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NIINUTES OF TI� <br /> ORONO PLANNING COMNIISSION MEETING <br /> Monday,May 18,2015 <br /> 6:30 o'clock p.m. <br /> the property owner could put in an outbuiIding and not lose a tree. Stickney stated the layout aIlows <br /> someone to live iin the woods and not ruin what is tf�ere. <br /> Stickney indicatod he did t�se same thing on Lot 7. For t�te fiirst 400 feet,they will lose only three trees. <br /> Fn additioa,the covenants will also protect the trees on top of the tree preservation areas. Stickney stated <br /> if the house is removed on Lot 6 and a new home is built,they should not lose any trees on tha#lot either <br /> and that the new house can be buitt right on the existing hard surface. <br /> Stickney indicated he has walked through every proposed lot and that ti�ey are locating the septic sites in <br /> the best possible locations. <br /> Stickney notsd Lot 5 will only lose four trees. Stickney stated he has never had a project without a net <br /> gain of trees. Sticl�ey indicated installing curb and gutter will help reduce the amount of grading and <br /> aIso halp prevent significant tree loss. Another component of the drainage will consist of swales. <br /> Stickney noted the City Engineer w$s not in atter�dance at the Dosigu Conservation meeting but that ho <br /> had indicated he wanted the 15-foot boundaries on each property spelle�out and thc prairie preservation <br /> areas identified on Lots 1 and 2. Stickney indicatod tha prairie grass preservation shall be enforced <br /> surrounding tt►e wetland on the southerly boundary of the properry and that access will be off of Outlot E <br /> from County Road 6. Sticlmey indicated he wants to preserve what exists today and t#iat there is over 200 <br /> feet of woods before the setback. By dropping the cul-de-sac,there will ba 100 feet of preservation <br /> before Lots 1 and 2. There is also a 150-foot tree cortidor that will continue to grow. <br /> Sticicney stated Photograph No. 5 shows a develapment he did in Medina with the access coming in off of <br /> Willow Road. The cul-de-sac is locabed in the Big Woods and is not visible on the aerial photograph. <br /> Stickney stated they have trees that are witt�in five feet of the road base that are thriving in that <br /> development. Stickney aoted this is a 180-foot cul-de-sac that is complebely hidden,which is the intent <br /> with this development as weil. <br /> Staclmey stated the lots will be covered vv�th strict covenants,restrictions,planned tree replacement and <br /> landscaping,which will assist in greserving the wonderful view cor�idor enjoyed by everyone who has <br /> driven on County Raad 6. <br /> As it relates to Lot 1,the prairie gass preservation shall be enforced surrounding the wotland on�e <br /> southerly boundary of the property with access off of Outlot E from County Road 6. Lot 2 will have <br /> prairie preservation area over the sautherly 40 feet of this lot. Trees will be ptanted just north of the <br /> praservation z�ne to preserve the long existing view this property has protected for the last 50-plus years. <br /> Lot 3 wilt have a largc pond on the southern portion of this lot,with pine trces to be planted by the <br /> developer to protect the view corridor from County Road 6 over the driveway from Outlot F. Lot 3 also <br /> includes part of two manmade ponds and a newly to be created drainage pand. Access is off of Outlot F <br /> from County Road 6. Lot 4 wiil havo accass via a private road within Outlot F as well. <br /> Lot 5 bas an existing tennis court, a pond, and a portion of ti�e existiung driveway crossing the property. <br /> The lot will be accessed by the private road shown as Outlot F. The westeru portions of this lot cantain <br /> Mapl�basswood forest. The existing tennis court will be c�emoved in order to sccommodate the proposed <br /> stonmwater pond. <br /> Page 12 of 37 <br />