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• • • AGENDA ITEM 7 C STAFF ORIGINATOR: Jeff Smyser C. C. MEETING DATE: April 14, 2003 TOPIC: Resolution 03 -44: Negative Declaration On The Need For An Environmental Impact Statement Eagle Brook Church VOTE REQUIRED: 3/5 BACKGROUND An Environmental Assessment Worksheet (EAW) prepared for the Eagle Brook Church has undergone public review. The City received comments and staff distributed a draft response document on March 19. The next step is for the City Council to make a declaration on the need for an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). For reasons discussed in the response document and summarized in this report, staff is recommending a negative declaration: a decision that an EIS is not justified. The responses in the response document should be revised or corrected as necessary before distribution. The decision resolution and the response document will be sent to all agencies on the EAW distribution list and to everyone who sent in comments on the EAW. ANALYSIS The main issues raised by the EAW or in comments on the EAW relate to the following: heron rookery wetlands traffic and roadways wastewater stormwater management visual issues Minnesota Rule 4410.1700, Subpart 7 lists the criteria to be considered to determine if a project has the potential for significant environmental effects —that is, if an EIS is warranted. 4410.1700 DECISION ON NEED FOR EIS. Subpart 1. Standard for decision on need for EIS. An EIS shall be ordered for projects that have the potential for significant environmental effects. Subp. 7. Criteria. In deciding whether a project has the potential for significant environmental effects, the following factors shall be considered: A. type, extent, and reversibility of environmental effects; B. cumulative potential effects of related or anticipated future projects; C. the extent to which the environmental effects are subject to mitigation by ongoing public regulatory authority; and