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Mayor C~amec told th~evelopers that they were to everything out with the City Attorney and come back to the City Council or preliminary approval but 's~nce that t~me nne ~eve~opers nave included land area within the Critical area designation and the city has to abide by the ordinance on the Critical Areas and the city doesn't ha~e E.Q.B. approval. The developer asked if he could get approval if he would leave out the land area within the Critical Area. City Attorney Goodrich informed the developers that the city still has not received the.abstract or the escrow. Mayor Gamec informed the ~evelopers that they don't have preliminary approval yet, but they could come in with the preliminary and final approval requests the same day. City Attorney Goodrich explained that the only thing the dewel~pers can do is sell the lots, but the buyers cannot get a building permit unless the improvements are in. The developer asked if the escrow would go off when the streets are in. Mayor Gamec said the escrow would go off when the street are in. The developer asked if he could hold off on blacktopp'.~ng until'75% of the lots are developed because construction ~ight hurt the blacktopping;- He asked if they could just gravel the streets.. Mayor Gamec told him to put the request in his proposal. City Engineer Raatikka informed the developer that there .is a water proble~ on the urban street which would wash out the gravel and befQre they could blacktop, th~.gravel would have to be redone. .' The general consensus of the council is that' t~e area should all be blacktopped. The. developer asked'if the blacktopping'would be escrowed. Mr. Butt Chelton, developer, said.the whole purpose of escrow is for security for the city and he said he would like to be able to sell some lots before blacktopping. .Mayor Gamec informed him.that the lots can be sold before blacktopping, but no b~ild~n9 permits would be issued until afl.the improvements are in. The developer said they' were discussing, putting in condominiums or townhouses or quads on .the lots to the south of Riverdale and he wanted to know if these would be allowed. Mayor Gamee explained that presently only s'.~ngle dwelling houses are allowed, but the city Xs look'.3rng into other type housing now. COUNCIL'N~WBUSINESS 1) Double Driveway 'to'Eerve 'a Residential Lot'for Council 'Discussion City A~m{nistrator Schnelle explained the reason for the ordinance allowing only one driveway per residential lot is that at one time the city paid for C/May 27, 1980 Page 8