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Preliminary Plat Review: Summerset Meadow~ <br />~etJteml2er 30, 200~ <br />Page 5 of 8 <br />mitigation area will be accepted 'the L~O. E~ly construction will provide time for <br />identi~ing and creat~g additional mitigation area if the initial mitigation area is not <br />acceptable. <br /> <br />Wetland Buffering:. The City is in the process of considering a wetland buffer <br />ordinance. While this ordinance is not yet in effect, Staff is requesting that you consider <br />implementing a wetland buffer along the edges of wetlands within the plat. <br /> <br /> Density .Transition: City Code requires density.transition/ng between the propQsed <br /> single-family urban l'ots and the adjacent single-family rural lot~. 'City, Code:establishes <br /> several options to achieve tke transitioning through landscaping, existing iopogmphicaI~ <br /> features, or matching densities on commori boundaries. Transitioning will be required' <br /> along the northern most eastern prope~-y line, which abuts properties currently zoned <br /> Rural, Reserve. <br /> <br /> The landscaping plan does include planiings acijacent to the existing single family homds <br /> along the eastern boundary as welt as the lone ex/sting lot on Puma St. If landscaping is <br /> to be. used exclusiyely to .achieve ghe transitioning requirements, additiohal plantings will <br /> be necessary. However, City' Code does allow for othdr alterhatives to be utilized when' <br /> agreed upon by the devd0per and th~' City. tt shoutd be noted that the landscaping plan' <br />also does include'buffer plantings along the 'southern edge of the townhomes in <br />anticipation of possible commercial developm%t in the fature as well as. along the <br />possible future bridge corridor.where it abuts proposed lots. <br /> <br />En'vironmental .Assessment WorkSheet (EAW):' An Environmental Assegsme~it <br />Worksheet (EAW) has been prepared in regards to this develol~ment. On July 26, 2005, <br />the. Ramsey City Council._determined that no further environmental review was necessary. <br /> <br />Traffic Generation Report:.· A traffic generation report was prepared fin Conjunction <br />with the. EAW. The study analyzed five (5) inter?ections for current and furore conditions: <br />They are'Armstrong Bi'cd'& TH: 10/i69, Armstrong Blvd and' BUnker" Lake 'Eilx~d, ' <br />Armstrong Blvd and Alpi,ne Drive, Alpine Drive and TH I 0/169 and Alpine DriVe arid <br />Nutria Street. Four of th, e intersections are not signalized. The analysis.10o, ked at current, <br />build and full build conditions. The build condition looks'at the impact 5-om th/s project, <br />discounting impacts of adjacent developments. The full build condition looks at the <br />impact of this project and development in Ramsey Town Center to the East. <br /> <br /> The Armstrong Blvd- TH 10/169 intersection currently functions at lex?el of ~ervice C <br /> which indicates there are delays getting through the intersectiom ~The level of servic~ will <br /> decrease to F under the build, and full build scenarios..Congesticm on TH 10/169 isa <br /> regional problem and s~udies, are underway to address the congestion. An'interchang~ is <br /> proposed in the future' for this intersection which will improve· the level· of service. ' A <br />"·signal is proposed· for the intersect/on o~ Armstrong Boulevard and Bunker Lake Blvd as <br /> pm-t of the regional road !mprovements required by Ramsey Town Center. <br /> <br />34 <br /> <br /> <br />