09/29/2021 Environmental Board Minutes

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Environmental Board September 29, 2021 Page 2 APPROVED MINUTES VI. ACTION ITEMS A. Belland Farms and Associate Eye Care Partners Preliminary Plat & Site Plan Mr. Nelson presented the staff report to the Environmental Board. The applicant, Rehbein Properties, submitted a land use application for a Preliminary Plat and Site Plan Review. The preliminary plat involves subdividing an 18 acre parcel into two platted lots, two outlots, a stormwater pond, and one new road. The site plan review is for a proposed medical office building offering eye care services. The 12,320 square foot building will be placed on a 1.72 acre lot. The staff report included analysis of the site’s characteristics including land cover, rare, unique, or significant resources, soils, stormwater management and pollution protection, and Alternative Urban Areawide Review considerations. It also included a landscape plan that included tree preservation and mitigation standards, open area landscape standards, and buffer and screening standards among others. Staff recommended the Belland Farms Preliminary Plat and Associated Eye Care Partners Site Plan Review be forwarded to the Planning and Zoning Board and City Council with the following comments and any additional comments from the Environmental Board: 1. Additional (5) inlet protections must be added on Main Street along the southern border of the property to catch tracked sediment. 2. Undesirable tree species do not have to be mitigated for. Removals of a 22” and 8” ash will not require mitigation trees to be planted. The total number of replacement trees required is 24. This should be updated on the Tree Preservation Plan. 3. Canopy cover standards have not been met. The three trees on the western edge of the stormwater basin can be moved closer to the hardscape or the parking stalls can be added which would require recalculation of the hardscape and canopy cover totals. 4. 34 more shrubs will be required to meet open space standards. 5. White pine (Pinus strobus) should be switched for a species with better pollution tolerance. 6. Native seed mix should be used for the southeast corner of the site in the low runoff area connecting to the culvert. 7. Blanding’s turtle flyer and factsheet shall be distributed to all contractors working on the site. 8. MnDOT type 3N or 4N bio-netting or natural netting erosion control blanket should be used where blanket is necessary for stabilization. Ms. Cavegn inquired about the how the process behind purchasing wetland credits works. Mr. Nelson responded with an explanation of how wetland banks are established, citing Wollan Park, a city-owned wetland bank as an example. When wetland banks are established, credits are available for sale to developments when projects impact wetlands.