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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING Tuesday, May 26, 2015 7:00 o’clock p.m. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Page 3 of 22 7. #15-3723 SOURCE LAND CAPITAL – LAKEVIEW PROPERTY – 405 NORTH ARM DRIVE – FINAL PLAT APPLICATION – 2ND PRELIMINARY REVIEW Gaffron stated Source Land Capital is in preparation for their final plat application and approval process, which is expected to be finalized by the Council’s June 8 meeting. Gaffron noted the City Council initially reviewed the final plat submittals at their March 23 meeting. Since then the applicants have been working with Staff, City Engineer, and MCWD to finalize remaining details in order to gain final plat approval. Gaffron indicated a few new items since the March meeting have been included in the packet as well as updated plat drawings and engineering plans. Staff’s memo and attachments have been provided for Council review and comment in anticipation of final plat approval. Prairie Restorations has provided a written plan pursuant to the Conservation Design requirements for establishment and maintenance of the 60-plus acres of the site that will be under a conservation easement and/or wetland easements. The plan addresses woodland management, upland grass areas, wetlands, ponds, and stream buffers, and septic mound and alternate site management. In addition, seed mixes are specified as well as a schedule for establishment and maintenance of the vegetation in the protected areas. As it relates to the park outlot, there is a 4.5 acre parcel between North Arm Drive and the large pond on the site that is being platted as an outlot for privately-owned public space purposes. The Applicants have submitted a set of parameters the applicants and the Citizens for Lakeview Preservation have agreed upon. The space will be maintained by the Lakeview Homeowners Association and its improvements will be constructed by the developer. The applicants have also submitted an updated draft Declaration of Covenants, Conditions, Restrictions, and Easements. The City will be granted specific easements and covenants regarding the private road, the wetlands, and the conservation area in separate documents not subject to potential future amendment by the homeowners association. The documents guarantee the permanence of the various provisions. Gaffron stated in the initial development plans, stormwater management was primarily being handled by establishment and maintenance of the conservation areas in natural vegetation to act as a filtration system, with no NURP ponding proposed. The plants reviewed by the Council in March included four bio- filtration basins or dry ponding areas which are clustered around the area where the outlet to the large existing pond will flow under the main road through culverts. Since then the MCWD has required the developers to incorporate additional such basins, for a total of 16, that will be scattered throughout the development area at locations where runoff from the new streets can be captured and held for infiltration. There is a question on whether the low area in the northwest area of the property has been a wetland in the past and whether it would be restored. When the golf course was built, that area was drained with an underground tile system and formal restoration of this area is not proposed. The applicants are proposing at this time to remove the drain tile and let the area restore itself naturally. The Watershed District is in approval of this plan. The applicants have been working closely with the Watershed District regarding stormwater management and the MCWD’s final approval is expected to be granted on May 28, which is Thursday of this week. In addition, the MPCA has approved the stormwater pollution prevention plan permit and the EAS permit for the site. Item #03 - CC Agenda - 06/08/2015 Approval of Council Minutes 05/26/15 [Page 3 of 22]