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Zoning File #2398 <br />August 13, 1998 <br />Page 6 <br />Pond Expansions Will Require Separate Applications <br />The proposed pond expansions appear to staff to be conceptually not only appropriate but beneficial <br />in terms of the City’s comprehensive storm water management planning. They will create additional <br />storage volume in areas that receive direct golf course runoff, therefore having a potential to provide <br />some retention of nutrients from the runoff. However, virtually no pond design detail has been <br />submitted, and a significantly higher level of engineer detail would be required before a CUP and <br />land alteration permits could be issued for the pond construction. That detail would include as a <br />minimum: <br />a. Wetland delineation by a wetland professional. <br />b. Grading plan including existing and proposed contours and cross Sv*ctions. <br />c. Confirmation of MCWD/DNR/Corps of Engineers permit approval. <br />d. Other engineering detail work as maybe appropriate for each specific site. <br />Additionally, the proposed pond on hole #5 is in the back yards of Chevy Chase Drive properties <br />and represents a change that might generate discussion, based on staffs recollection of an approval <br />process for the existing small pond e.xcavated by the Club in that area some 10 or 12 years ago. <br />Master Plan Approval/Conditional Use Permit/Land Alteration Permit Process <br />In the past the City has approved golf course upgrade concept plan for Wayzata Country’ Club and <br />other golf courses where projects are intended to be staged over long periods of say 3 to 5 years. <br />Staffs recommended approach would be that the City adopt a resolution for concept plan and <br />conditional use pcmiit approval .,:ibject to the following conditions: <br />1. <br />3. <br />4. <br />The tee and bunker reconsu ’uctions are approved per the submitted plans, subject to <br />issuance of a land alteration permit to be obtained annually by the Country Club for <br />that specific year's projects. Any plan revisions would, at staff discretion, be subject <br />to further Planning Commission/Council review’. <br />The submittal for each year's plans would have to include a more detailed survey for <br />those portions of the course where grading w ill be near lot lines, to ensure that lot <br />lines are staked and that grading will not encroach w ithin 5' of those lot lines (or <br />within some other setback established by the City in the concept plan resolution). <br />Planning Commission to recommend, if it feels appropriate, a minimum setback for <br />tees from residential or right-of-way lot lines. <br />The Country Club should be advised to have this concept plan reviewed by, as a <br />minimum, the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District and the DNR to establish <br />whether any additional approvals are required for the tee or bunker program by those <br />agencies.