02-16-1999 Planning Commission Minutes

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ORONO PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES FOR FEBRUARY 16, 1999 • Van Zomeren presented the staff report. She stated the zoning district for this parcel is RR-1 B which requires two acres of dry buildable land for each residence. The lot area is 42.6 acres in total,with 20.5 dry acres and 23.1 wet acres. The site plan shows seven lots. The lots meet the two-acre minimum with the exception of lot 4. The dry acres are 1.8. A NURP pond will be located on lot 4. Access to lot 1 would be provided through King Street. The rest of the lots would be served by a cul- de-sac coming off from Brown Road. Lot 2 would be served by an outlot off from the cul-de-sac. Lot 2 would be considered a through-lot. She said the proposed plan shows a primary and secondary septic site for each proposed lot. The Park Dedication Fee has not been determined since this is a sketch plan. The City would require flowage and conservation easements over the wetlands and drainage and utility easements along the lot lines. The private road for the cul-de-sac would need to be designed and maintained according to City standards. She said the stormwater management issues have gone to the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District. She requested that the Planning Commission discuss the following issues: 1. Proposed access for Lot 1 via King Street; 2. Lot 2 access and status as through lot; 3. Lot 4 lot area at 1.8 acres; and 4. Tax-forfeited "exception" parcel. White asked if the tax forfeited parcel would increase the size of lot 4. Van Zomeren stated it would not increase the dry buildable area because the tax forfeited parcel is wet. Mabusth asked if a wetland delineation had been completed. Van Zomeren said yes. Steve Bohl stated his original proposal was for six lots with a cul-de-sac coming off from Willow Drive. III At that time, he did not have a contract to purchase the property located at 1045 Brown Road and the lots would have all exceeded the minimum 2.0 acre requirement. He said that Dave Zetterstrom of Hennepin County looked at the proposed access off from Brown Road. He said Zetterstrom felt that the access onto Brown Road would be a safe and better situation than adding additional traffic to Willow Drive. Zetterstrom also looked at the King Street access for lot 1 which currently serves one property, 775 Brown Road. He said Zetterstrom commented that this would be a safe entrance for both properties. Bohl talked about the ponding issue on lot 4. Mabusth asked if the NURP pond could be moved further north. Bohl said it could probably move to lot 3. He said the neighbor to the southeast corner of the property has asked about the possibility of Bohl selling a small portion of the property to the neighbor for an extension of their lot. If Bohl did not sell them that portion of the property and moved the lot lines, it would be possible to meet the two-acre minimum for lot 4. White asked about the topography of the site. Bohl said the perimeter of the southerly portion is pasture land. The exception piece on the west and the southeast portion are wooded. The northerly portion of the property is dense woods except for the wetland. White asked the purpose of the outlot attached to the cul-de-sac. Bohl said the outlot is the driveway access for lot 2. Van Zomeren said she wanted to point out the outlot and find out if that was acceptable rather than having lot 2 on the cul-de-sac. She said lot 2 is a through lot because it could have access on Willow. • Page 13