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Agenda Item 5A Environmental Board Meeting Date: January 29, 2003 Topic: Living Waters Lutheran Church /Site Plan Review /CUP Background: Living Waters Lutheran Church is located at 625 Birch Street. Please see (Attachment 1), Base Map and MLCCS. Also enclosed is the Site Plan (Attachment 2). Application and approval to build /CUP for Living Waters Lutheran Church occurred in April 1993. The new application submitted by Living Waters Lutheran Church is to build an addition on to the existing building to build a new sanctuary. Although the proposed building meets all Lakeshore set back requirements, The building site is approximately 160 feet from a banded PEM /SS1C and PEMF wetland bordering the Lake, and 600 to 700 feet from the Lake. These wetlands generally start at the existing tree line, and extend to Reshanau Lake. The wetland soils are shown in (Attachment 4). Surface water flows through these wetlands. Please see digital Elevation Model (Attachment 5). This area is not included in a Lake Protection Zone. However, there is protection Zones 1 and 2 on the lakeside of the property (Attachment 6). Originally, this area was surveyed as Lake. See (Attachment 7). The Church site is just inside an area classified by the Anoka County Ground Water Model as Very Sensitive to ground water pollution (Attachment 8). There is an existing 0.16 acres of proposed new impervious. This would make the total site impervious 1.62 acres. Two trees are proposed for removal. One tree is a 3" maple and the other is a 6" maple. The church is proposing to replace these trees with two 2.5" maples and one 6' spruce tree. Additional Sugar maples and Black hills spruce are proposed for screening the residential area to the East. An existing church spire will be moved on the site. The spire is 40 to 45 feet tall. There is no additional lighting proposed for the church.