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• Agenda Item 5A Environmental Board Meeting Date: July 15, 2004 Topic: EAW Review /Responses to Comments /Pheasant Hills Preserve 12 Background: The Lino Lakes Environmental Board reviewed PHP 12 EAW on July 30, 2003. The EAW is included as Attachment 1. Environmental Board comments from the meeting are included as Attachment 2. The City responses to outside regulatory review comments were not available at the time of Environmental Board review. In addition, the EAW was lacking relevant information concerning the design, appearance, and construction concerns of the bridge structure that is needed to access the island. The developer has answered construction questions and submitted drawings of the proposed bridge. Subsequent to these final issues addressed by the developer, City responses to the PHP 12, EAW report were prepared and are included with this report as Attachment 3. The purpose of this agenda item is to review and comment on the City responses to the regulatory comments, and make a declaration recommendation on the EAW for Pheasant Hills Preserve 12th Addition. A negative declaration means, that there are no findings that would imply that this project would need to proceed to an Environmental Impact Statement. The Environmental Board has previously recommended that this project be denied because of inconsistency with statewide standards for the management of shoreland areas, or the City of Lino Lakes Shoreland Management Plan. This recommendation is separate and distinct from the notion of the EAW decree. Analysis: Staff Response is presented in Attachment 3. Options: Positive or negative declaration. Recommendation: It is very rare that a project of this scope would enter an environmental impact statement phase. I can see no reason to make this a recommendation at this time. I believe the developer has agreed to most all of the concerns and suggestions of the Environmental Board. The infiltration ponds and infiltration capacity may still need to be addressed. The degree of visual impacts is difficult to weigh. With that, it is a staff recommendation that a negative declaration be declared. . Attachments: 1. EAW Pheasant Hills Preserve 12