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• • Eagle Brook Church page 5 As noted in the City Engineer's memo, full hydraulic calculations have not been submitted to the city yet. Once they are submitted, the City Engineer will review the calculations to ensure that the project will not alter the existing flow capacity. Effect of the Impervious Surface On the County Ditch: The county ditch will be re- aligned. The drainage design does not route runoff from the new impervious surface into the county ditch. Runoff from the parking, building, etc., will flow through a series of facilities into a stormwater pond, then into the wetland downstream from where the ditch discharges into the wetland. The church project will not increase flow in the county ditch. Neither will the church project decrease flow through the ditch. The ditch flow rate must remain the same after the project as before. Both the Rice Creek Watershed District and the City review the drainage design to ensure it meets this requirement. Additional Landscaping, Berms, Screening: One of the conditions for a CUP for a church is that "adequate screening from abutting residential uses and landscaping is provided in compliance with Section 3, Subd. 4.Q." of the zoning ordinance. That city requirement for screening reads as follows: Screening. Where any business or industrial use (i.e., structure, parking or storage) abuts property zoned for residential use, that business or industry shall provide screening along the boundary of the residential property. Screening shall also be provided where a business or industry is across the street from a residential zone, but not on that side of a business or industry considered to be the front (as determined by the Zoning Administrator). All the fencing and screening specifically required by this Ordinance shall be subject to Section 3, Subd. 4.Q. and shall consist of either a fence or a green belt planting strip as provided for below: A green belt planting strip shall consist of vegetation and plants and shall be of sufficient width and density to provide an effective visual screen. This planting strip shall be designed to provide eighty (80) percent opacity to a minimum height of six (6) feet at time of planting. Earth mounding or berms may be used but shall not be used to achieve more than three (3) feet of the required screen. In such cases when planting strips are used in conjunction with berms designed to support plant growth, plant height may be reduced accordingly such that an eighty (80) percent visual screen of not less than six (6) feet in height is maintained. The planting plan and type of plantings shall require the approval of the City Council. Screening along the road should be considered, and should be more extensive than previously proposed. However, the front of the site is along the road. The southwest portion of the site is heavily wooded and this provides screening for property to the southwest. The new lot being created provides a buffer ranging from 200 to 350 feet in width. There are screening trees on the north of the existing house. Landscaping should focus on areas where no screening trees exist now.