04-28-2025 - Agenda Packet CC - regular meeting

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From:Melanie Curtis To:"Matt Jasper" Subject:LA25-000007/ 4745 North Shore Dr / PC Action Notice + 60-day extension Date:Thursday, March 20, 2025 3:37:00 PM Matt As you are aware, on Monday night, the Planning Commission reviewed your application for an after-the-fact CUP Amendment. Following the public hearing, they voted 5 – 0 on a motion to approve with the following conditions: 1. Provide an updated landscape plan to screen all of the walls from the lake. The plan should be detailed and include species, number, and placement of plants. The plan should clarify the type of ground cover proposed for the flattened path along the lake – no hardcover is permitted. 2. Provide updated information (statement of need and an updated plan) from your engineer addressing of all the walls constructed on site. You should consider submitting an updated survey that identifies boulder walls, boulder outcroppings, and differentiates the rip rap from the boulder walls for clarity. The definition of retaining walls from City Code section 78-1 is as follows: Retaining wall means a structure designed to hold back and prevent lateral movement of earth. Two or more abutting boulders, 24 inches in diameter or greater, placed to hold back the earth are considered to be a retaining wall. Landscape edging, less than six inches tall, is not considered a retaining wall. 3. The plans must be approved by the City engineer. Based on the updated engineered plans dated 04/15/2025, our engineer has the following comment: “neither the justification email from the engineer nor the boulder wall design appear to address the upper wall depicted on the as-built in the southeast corner of the property”. Once the requested information is provided, I will schedule the City Council review. Please submit the above information by or before Wednesday, April 2nd for placement on the April 14th Council agenda. Additionally, the City has 60 days from the date of a complete application to review. Based on your submittal/completion date (February 14th), your initial review timeline for this request would end on April 15, 2025. I want to ensure the City Council has a full opportunity to review your application, and although I don’t anticipate it, we need to allow them the opportunity to table the application for further review if they deem it necessary. Therefore, we hereby notify you that we are extending the time period for City action under Minn. Stat. § 15.99, subd. 3(f). The initial 60-day period would normally end on April 15th, the application review time period is now hereby extended until June 14, 2025. In the unlikely event that further extensions beyond June 14th are required, the extension will need to be requested by you in writing (email). Thank you, Melanie Melanie Curtis, Planner 2750 Kelley Parkway, Orono, MN 55356 129