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Habitat Attachment 10 shows the Level 1 Habitat from the Open Space, Parks, Trails and Greenways Plan. Level 1 habitat is areas that include protected and unique features. The level 1 habitat areas form the basis for Lino Lakes greenways. Attachment 12 shows the greenway link through this area. Pine Glen MLCCS Attachment 8 depicts the Minnesota Land Cover Classification for Pine Glen and some bordering areas. A good portion of the trees on the West side are pines, many of them Scotch Pines. This pine area has some openings with non - native grasses. Smaller areas on the West side include "other deciduous trees ", "short grasses with mixed trees" and "long grasses on upland soils ". East of the Pine area of Pine Glen and in the wetland complex area are "seasonally flooded non - native dominated vegetation" i.e. Reed canary grass, "Alder swamp ", "saturated non - native graminoid vegetation ", Boxelder, Green Ash on disturbed soils ", "Maple- Basswood forest ", "long grasses on upland soils ", and Aspen forest saturated ". The Alder swamp is very degraded with reed canary grass as the dominant vegetation. There are however small pockets of sedge meadow remnants that have a limited invasion of Reed canary grass. Opportunity exists to restore the alder/ sedge meadow areas of this wetland complex with hydrologic restoration (a long term thing). Given the banded soils, flood plain overlap on the banded soils, there are two possible places on the parcel where rare plants most likely existed at one time. These areas are depicted on Attachment 11. It appears that one of the spots is proposed for wetland mitigation where the proposed road comes through (see Attachment 1 and 11). Jason Husveth did a survey for rare plants on the site. No rare plants were found. Attachment 13 is Jason's Report. Other Unique Considerations Attachment 11 shows surrounding special concerns with rare plants and animals. The Blanding's turtle modal shows Blanding's Turtle considerations to the South of Lake Drive. Other than the two plant concern sites mentioned, there are no other known special concerns with plants and animals. A wetland delineation is shown on Attachment 3. Forest concerns The developer has submitted a tree preservation plan as Attachment 6. Basically most of all of the pine trees will be removed. Existing trees in the proposed commercial area are not identified. There is no key for the trees identified on the northern side. There are no trees identified in any of the other designated tree preservation area. Significant trees within 50 feet of soil disturbance sites must be identified. There are no indicated measures to preserve remaining trees. • • •