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'■si Zoning Application #1704 January 15, 1992 Page 3 The applicant has filed the necessary permit application with the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District. Prior to the City issuing a land alteration permit to complete the project, the City must be in receipt of the permit from the Watershed District. Hardship Statement Please review the application. Exhibit A. noted as follows: Hardships are 1.There were never any plans or improvements made to the drainage channel at the time the formal drainage easement was created with the approval of the plat in 1970. 2.Current drainageway cannot handle large rainfalls causing flooding in the back yards. Dead trees pose a hazard in windstorms and create hours of clean-up after 15 m.p.h. winds. As the drainage improvement already installed by Mr. Madge involves hardcover, the applicant was asked to provide a hardcover inventory of the property. Staff has briefly reviewed those hardcover facts and notes that the hardcover areas have been designated appropriately but staff cannot confirm upon a site inspection whether all hardcover has been designated because of snow cover. Hardcover is reported as follows: 0-75' setback area = 75-250* setback area 250-500' setback area 5.93% (this may be area of riprap) 4.66% 33.64% There is a 20* wide utility easement that intersects the lakeshore yards of the subject properties. The easement is not a sewer easement as the sev/er lines are located within Forest Arms Lane. The City must ask for documentation confirming that the appropriate utility company or agency has been advised of the proposed land alterations and that said land alterations will have no impact. Options of Action If application is to be denied, please refer to the necessary findings in the variance and conditional use permit sections of your code. If denial includes the removal of riprap/grout area adjacent to roadway, please provide a suggested deadline date for the removal of the facility.