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ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2002 8. #02 -2747 Tonka Ventures, 3749 Livingston Avenue Easement Vacation— • Resolution No. 4761— Continued building is finished, it will be difficult to control erosion. They are currently controlling erosion with a silt fence and hay bails. They have also planted trees as planned up to this point, but will need to complete the project before they can finish the plantings and landscaping. How soon they can finish the project will depend on the weather. The approved landscape plan is filed with the City and the City has a line of credit that will be held until the project is complete. Weinberger stated that the neighbors may have thought more trees would be going in than actually will. The final elevations wouldn't be complete until the project is complete and the backfill is in. Flint asked if the City Engineer would visit the site. Kellogg stated he would visit on Friday. Weinberger stated that if the Council did not adopt the resolution, then it would have to come back at the March 1 lth meeting. Flint stated he would be willing to approve it based on the builder's verbal assurance that he would address the neighbors' concerns. Mr. Gleason stated he was looking for approval so that they could begin construction. Flint moved, and Sansevere seconded, to adopt Resolution No. 4761 vacating a • dedicated drainage and utility easement within the plat of Lake Minnetonka Woods. Vote: Ayes 4, Nays 0. 9. #02 -2749 Thomas P. Egan, 350, 360, 370 Big Island— Vacation Weinberger suggested the Council might want to discuss the role of the Planning Commission in relation to vacating land on Big Island. He stated that the applicant had phoned to say he would not be present because his neighbors were unable to attend, and he could not speak for them. Flint stated they should get the Parks Commission's input as a matter of policy on vacating public lands. He suggested the City may want to preserve part of the right -of- way as public access to the lake. Nygard stated that the area was comprised of bluffs and it was not a good access point. Flint moved, and Nygard seconded, to table item 9. Vote Ayes 4, Nays 0. Flint moved, and Nygard seconded, that vacation requests within the City should first be reviewed by the Parks Commission. Vote: Ayes 4, Nays 0. . 31