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1 1 1 COUNCIL MEETING APRIL 23, 1990 easements for maintenance purposes. Mr. Hawkins noted that if the City acquires the easements, then the City is legally responsible for maintenance. Mayor Bisel asked if the lots bordering the northerly pond would meet minimum requirements if the ponds were removed. Mr. Boxrud noted that these lots are almost twice as big as required so that they can contain a portion of the pond and yet meet minimum requirements. Mayor Bisel asked Mr. Boxrud if it would be more reasonable to have a homeowners association so that the City would not be responsible for maintenance problems. Mr. Hawkins noted that normally the question of maintenance of ponding is the responsibility of the City. He noted that this would be no different than what is happening in the Second Avenue area. Council Member Reinert asked why this should be handled differently than the Reshanau Lake Estates subdivision where homeowners associations were established to maintain the ponds. This method will keep the City out of ponding maintenance. Mr. Hawkins asked if the City retained an easement. The City did not retain easements in this subdivision. Council Member Reinert noted that if the City approves this preliminary plat the burden of maintaining the ponds and the liability for the ponds becomes the burden of the City. In the Reshanau Lake Estates area, the burden is on the homeowners association. Mr. Hawkins explained that the City is accepting the burden of maintaining the drainage and ponding as part of the comprehensive storm water management plan. The City has made a policy to take control of drainage. Council Member Reinert said he felt this was different from the comprehensive storm water management plan. This is created by a developer for his own particular development and the City should not take the responsibility for ponding within the development. Council Member Reinert also questioned why it was necessary to have full basements in an R -1X zone. He said he did not feel that this was a significant reason for rezoning the subdivision. Rick Carlson of Carlson - Dropps and Associates explained that the issue was not how deep the basements could be dug. He noted that R -1X requires 1100 square feet homes whereas the R -1 zone requires 980 square feet - homes. He noted the area is open, flat, with no trees and adjacent to an R -1 zoning. He felt it would be more appropriate to build R -1 sized homes in the first phase. He did propose to build R -1X homes in the easterly forty (40) acres. He noted that the only difference in lots sizes is that the frontages would be eighty (80) feet rather than ninety (90) feet. However, the lots would be over 18,000 square feet which is nearly twice the size of an R -1 lot. This makes the density one and one half (1 1/2) lots per acre. Mr. Carlson also anticipated that there would be very few full basements. He is investigating how much the ponds will lower the water table and maybe he can get more full basements in the subdivision PAGE 6