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Agenda Item 5A • Environmental Board Meeting Date: September 26, 2012 Topic: Bill's Superette Location: NE Corner of Lake Drive and Main Street. Background: This is an environmental review of a land use request submitted on September 10, 2012. The application submitted by Grant Rademacher is a request for site plan approval for preliminary plat and a CUP for a gas station. The parcel is classified as commercial property. Analysis: • Land Cover Bill's Superette sits on a site that is classified as" Oak Woodland- Brushland ". Scattered oaks among Box Elder and Ash are prevalent on the South and West sides of the parcel. The rest of the parcel, except for qualified significant Hackberry and Box elder on the East side of the property, include a mixture of suckering Box elder, Raspberry, Prickly Ash, and Common Buckthorn. • Rare and Unique Resources There are no rare or endangered indicators on the site. NHIS data shows nothing within at least 1/2 mile from this site. • Wetlands There are no wetlands on -the site, therefore no WACA considerations. There is a RCWD catch basin holding area on the very south tip of the site. • Surface Water/Ponds The Rice Creek Watershed District has determined the application to be incomplete. The applicant must meet the District rules C, D, and RMP -3. The rule states that in addition to the BMP's required under the rule, volume control measures are required reducing runoff by at least the volume from 0.5 inches of rainfall over impervious surfaces. Volume reduction under this part of the rule may be achieved only by measures described in the document. Those measures are: Reestablishment of effectively drained wetlands and floodplain meadows, upland restoration conservation, restoration of degraded wetlands, impervious disconnection, soil amendments /tilling. The applicant must meet this requirement. Other requirements are listed in (Attachment 2). •