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• • MEMORANDUM March 6, 2002 to: City Council from: Jeff Smyser subject: Petition for EAW: Pheasant Hills 12th Addition We have received a petition requesting the preparation of an Environmental Assessment Worksheet (EAW) for the Pheasant Hills 12th Addition project. The petitioners submitted their petition to the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board (EQB), which forwarded it to the City of Lino Lakes. This process complies with state requirements. The petition requests that the EQB act as the responsible governmental unit for the EAW. In accordance with the rules, the EQB decides which governmental unit has the greatest responsibility for supervising or approving the project as a whole. In this case, it is the City of Lino Lakes, and so the EQB forwarded the petition to us. No final decision can be made on the project until: a) the City decides no EAW is needed, or; b) the City decides an EAW is needed, and afterward decides no environmental impact statement is needed. (.0 The City must decide if an EAW should be prepared. If, because of the nature or location of the project, it may have the potential for significant environmental effects, an EAW should be prepared. If the City does not think there may be the potential for significant environmental effects, it should deny the petition. The City has 30 working days to make this decision: We received the petition February 28. This gives us until April 11. This period includes three City Council meetings: March 11, March 25, and April 8. The decision on preparing an EAW must include written findings. We typically would include findings in a City Council resolution stating the Council's decision. Staff suggests the Council discuss this issue more fully at the March 20 work session. The petition submittal includes the following: • petition with 33 signatures • letter to City Council from Quail Ridge Neighborhood, January 18, 2002 • staff report prepared by NAC, January 9, 2002 • memo from TKDA, January 4, 2002 • memo stating Environmental Board recommendations, December 20, 2001 • letter from MN Dept. of Natural Resources, September 18, 2001 • TWAAFA from Rice Creek Watershed District, September 26, 2001 • project location maps 600 Town Center Parkway, Lino Lakes, Minnesota 55014-1182 Phone: 651 - 982 -2400 • Fax: 651 - 982 -2499 • TDD: 651 - 982 -2410