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<br /> <br />Date Application Received: 4/20/16 <br />Date Application Considered as Complete: 4/20/16 <br />60-Day Review Period Expires: 6/19/16 <br /> <br /> <br /> REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION <br /> Date: June 8, 2016 <br /> Item No.: 8 <br />______________________________________________________________________________ <br />Department Approval: Administrator Approval: Agenda Section: <br />Name: Michael P. Gaffron JML Planning Dept. <br />Title: Senior Planner <br />______________________________________________________________________________ <br />Item Description: 16-3828 City of Medina/Stonegate Farm, Inc., 2940 Sixth Avenue North <br />- CUP – Resolution <br />- Wetland Rezoning – Ordinance Adoption <br />______________________________________________________________________________ <br />List of Exhibits <br /> A – Draft CUP Resolution <br /> B – Draft Wetland Rezoning Ordinance and Summary Ordinance <br /> C – Notice of Planning Commission Action 5/24/16 <br /> D – Draft Planning Commission Minutes 5/16/16 <br /> E – PC Memo & Exhibits Dated 5/12/16 <br /> <br /> <br />Background <br />The owner of the property at 2940 Sixth Ave. N. in Orono, Stonegate Farm, Inc. (Susan Seeland) <br />is developing adjacent land in Medina that will be accessed via a new public road to be built <br />through the Orono property. The City of Medina is technically the applicant since the road is <br />being constructed as a Chapter 429 (Assessment) project. The road section in Orono is being <br />built within an easement granted by the owner, rather than via a platted road corridor, which <br />process was found acceptable by the Medina and Orono City Attorneys. The road is being <br />constructed as a public road to be maintained by the City of Medina. This will be memorialized <br />in the resolution approving the CUP. <br />The location of the access to Homestead Trail requires crossing of a narrow wetland corridor <br />which serves as the outlet to the 9-acre wetland on the Orono property. This crossing is <br />Application Summary: Requested are conditional use permits for land alteration and wetland <br />filling, and a rezoning to remove the portions of wetland to be filled from the Wetland Overlay <br />District, in order to construct a public road to serve a 40-unit single family development in <br />Medina to be known as Deer Hill Preserve. <br />Planning Commission Recommendation: At its May 16 meeting the Planning Commission <br />held a public hearing and reviewed the request. On a vote of 6-0, Planning Commission <br />recommended approval of the application per the conditions enumerated in the staff <br />recommendation. <br />Staff Recommendation: Staff recommends approval subject to conditions as noted in the PC <br />memo and as included within the attached CUP resolution and wetland rezoning ordinance.