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Item #01- Special Council Meeting - 01106114 File #13-3638 & 13-3639 [Total Pages 99] NORTHWEST ASSOCIATED CONSULTANTS, INC. 4500 Oison Memorial Highway, Suite 202, Golden Valley, MIS 554.22 Telephone: 763.231.2555 Facsimile: 763.231.2501 planners@naoplannIng.com MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor McMillan and Orono City Council FROM: Stephen Grittman DATE: December 26, 2013 RE: Lakeview Golf Course — Comprehensive Plan Amendment Source Land Capital, Grant Wenkstern, et al NAC FILE: 289.06 This report supplements the previous planning reviews of the Lakeview Golf Course Comprehensive Plan Amendment, in advance of the City Council's special meeting on Monday, January 6, 2014. The purpose of that meeting will be to consider the approval or denial of the Amendment, with the expectation that the Council will direct staff to prepare a Resolution and findings of fact for the following regular meeting on January 13, 2014. This memorandum summarizes the Council options for Denial (Section A), Approval (Section B), and consideration of the Sketch Plan (Section C). As discussed below, the applicants have prepared a second alternative sketch plan for review, included with this report. In short summary, that plan is intended to be a standard 2 acre lot subdivision under the RR -1 B zoning, with a single street entrance to West Branch, private septic field area for each lot, and elimination of the previous cluster plan amenities of common open space and community building. In support of the revised sketch plan, the applicants state that they have taken a series of soil borings and percolation tests, prepared a generalized stormwater management plan, conferred with Hennepin County in relation to road design and access, conferred with the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District on stormwater, and addressed (at sketch level), the directives of the City's Conservation Design principles.