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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday, February 8, 2021 6:03 p.m. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Page 23 of 26 19. LA20-000048 - TIMOTHY WHITTEN O/B/O I. JACOBS/A. JACOBS REVOCABLE TRUST, 1700 SHORELINE DRIVE, PRELIMINARY PLAT - RESOLUTION – Continued Crosby continued saying that is not what the Council is up here for, although he wishes that they could. Then everybody who is a builder would be pissed off and the homeowners would love it. Johnson thinks what they have satisfied so far is that the 5 lots they are proposing meet code and that is it. So the question just becomes, what is a reasonable condition to put on the egress and ingress. Walsh said they cannot make Hennepin County do anything, which is part of the City’s problem because it is not the City’s road. The County has already said the only requirement from them is the turn lane. Crosby stated the City Council can say the Applicant must have the west bound turn lane in. In Mattick’s opinion, yes. Walsh said yes, because that is something the County has recommended, so the condition is following that recommendation. In looking at the Staff recommendation with all the things, the resolution approval has all the following conditions A, B, C, D, E, and F. All City Engineering comments addressed to their satisfaction, on Exhibit F, get the Watershed District approval, Hennepin County approval of the road access and the intersection. All the City Staff comments on Exhibit H and the combination of all the lots when they do combine them and that would have to be followed through. Then there are the tree areas that they showed on Exhibit E with the 30 foot widths on the east and the west. He said it’s got all that stuff, it has everything so far with all the little strings that tie it up to be sure that it follows all the protocols. Walsh said they want to get more than what they’ve already got from Hennepin County just to make sure that this is not something that is either required or that they would even consider; let alone if there is even room to do it. That gives two weeks before the resolution on February 22, 2021. Crosby asked to put the plat on-screen. He asked where the caretaker property on the Burwell property is in relation right now. Barnhart noted on the screen that there is a house here, and there are some other structures. Crosby asked if there are tree buffers to that property also. Barnhart stated some tree buffers on-screen, but not immediately adjacent to the caretaker property. The Applicant has suggested tree planting. Crosby said there would be trees going in there. Barnhart said it is proposed and would be an appropriate condition to add. Walsh noted they talked about some kind of green, evergreen kind of screening. Crosby asked if that is part of these. Barnhart said not specifically, no.