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#05-3131 November 17,2005 Page 2 New Information Revised Plans Submitted November 14. Revised plans were recently submitted. Staff would note the following items of interest: 1. 2. The boundaries of Lots 8-9-10 have been shifted slightly. The amount of proposed filling in the wetland within Lot 8 is increasing from 1600 s.f. to 2000 s.f., apparently the maximum that would be allowed by WCA rules under the deminimus clause. This revision and a slightly revised house layout on Lot 8 results in elimination of the variances to wetland buffer/setback width that would have been required under the prior plan. However, please see John Smyth comments below and in Exhibit C. 3.There may be other subtle changes in the plans which have not been identified. Applicant did not provide a list of all the minor plan revisions made. 4. The City Engineer has not yet commented on the recently submitted plans. Meeting with Adam Arvidson of DSU 11/7/05 Applicant and staff met with Adam Arvidson, landscape architect with DSU, on November 7 to review the Rural Oasis study and its applicability to tliis site. Arvidson indicated that due to its size and layout, this is a difllcult site in which to preserve substantial wooded areas. He indicated that saving individual significant trees along the perimeter and within tl*.e site may be feasible, and he suggested that applicant engage an ecologist to suggest a preservation and augmentation plan for the site. Applicant has since contacted Applied Ecological Services (AES) and is expecting to have their comments available for the November 21 meeting. John Smyth Comments On October 26 staff met with the City’s wetland consultant, John Smyth, to review the potential impacts of the proposed wetlaid filling, and determine if there were options to rearrange lot lines to avoid the need for wetland buffer setback variances on Lots 7 and 8. His conclusion is that the City diould support a potential revision to the classification of the wetland along the Willow Drive frontage of Lot 10, allowing the lot lines for Lots 8-9-10 to shift westward. This could potentially allow for reductions, instead of increases, to the fill in the wetland in Lot 8, which Smyth secs as a more valuable wetland to protect than that in Lot 10 along Willow Drive.