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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday, October 28, 2002 7:00 o'clock p.m. • ( #02 -2843, PROFESSIONAL PROPERTIES OF ORONO, Continued) - The watershed district has said that, conceptually, they agree with that plan but they have not yet approved the Dahlstrom plan either. In fact, that pond has not been approved and may not be there when this property is ready to give stormwater off from it, and given the way the wetlands were looked at recently, Gaffron was given the impression that the watershed may not accept the Dahlstrom development wetland delineation and stormwater plan either. There are many unknowns and Gaffron felt there should be a contingency plan available for the MCWD so that they are comfortable with where the water will go if the big pond does not get built. Dr. Berg stated that they have been working with Vickie Lindahl, of Landforms,. to develop a stormwater backup plan, with two options, first to use the property next door and dig a hole in it for collection, the other would be to drain the water over to the MnDOT pond. In any scenario, Dr. Berg noted that no paving would be done until next spring, and the wetland would not be affected until then. Gaffron reiterated that mitigation is MCWD's issue, although the City could work on behalf of the developer with the MCWD to some up with viable solutions. Since the City has been offered a development that it likes and one that fits all of our needs, White maintained that the City should make an effort to let MCWD know this is important to us. Mayor Peterson asked why the MCWD did not like this proposal. Moorse indicated that it wasn't a matter of them liking the proposal, there is a certain process to the way they look at their issues. Murphy asked whether the City should go to worst case scenario and back a plan that finds a mitigable plan to move this forward. While not unwise to prepare a back up plan, Gaffron felt the consultant still had a case for the incidental wetland. Sansevere asked who, besides the staff person Wyatt, was saying no to the application. Gaffron noted that Wyatt put together a TEP panel to look at this application, in doing so due to lack of representation for our side,, which is a point of contention for the City, they only heard Wyatt's perspective. Murphy suggested, once again, that the City make an official attempt to get on the MCWD agenda for November 7, 2002. PAGE 16 of 20