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MIMITB8 or not ruMmw cowassioo tawms jmm if • ifSf <br />soanc nu iifiT-asp curuuid <br />straightened out the substation would face a different direction. <br />Planning Connissioner Johnson questioned whether there would <br />be a need for additional overhead lines? Mr. Pisher responded <br />that the current single phase line extending along County Road 6 <br />«rould need to be upgraded to three'^phase line. <br />Zoning Adaiinistrator Mabusth asked Mr. Fisher to confirn the <br />actual height of the pole. Mr. Pisher said that the pole would <br />be 40* high with a lightening rod that would extend an additional <br />10'. <br />Ms. lileen Basse 1-840 Hunt Farsi Road, questioned how the <br />land ~Eelng use^ by H8P was soneiiTor this type of use in the <br />■idst of residential soning? Mabusth explained that BSP's use of <br />this property was a perwitted use in this soning district with a <br />conditional use pemit. <br />Mr. Milliaa Fraser-830 Hunt Farsi Koau. said that the <br />proposed stru^ure wouT?TSe~7^eye sore and wouTd heve a negative <br />isipact on his property value. <br />Acting Chairperson Bellows asked about the noise isipact? <br />Mr. Bargraeves replied that a husi would b« audible# but that the <br />screening would reduce the isipact on neighboring properties. <br />Bellows asked what other properties MSP had looked at as <br />alternatives to this particular site. Mr. Bargraeves replied <br />that two sites near the Luce Line were considered. The site had <br />to be one that currently had a heavy duty line and was in the <br />area where service needed to be Increased. <br />Ms. Basse1 asked why the Luce Line and Baker Park locations <br />were not chosen? Mr. Bargraeves replied that the DNR would not <br />allow the substation to be built along the Luce Line. He was <br />uncertain as to why the Baker Park location was oaiitted. Mr. <br />Stephen Pflauii Interjected that to the best of his knowledge <br />Baker Park was government land and it would take nearly an act of <br />Congress to allow the park Ifind to be divided. <br />Mr. Fraser questioned whether there would be any possible <br />contamination of Painters Creek Watershed District? The issue of <br />PCB's was also discussed. Bellows asked why an environmental <br />impact study had not been done for this substation? Mr. Fisher <br />replied that such studies were only required for high voltage <br />stations. Bellows directed staff to work with the concerned <br />residents due to the fact that irreversible damage to the area <br />could occur. <br />Planning Commissioner Hanson indicated that he too was <br />concerned about the possibility of decreasing real estate values <br />and the noise. <br />Planning Commissioner Brown said that the noise of Highway <br />12 itself would be louder than the hum from the substation.