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Date Application Received: 10/30/2023 <br />Date Application Considered as Complete: 12/07/2023 <br />60-Day Review Period Extension Expires: 06/04/2024 <br /> <br /> <br />To: Chair Bollis and Planning Commission Members <br /> Adam Edwards, City Administrator <br /> <br />From: Melanie Curtis, Planner mcc <br /> <br />Date: 15 April 2024 <br /> <br />Subject: #LA23-000062, Granite Companies LLC o/b/o Travis & Sara Wildenberg <br />3838 Cherry Avenue <br /> <br />Conditional Use Permit: After-the-Fact <br />Planning Commission Meeting #2 <br /> <br /> <br />MN§15.99 Application Deadline <br />The application was received on October 30, 2023, and considered to be complete on December 7, <br />2023. The initial 60-day review period would have expired on February 5, 2024. Staff extended the <br />timeline an additional 60-days for a review period ending on April 5, 2024. Due to the delay in their <br />plan preparation, the applicant requested an additional 60-day extension (Exhibit F). The review <br />timeline will now expire on June 4, 2024. <br /> <br />Background <br />While the new home was under construction the existing improvements (walls, stairs, and a <br />patio/landing) and the entirety of the lake slope vegetation including trees were removed. The <br />contractor began installing a new stone slab lake access stair and new angular boulder retaining <br />walls without permits and the work was stopped. <br /> <br />The after-the-fact CUP request was presented to the Planning Commission in January; after review <br />and discussion, the application was tabled to allow the applicant to provide additional technical <br />information. <br /> <br />Following the Planning Commission’s direction, the applicant provided an engineered design for the <br />retaining walls, an updated landscape plan and a revised proposed certificate of survey showing the <br />wall layout with a comment from their licensed professional stating that the “proposed retaining <br />walls follow the same general layout as the existing retaining walls. Existing dry-stacked stone walls <br />are failing and in need of replacement. Areas between new walls are proposed with plantings to help <br />with screening of walls.” <br /> <br />Application Summary: The applicant is requesting after-the-fact approval of a conditional use <br />permit to construct new and replacement retaining walls on the lake yard slope within the 75- <br />foot setback from the OHWL. <br />Staff Recommendation: Planning Department Staff recommends approval. <br />133 <br />PC <br />Exhibit A