10-24-1988 - Agenda Packet City Council - regular meeting

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TO: Mayor Grabek & Orono Council Members City Administrator Bernhardson FROM: Michael P. Gaffron, Planning & Zoning Administrator / DATE: October 19, 1988 SUBJECT: #1330 Fullerton Properties Inc., 880 Townline Road - Subdivision For 7 New Building Sites - Preliminary Plat Approval - Resolution Zoning District - RR-lA, 5 acre minimd'm LIST OF BXHIBITS: Exhibit A - Planning Commission Action Notice Dated 10/19/88 Exhibit B - Revised Site Plan Exhibit C - Memo & Exhibits of 10/14/88 Exhibit D - Proposed Preliminary Plat Approval Resolution DISCUSSION - Please review the memos of September 13, 1988 and October 14, 1988. Applicant's are proposing a 7-lot rural subdivision with each lot containing 5 acres or more in area. Each exceeds the required 2 acres contiguous dry buildable land. Lots 2, 4, and 5 require variances to the defined width at. the 100' front setback line. Painters Creek runs through this property, and the applicants have been granteo approval by the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District for 2 privats driveway crossings of the creek. The Watershed District maintains a dam nat straddles the boundary between proposed Lots 2 and 3, and the Distr ' :t has an access easement for maintance of that dam. This easement will 1,.,e no effect on buildability of the property. The dam controls the flow through Painters Creek to a degree that peak flows downstream from the dam are reducer' significantly enough to allow use of 24" arch culverts for the driveway crossings. Regarding the required drainageeasement ever that creek, the City Li.gineer has recommended that a 50' drainage easement centered on the creek be dedicated on the plat. The wetland within Lots 2 and 3 will be subject to a conservation and flowage easement. This is intended to be a private road with a cul-de-sac. Length of the road is 1000'. The road access lines up directly across Townline Road from another road access point in Independence. Sight distance is not a problem. Paved width of the road has been proposed at 24' (urban section). The City Engineer has recommended and Planning Commission has similarly recommended that for this 7-lot division, minimum paved width must be 28'. City Engineer and staff have looked at current and potential development of the surrounding properties and the location of the existing wetlands, and halve recommended that dedication of additional roadway is not necessary since no future connecting roads are anticipated to adjacent properties.