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• Agenda Item 5A Environmental Board Meeting Date: Topic: Oakwood View, 125 Ash Street (Rice Creek Covenant Church), Preliminary Plat/PUD, Comp Plan Amendment, Rezone, and Easement Vacation Background: Rice Creek Covenant Church has submitted application to plat and build 10 single family lots, and one enabling lot with a duplex residence, on 16.96 acres of land. This 16.96 acres of land includes the existing church facility that is built on about 7.28 acres. The property is zoned R1 -X. The church is proposing to plat the property to R -1X (low density sewered residential), and PUD on the South. The following attachments are included in this report: 1. Preliminary Plat of Oakwood View 2. Certificate of Survey and Tree Inventory of Oakwood View 3. Oakwood View Preliminary Grading Plan 4. Oakwood View Preliminary Utility Plan 5. MLCCS 6. Indicators, Possible Rare Plant Sites Analysis: Site Vegetation: • Tree cover is surveyed and superimposed on the certificate of survey. Tree cover mapping should be superimposed on the proposed grading plan. The City Ordinance (Section 1009) for tree preservation should be followed. This ordinance defines the process for preserving significant trees and is required of subdividers. The ordinance mandates financial guarantee as part of the development agreement to prepare and implement a tree preservation plan and for the replacement of all significant trees, which were to be saved but were actually destroyed or damaged. The developer should indicate on the grading plan how and where all significant trees or tree stands would be saved from construction damage. • Minnesota Land Cover Classification (MLCCS) is not submitted with the plan. Glen Rehbein companies have previously been given a digital copy of this classification. The MLCCS shows mostly Aspen forest cover types, with grasslands and sparse deciduous trees. Some of this grassland is native Little blue stem with sporadic Bush prairie clover. Please see Attachment 5. One of the things that we have learned from our MLCCS classification is that of recognizing rare or possible rare plant community locations. These locations are based on specific soil, vegetation and hydrology indicators. We