Laserfiche WebLink
• i <br />#04.3007 <br />May 10,2004 <br />Page 4 <br />D) The area mapped as wetland is relatively flat and open, but sli^tly higher in elevation than the non- <br />delineated wetland to the immediate southwest. Tliis non-delineated areahas mature box elder and <br />cottonwoods growing in the old fill. <br />Issues to be Considered <br />1. <br />2. <br />Other jurisdictions: <br />- Assuming the MCWD certifies the wetland boundaries as delineated, will they: <br />- require that a buffer be established and maintained? How much buffer? <br />- allow filling of the wetland to accommodate a house, driveway or other amenities? <br />- include the ditch as wetland as they apparently have done with the Monies Auto <br />property, causing problems with future development of the site? <br />- Or, will MCWD find that the entire site is filled wetland and should be restored? <br />- This is not a DNR protected wetland; what is the Coips of Engineers ’ jurisdictional position in <br />terms of past wetland filling? <br />Functional issues: <br />- The site contains fill soils which have a potential to be unstable for foundation purposes. We <br />don’t have any idea of what’s below the fill...10' of muck? <br />- The diainageway serves a specific public purpose and must be maintained in its current locat in; <br />it has the potential to be an amenity to a home on this site, but at the moment it’s a place <br />for debris to collect and for water to flow... <br />- If the delineated wetland cannot be altered, and if MCWD requires a 16' buffer around it, this <br />leaves an area meeting LR-1A setbacks of approximately 50' x 100' in the lower elevations <br />of the lot, in the filled area, as shown in Exhibit Q. <br />- Further, if the City chooses to treat the remaining wetland as City protected and give up the filled <br />area as no longer wetland, then the City’s 26' wetland setback would apply, and the <br />legal building pad area reduces to 50' x 90'... <br />- Because the site is so low, it is likely that fill will be needed to make it buildable, and no basement <br />would be feasible due to the extremely high water table... <br />Envirorunental issues: <br />- Stormwater from the church parking lot drains thi’ough the ditch on Lot 2. The upstream drainage <br />area fi’om the culvert under Lakenew Terrace is approximately 10-12 acres. The Orono <br />Surface Water Management Plan indicates a stormwater pond is needed at the outlet of <br />the church parking lot... <br />- Lot 2 is the low point in the immediate neighborhood to which runoff naturally drains. Any home <br />built on the site will have to re-direct drainage to ensure flooaing does not occur. <br />- The lot appears to have been used as a neighborhood dumping ground... old abandoned <br />appliances are scattered on the site, junk and debris line the drainageway, and an old brush <br />pile is stacked at the northwest comer of the'site. All these would likely be eliminated if <br />a home is constructed on the site...