Agenda - Environmental Policy Board - 09/19/2016

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CITY OF RAMSEY LAND USE APPLICATION TECHNICAL REVIEW FILE DATE SEPTENLBER 14,2016 PROJECT ADDRESS FTBD PROJECT.TITLE BROOKFIELD 8TH ADDITION ESCROW# 115267 DEPARTMENT: Community Development:Planning Division (Landscape Plan&Environmental Resources Name: Chris Anderson, City-Planner TECHNICAL REVIEWER: Phone: 763-433-9817 Email: candersona Ci Toframse=.Com We offer the following comments regarding the Tree Inventory and Protection Plan and the Landscape Plan, both prepared by E. G. Rud & Sons, Inc. and dated September 1, 2016: Per the Tree Inventory and Protection Plan, there are 7,726 inches of significant tree DBH on the property and there will be 3,544 inches of significant tree DBH remaining after grading, utilities, sidewalks and street are completed. This is the equivalent of forty-six percent (46%) of the significant tree DBH and meets the standards of the Tree Preservation Ordinance. } y O The City's Natural Resources Inventory(NRI) identifies some � �' L B moderate quality woodlands _ and wetlands on the site (site is approximated by the red boxes). This is primarily along the Trott Brook corridor. 02-032-25-09-010 F While there will be some J 9-2 , impacts to the woodlands, there is a recorded Conservation and Trail ', 9-3 . Easement, in favor of the City, '' 9- which protects the brook, 9-1 associated wetlands, and a 4_ t 9-15 portion of the upland woods adjacent to it and helps ;. maintain a valuable wildlife corridor along the brook as .10-2 02-032-25-1-0- well. 2-p 2-25-l0- well. There is also a trail that already exists within this corridor for the benefit of the public. The Master Trail Plan indicates that eventually this trail will be extended (via a boardwalk) west to connect with Variolite St.