consequently left much of the follow-up work undone. <br />Staff has only recently been able to free up time to review the <br />Big Island matters outstanding, and subsequently have taken the <br />following steps: <br />1. Reviewed all Big Island Record Lot files to determine <br />which substandard buiIdable lot owners did not respond to <br />the initial notification. <br />2. Based on statements by at least two of those property <br />owners that they either "never got the information" or <br />"didn't know they were supposed to return something", staff <br />revised and updated paperwork, mailed it out again to the <br />non-respondents, and stipulated a deadline of April 30, 1986 <br />in which to return the documentation required without having <br />to file a formal variance application.