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' � <br /> Date Application Received: 10/19/11 <br /> Date Application Considered as Complete: 10/28/11 <br /> Review Period Expires: 04/25/12 <br /> To: Chair Schoenzeit and Planning Commission Members <br /> Jessica Loftus, City Administrator <br /> From: Melanie Curtis, Planning&Zoning Coordinator �"�� <br /> Date: 15 February 2012 <br /> Subject: 11-3531, Lori Gherardi on behalf of Wolverton Place, LLC,4550 Wolverton Place <br /> Public Hearing—Subdivision Review <br /> Zoning District: RR-1A One Family Rural Residential District(5 acre/200' width) <br /> Existing Lot Areas: 10.05±acres dry <br /> + 0.045±acres wetland <br /> 10.1±acres total <br /> f�; � � -• <br /> Application Summary: This application contemplates subdivision approval to create one, new <br /> residential 5-acre lot. . <br /> 1. Tract A is proposed to contain 5.00 dry, buildable acres. <br /> 2. Tract B is proposed to contain 5.05 dry, buildable acres. <br /> Staff Recommendation: Staff recommends approval of the subdivision subject to granting the <br /> appropriate easements as indicated. <br /> List of Exhibits <br /> Exhibit A- Proposed Subdivision Survey ' <br /> Exhibit 8- Conservation Design Plan � <br /> ExhibitC- Applicant's Extension Request , - <br /> Exhibit D- PC Packet 01/09/2012 <br /> Exhibit E- Draft PC Minutes—January 2012 <br /> This subdivision request was presented to the Planning Commission at the November and January <br /> meetings and was tabled at both meetings pending a complete submittal. The tabling at the January <br /> meeting was the result of an incomplete Conservation Design Plan. The applicant has now submitted a <br /> revised, completed Conservation Design Plan for review. <br /> ' Conservation Desi�n: Attached to this report as Exhibit B is the applicant's conservation design analysis <br /> and plan. The applicant's conservation design submittal indicates the existing tree stands on the <br /> northern portion of the property bordering the wetland area are to be protected and enhanced and the <br /> grasslands/prairies on the north and south borders totaling approximately 190,000 square feet are also <br /> to be enhanced and protected. The prairie area along the southern property boundary offers a positive <br /> Iong, open view into the property. These areas in addition to the wetland and wetland buffers are <br /> proposed to be protected by covenants and/or easements. The developer has identified smooth brome <br /> grass, common buckthorn and reed canary grass as the primary invasive species existing on the site. <br /> Their plan indicates removal of buckthorn and smooth brome grass as part of the enhancement of the <br /> site. The stormwater component of the conservation design planning requirement, at least for the <br />