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2 <br /> <br />• Lighting Plan prepared by Luma Sales Associates, dated 12-09-21 <br /> <br />ANALYSIS <br /> <br />General Site Characteristics <br /> <br />Per the applicant’s narrative, the proposed project is a 55+ age restricted senior housing <br />building constructed on a 4.5 acre parcel zoned for Planned Unit Development. The <br />project consists of a 3-story, 72 unit building constructed over a one story, at-grade <br />parking garage providing one parking space per unit, with an additional 73 open-air <br />parking stalls. <br /> <br />Several amenities will also be offered, including a community room, fitness center, mail <br />and package lockers, woodshop, game room, and salon. There will be a variety of one <br />and two bedroom floor plans available. The building is estimated to be open for <br />occupancy by August 2023. <br /> <br />Stormwater will flow to two wet sedimentation basins, both of which outlet to a large <br />wetland northwest of the parcel. <br /> <br />Land Cover <br /> <br />Pre-settlement land cover (Marschner) was wet prairie. Wet prairie is typically <br />dominated by grasses, with some sedges present and less forbs than are found in mesic <br />prairie. In the absence of fire, wet prairie will have higher concentrations of trees and <br />shrubs. <br /> <br />Minnesota Land Cover Classification System (MLCCS) data indicates the following land <br />cover types: not planted on hydric soils, spruce and fir trees on upland soils, floodplain <br />forest, saturated graminoid vegetation, upland soils – cropland, and medium-tall grass <br />altered/non-native dominated grassland. <br /> <br />Most of the trees on the parcel are red pine, Scotch pine, and blue spruce in a row on the <br />east perimeter. Quaking aspen, American elm, hawthorn, and a bur oak are present to <br />either side of the wetland in the south portion of the lot. <br /> <br />Rare, Unique, or Significant Resources <br /> <br />A Natural Heritage Information System request was submitted to the MN DNR for the <br />entire 2005 Alternative Urban Areawide Review (AUAR), and in the subsequent updates <br />to the AUAR at 5 year intervals. These data requests identify any rare, threatened, <br />endangered, or special concern species that have been documented within one mile of the <br />area in question. <br /> <br />Blanding’s turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) have been documented within a one-mile <br />radius of the site. The DNR fact sheets on this species must be provided to all contractors