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• • • Memo Environmental To: Paul Bengtson From: Marty Asleson Date: April 6, 2006 Re: March 29, 2006 Environmental Board Recommendations The February 22, 2006 Environmental Board made the following recommendations for the Legacy Townhomes: Landscaping • Several changes should be made to the plant schedule. Recommend changing Sunburst Honeylocust to straight thornless Honeylocust. Sugar maples will not do well in the sandy soils of Woods Edge. Red or Sunburst maples should be substituted for the Sugar maples. Americanna /native (Redmond) Lindens should be substituted for the Cordata /non native (Greenspire) Lindens. European larch should be changed to the native Eastern Larch. Ponderosa pine should be changed to native White Pine or Red Pine. The area to the east of impervious areas and bordering the basin area (trail location area) should be planted with native Eastern Larch in the wet to mesic soils, and white oak with Red oak in the upland areas. • Conservation Easement areas should be planted with the City Native Seed mix • Top soil note in the landscape plan. Should read "all areas disturbed by construction activities except for native specified seed areas should have 4 inches of loam top soil thourghly incorporated into the subsoil and seeded or sodded..." Again, where native plants are specified, no topsoil shall be specified. • Raingarden and infiltration basins...should read "shall receive the City specified native seed mix." • Under the Sodding Installation Notes, should read "4 inches of top soil should be thouroughly incorporated into the subsoil." Areas to receive sod should not be fertilized with a 10 -10 -10 fertilizer. A starter fertilizer with "0" phospherous must be used. • Page 1