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jurisdictions: <br />City <br />DNR (particular classifications) <br />Corps of Engineers <br />Environmental Protection Agency <br />Minnehaha Watershed District <br />Lake Minnetonka Conservation District (below 929.4) <br />State Pollution Control Agency <br />There has been a substantial shift in policy as to view of long <br />existing regulations by the Corps of Engineers. This has come <br />into play in the Carlson application as noted in Attachment F, <br />which the City did approve for construction of a road with <br />compensation in a wetlands that is not DNR protected. This is an <br />area that was tiled out 30 or 40 years ago and has little, if <br />any, of the type of vegetation normally found in wetlands. The <br />Corps of Engineers recently indicated that they would not approve <br />it since there was another route that could minimize the <br />construction in the wetlands. The developer is currently <br />reviewing his options in this matter. It is interesting to note, <br />however, the Corps of Engineers within the past several months <br />has given their tacit approval to a similar situation in Medina. <br />Process - With all of these agencies it becomes a substantial <br />coordinating process to determine whether such developments will <br />go ahead. Currently the Corps of Engineers has directed that a <br />City work on approving . subdivision before they will review it. <br />This however, does place the applicant at considerable expense <br />before their review by the Corps is undertaken. <br />21^ ^EEli.££J^l£Il " This property which <br />previously was owned by the Freshwater Biological Institute was <br />sold to Mr. Blanch. There have been proposals submitted by FWBI <br />in prior years which contemplated various types of multiple <br />residential, duplex, single family development of this property. <br />The property outside the designated wetlands has been available <br />for development since its purchase. The fill that was placed on <br />the property was the result of suction dredging done in Lafayette <br />Bay (main lake) in 1978. It was an experiment by FWBI to see <br />what could be done with dredging spoils without having to cart <br />them out of the area. Controlled experiments were done to <br />determine the amount of nutrient run-off from this fill into the <br />wetlands. While fill such as this is not usable for spetic