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r To: ORONO CITY COUNCIL AND MA YOR June 19, 2004 From: Henry J. Lazniarz Re: “CREEKSIDE IN ORONO” PRELIMINARY PLAT Wc have prepared a packet of information for your review to answer questions raised at our meeting with the City Council. I received my training as an Environmental and Civil Engineer at the University of Minnesota. I was employed by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) as an Environmental and Civil Engineer for 21 years before 1 began my development and residential construction business. A portion of my responsibilities at the MPCA was the review of development projects. I received on the job training at the MPCA in appropriate land development practices and inspected development sites for compliance with MPCA written development guidelines and rules. We designed “Creekside in Orono ” with the Schoell and Madson, Inc., an environmental engineering firm, we believe, employing the best principles practiced in land pUmning. We conferred with Mike Ga^in, the Orono City Planner, before presenting to the Planning Commission five proposed plats. The Planning Commission approved the Preliminary Plat presented to the City Council. We believe the plat approved by the Plarming Commission employs the same development principals put forward by the MPCA. I have attached some diagrams wc utilized at the MPCA to help developers and builders complete environmentally sound development projects. Utilizing these same diagrams, you can sec that we are clustering development using a PRD approach resulting in shorter streets, preserving significant blocks of undeveloped open space as referred to by the atuiched Figure 3.1-15. We are saving sensitive areas such as natural drainage areas to form buffer zones between our cluster of housing and neighboring lands as referred to by tlic attached Figure 3.1-2. Wc are placing the private road over tlic exiting driveway along tlte existing ridge line, keeping road pavement out of existing low areas and maximizing the natural infiltration capacity of the vegetated natural drainage areas as referred to by the attached Figure 3.1-4. We wished to utilize a narrower road to reduce impervious surface and conserve energy as refcircd to by the attached Figure 3.1-20. Additionally, we are installing a storm water pond to regulate and treat storm water leaving the site. The topography of the site allows the development of rear walkout homes with minimal amoimts of grading activities. The new homes will be built on the exiting knoll along the new roadway, which will be placed over the existing driveway. I run a residential