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Planning & Zoning Board March 8, 2000 Page 3 As proposed, the Bluebill Ponds plat is designed to have Bluebill Lane as its immediate access. A Wood Duck access could be created in the future. City staff believes the present proposal should be redesigned after the negotiations with the church are settled. The redesign should address the public safety concerns of access to Main Street and create the Wood Duck intersection. The landowners also have submitted a petition for public street improvements, which would include road access to Main Street. This petition will require a decision by the City as to whether the City will undertake an eminent domain action to take property from the House of Praise Church for the Wood Duck Trail extension. Mar Don Acres is immediately south of the Bluebill Ponds site. Following the first review of Bluebill Ponds by Planning and Zoning in October 1999, several residents of Mar Don Acres informed the City that they wanted the road built along the south border of Bluebill Ponds. Staff held a neighborhood meeting on November 9,1999 to discuss this issue. Residents along the alignment of the desired road were invited, including those in Mar Don Acres, Sherwood Green, and unplatted properties to the north. Based on this meeting and follow -up calls to residents who were not at the meeting, staff found that six of eight property owners in Mar Don Acres wanted t oad. Staff directed the developer to include a road on the plat. It was noted the Environmental Board consid 29 and recommended a 50 foot buffer aro infiltration and overland runoff design wh into the design, use of native vegetati a topsoil. original application on September d the st on the east edge of the site, e, open spaces to be incorporated r around wetlands, and deep tilling of Staff recommends the public plat and supply additional i However, this would require period. If such an extension is no plat as submitted. ntinued to allow the applicant to redesign the to address the issues discussed in staff's report. ment from the applicant to continue the plat review granted, staff recommends denial of the preliminary Chair Schaps asked the applicant if he understood the situation and if he was amenable to an extension. Tom VonBische, the developer, stated he understood there were problems with the plat and he understood that this probably cannot get past the City Council if this item goes forward. However, he pointed out that the Planning Commission had not been presented all of the information about the development, and that they had been presented only facts. Chair Schaps told Mr. VonBische that a lot had to be done to this plat before it can be approved and the standard procedure in this circumstance is to grant an extension on the project, otherwise there could be a recommendation of denial given to the City Council.