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• • • STAFF ORIGINATOR: CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: TOPIC: ACTION REQUIRED: BACKGROUND AGENDA ITEM 6C Michael Grochala November 9, 2009 Consider Resolution No. 09 -91, Authorizing Execution of Professional Services Agreement with Bonestroo for Update of Official Controls Simple Majority In February of 2009 the City of Lino Lakes was selected as a recipient of a Community Conservation Assistance Grant from the Minnesota Department of Natural resources' (DNR) Metro Greenways Program. The purpose of the matching grant program is to assist local governments with the integration of natural resources information and data into local development and conservation plans and policy decisions. DNR's Metro Greenways Program is especially interested in supporting local efforts that seek to address challenges associated with the conservation of remaining natural habitats in rapidly changing communities. The City has received a grant award in the amount of $25,000 to assist with the development and updating ordinances to address environmentally sensitive areas, storm water management, integrated tree preservation and landscaping requirements, planned unit development (PUD), low impact development (LID) and conservation subdivision design. The grant does required a matching cash /in kind contribution. The Community Development budget includes $30,000 for professional services to revise ordinances as part of the Comprehensive Plan update implementation. Bonestroo Inc., has submitted a proposal to assist the city with this update process for a not to exceed amount of $55,000. Services will be paid on an hourly basis for time incurred. The City Council tabled consideration of the proposal at the October 26, 2009 meeting pending further explanation of Low Impact Development (LID) practices. LID is an environmentally sensitive approach to stormwater management that seeks to manage rainfall where it falls using decentralized, small -scale controls that are integrated into a site's landscape features. LID's goal is to mimic a site's predevelopment hydrology by using design techniques that infiltrate, filter, store, evaporate, and detain runoff close to its source. Techniques are based on the premise that stormwater management should not be seen as stormwater disposal. Instead of conveying and managing / treating stormwater in large, costly end -of -pipe facilities located at the bottom of drainage areas, LID addresses stormwater through small, cost - effective landscape features located at the lot level.