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I I I REQUEST Background: CASE #: 5 FOR PRELIMINARY PLAT APPROVAL OF PONDVIEW; CASE OF GOOD VALUE HOMES By: Zoning Administrator Sylvia Frolik I I I As you recall, the Planning Commission conducted a public hearing and recommended that City Council grant preliminary plat approval to Pondview. The preliminary plat recommended for approval consisted of 149 lots with two accesses onto C.S.A.H. #116 and one access onto C.S.A.H. #56.' The Planning Commission also recommended that Limonite Street not be constructed as a through street north into Peltzer Addition. However, a trail corridor was provided from the terminus of Limonite north to 149th. Observations: The preliminary plat and rezoning request were submitted to City Council on January 23. At that time, Council iritroduced an ordinance to rezone the property with some expression of concern. Based on their! request for additional information to support the rezoning, the request for preliminary plat 'approval was tabled until the rezoning issue was resolved. I I I I I I I I I On February 13, City Staff presented Council with the requested information surrounding the rezoning request. At that time, the Developer presented Council with a modification to the rezoning request that reduced the amount of property to be rezoned to residential and retained some industrial property adjacent to #56. Along with the rezoning modification, the Developer made some design modifications to the plat which consisted of dead ending 147th Avenue at the east boundary of the industrial parcel and extending Limonite Street north to 149th Lane in Peltzer Addition as a through street and access to C.S.A.H. #56. The developer's reasons for these design modifications were to delay connecting 147th with C.S.A.H. #56 until such time as the commercial property develops to allow some flexibility in the development of the commercial parcel and access to it. The through street to 149th and C.S.A.H. #56 provides an alternate ingress/egress to the plat from #56 until such time as the commercial parcel develops and the extension of 147th to #56 is completed. After a lengthy discussion, the City Council directed that the revision to the preliminary plat be sent back to the Planning Commission for additional hearings and review. It appeared that Council unanimously agreed that 147th should be extended as originally proposed to intersect with C.S.A.H. #56. There were differeing opinions regarding whether or not LimOnite Street should be extended into Peltzer Addition as a through street to 149th and eventual access to #56. By a 3 to 2 vote, Council requested that the Planning Commission consider a plan that would provide for the connection of 147th with #56 and Limonite Street terminating at 148th. Councilmember Zimmerman requosted that the Planning Commission reconsider whether or not the extension of Limonite Street as a through street to 149th will be a benefit. Subsequent to the Council meeting on February 13, 1996, the Developer did provide City Staff with another revision to the preliminary plat that reinstated 147th as a through street to C.S.A.H. #56 and retained Limonite Street as a through street to 149th. This plan was subjected to a public hearing at the Planning Commission on March 4, 1996 and was forwarded to Anoka County Highway Department for review and comment. The Planning Commission recommended that City Council grant preliminary plat approval to Pondview with 147th terminating at the east boundary of the commercial parcel and extending Limonite Street as a through street to 149th Lane. I I I As reported in previous Pondview preliminary plat discussions: The lots bordering Wetland #2-118 are under shoreland regulations and considered riparian. As such, they are required to be 15,000 square feet in area above the ordinary high water level. The preliminary plat reflects that the riparian lots do meet the shoreland requirements. All other lots are considered non-riparian and as such, are required to meet the standard urban minimum area of 10,800 square feet. 3.II non-riparian lots are in compliance. IZl