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• • Planning & Zoning Board July 10, 2002 Page 16 Parkland Dedication. The Park Board discussed the proposed subdivision at its February 4, 2002 meeting. The board was recommending 100% cash payment in lieu of parkland dedication. As explained in the Public Services Director's February 5, 2002 memo the proposed development lies outside the planning limits of the Comprehensive Park and Trail System Plan. The Park Board looked at several alternatives and recommended the payment in lieu as the preferred option. Floodplain. Portions of the site lie with a Flood Plain Zone A. Zone A represents areas of 100 -year flood where base flood elevations have not been determined. The City's Floodplain Management Ordinance required that all principal structures be located no lower than one foot above the regulatory flood protection elevation. The submitted grading plan identifies proposed 10 The Rice Creek Watershed District's 1998 C,t -br flood elevation for this area as 887.6. As c entirely above this elevation and all first requirements. gh Water Level elevations. dy identifies the regulatory all 1 • t pads were located the flood plain The proposal was subject to the review and app Watershed District. If the proposed sub, required to make application to FE Letter of Map Revision (LOMR) to re the proposed grading. Wetlands. The project site co proposed to be impacted by place on -site, by c have a total are the existing shallow m Engineer and Rice Creek d the Developer would be Map Amendment (LOMA) or bod Plain maps consistent with 19.39 ac etland. 2.06 acres of wetland were evelopment. The wetland mitigation would take s and three water quality ponds, which would respectively. A portion (.20 acres) of one of e converted from Type 2 wet meadow to a Type 3 ate site drainage. The developer g �osing ' stall signs, delineating the wetland edge, at property corners or where the "� w� a changes drastically within a lot. Approximately 35 to 40 signs would be insta e sign per two homes) along the wetland edge. The signs would designate the area as a protected wetland zone. The sign would also inform homeowners that moving or cutting beyond the sign was not allowed. The plans also delineate a wetland buffer easement adjacent to wetland to provide additional transition from cultured lawns to native vegetation. The developer was proposing the establishment of a Homeowner's Association to maintain all buffer areas and applicable signage. The developer should also make available to all lot purchasers a Best Management Practices/Environmental information brochure identifying purpose of buffer areas, soil and water conditions in infiltration areas, as well as limitations on use of buffer and wetland areas. The application also included a Monitoring Plan that provides for monitoring of the newly created wetlands for a 5- year period. The report would be submitted to Rice Creek Watershed District (RCWD) on a yearly basis. The RCWD was the Regulatory Government Unit (RGU) for administration of the Wetland Conservation Act.