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• • Agenda Item 5A Environmental Board Meeting Date: August 2, 2006 Topic: Comforts of Home /PUD Development Background: The Comforts of Home proposal is located on the NW Corner of Hodgson Road and County Road J. It is an approximately 17 acre project proposal. The existing land -use is mixed -use, and it is proposed to have mixed -use. The applicant proposes a PUD for the site. Analysis: Land Cover The MLCCS is included as Attachment 4. The land consists of Aspen forest in the NW corner, upland soils with planted, maintained or cultivated, long grasses and sparse tree coverage on hydric soils, and grassland with sparse conifer or mixed deciduous /coniferous trees. The Aspen forest area is highly impacted with glossy buckthorn and garlic mustard. The grass land plant communities have spotty butterfly grass and blue joint clumps. Wetlands The wetland delineation report is included as Attachment 17. The isolated wetland area delineated on the site is inundated with glossy buckthorn and garlic mustard. It is recommended that that the developer be responsible for all noxious plant removals on the property. The preliminary utility plan has the wetland labeled with "Temporary Wetland Impact Permit Required." Temporary Wetland impact permits are sometimes given when a utility is proposed to run through a wetland. In this case, existing soils are lifted up and placed back down over a pipe. Care should be given to ensuring a minimum disturbance and that the existing soils are indeed placed back on top of the pipe. City native seed mix used to restore disturbed infiltration, pond, wetland, and infiltration swale areas. Rare and Unique Resources There are no recorded rare, threatened or endangered species on this site. Our computer wildlife model does not indicate anything on this site. Attachment 16 shows a small amount of what we were calling Level 1 Habitat in the open space plan. This is in the area of the delineated wetland on the site. Once the