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I > r ' o cn • i ■■ . jA . r^J’ . ^ ■JT - 'M ■ > ITO:%FROM:DATE:%!Vlayor Callahan and Orono Councilnictnbers Ron Moorse, City Administrator ' ~ v>Jeanne A. Mabusth, Building & Zoning Administrator ' cjf*- *^o. VFebruary' 18, 1993 VSUBJECT: #1799 Albert and Sally Hanser, 1685 Fox Street - Conditional Use Permit/Variance - Public HearingBrief Review of Application Applicants were required to file a conditional use permit for land alterations proposed in excess of 100 cubic yards. I^nd alterations were required by the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District permit during tnt '•eview of the three lot subdivision application requiring the installation of a sediment pond of a T depth. The Conser\'ation and Flowage Easement taken over the drainage casement area requires that the City approve all land alterations within the protected area. As land alterations for a pond were already required by the Watershed District, the additional extavaricn:; to approximate 5’+ would create no additional impact on area. The sediment pond would now have standing water rather than just the periodic runoff created during wet seasons. The City Engineer has confirmed that the additional depth will b.ave no impact on the functioning of the pond as a sediment control/trap. In 1992 the City of Orono t iled a conditional use permit variance application dealing with road improvements for Fox Street that involved the expansion of the existing road bed and the filling of the adjacent wetlands on the north and south side of road. The DNR permit requires that the City provide a compensatory excavation for mitigation purposes within the immediate watershed. The applicants have been asked to consider allowing the City to excavate to the edges of the drainage easement to a 1’ depth to allow for the 21,000 s.f. area needed to mitigate the filling of the wetland. The issue for the applicants was whether the mature trees within the drainage easement could be presen'cd as a re.sult of the City’s excavations. Shawn Gustafson of the City Engineer’s office has advised that it was the Engineer’s intention all along to preserve the more mature trees located along the edges ot the drainage easement. The Planning Commission recognized the need for applicants to proceed during the cold winter months also noting that any e.xcavation proposed widiin the protected area should be completed within the w inter months and advised that if applicants were agreeable and it the City could arrange to meet the requirements of the DNR pennit in time to jointly proceed with the proposed land alteration that this may not conflict with applicants ’ schedule.