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APPROVED COUNCIL MINUTES DECEMBER 9, 2002 •1 turn lanes) which are subject to comment and recommendation by the City Engineer and the Anoka 2 County Highway Department. 3 4 Community Development Director Grochala stated he will contact Anoka County tomorrow to see 5 where they are at in their review. 6 7 Councilmember Reinert asked if this business will be connected to City sewer and water. Community 8 Development Director Grochala answered in the affirmative. 9 10 Councilmember Reinert asked about manhole use. 11 12 Community Development Director Grochala explained that the sanitary sewer trunk line runs up old 13 Fourth Avenue, between the school property and this site. He reviewed the alignment for the utilities 14 and explained the general location. He advised that the depth was inadequate on the east side of Lake 15 Drive to service this property so the sanitary sewer will be extended across the School District 16 property to serve this site as well as adjacent properties. He noted a letter has been received 17 indicating the School District's willingness to provide those easements. Community Development 18 Director Grochala stated the City will require that document in hand prior to commencement of 19 construction activities. 20 21 Councilmember Reinert stated his brother owned a car wash and was required to have some kind of 22 recycling or filtration system. He asked if that may be an issue since this car wash has ten bays and • 23 will be flushing a lot of soapy water. Councilmember Reinert stated the Council has only had a few 24 days to look at this application and he does not know enough about that aspect of the project. He 25 stated this appears to be a very nice project but the Council is usually slow but deliberate with 26 approvals. He stated he wished this could have been reviewed at a work session when more 27 discussion could have taken place. He asked what the timing is of this project. 28 29 Community Development Director Grochala stated the application has been in for several months so 30 it is close to the end of the 120 day review period. 31 32 Councilmember Reinert noted there is a work session in two days and another Council meeting next 33 on Monday so the process could be expedited somewhat. He asked if other Councilmembers would 34 support more time for review. 35 36 Mayor Bergeson asked if a one-week delay would cause a problem for the applicant. 37 38 Mr. Benkler stated it would not cause a problem. He introduced Terry Landeen whose specialty is 39 installation of car wash equipment. 40 41 Councilmember Reinert stated the pictures are of a fairly new car wash facility and asked if it uses a 42 water recycling system. Mr. Benkler stated it is a new facility and does not have a water recycling 43 system. • 44 17