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City Attorney Goodrich replied that it would be legal if the developer chose to do that, but the Court order allows the developer to have lots of a minimum of 10,800 square feet. Councilmember Anderson stated that she preferred Option B being that there are five cul-de-sacs and five through streets. She did not think a neighborhood should be "walled off". As a resident of the existing neighborhood she has some concern that in the future they will be unable to get out onto T.H. #47 because of the increase of traffic so it is very likely that the existing neighborhood will need to get access to 153rd Avenue. The proposed through streets to the north were designed as through streets years ago and should stay that way. The property has been placed inside the MUSA area and she does not know of many developers who would want to develop one acre lots. The proposed density of the development is 2.1 units per acre. It seemed to her that Centex has tried to make some accommodation to the east and west of the development so that it will be a minimum impact on the existing homeowners. She hoped that Centex would salvage as many trees by moving them to the perimeter edges where existing neighbors are more heavily impacted. Councilmember Hendriksen inquired as tO what the Mayor was going to do about density transitioning. Mayor Gamec replied that he is unable to do anything in this case because of a Court order, but he is willing to continue working on a density transition ordinance. Councilmember Hendriksen responded that what the City is saying is that if a developer chooses to sue the City the Council would be prohibited from discussing density transitioning. He suggested that the Council get a density transition ordinance in place that is meaningful. City Engineer Olson stated that a question was brought forward regarding the sewer and water trunk fees including the storm sewer projects. After some research he did find out that due to the nature of the preliminary plat they have not completely come up with the sewer and water extensions costs. Roughly there will be $210,000 in costs that would be attributable to the developer off-site. Councilmember Hendriksen stated that an easy explanation is that the plat does not call out the amount of storm storage that does not have an outlet to the Rum River. If they are to provide an outlet to the Rum River there is about $130,000 in cost that they do not have a funding source for. City Engineer Olson reviewed the drainage plan of the site, which includes an overflow for the interior development. The $130,000 is for the positive overflow, but there is also a benefit to the City because of the park and low land. At this time, staff did not have the particulars of where the money would be coming from, but in other developments in the City the issue was handled in detail in the development agreement and any additional costs were born by the developer. City Council/September 11, 2001 Page 10 of 23