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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES JULY 16, 1985 Page 4 29 North, Range 21 West, City of Lake Elmo, Mn. (Motion carried 4-0). B. Public Hearing for variance to drainfield setback, and petition for road vacation. Applicant: David Strusinski Pursuant to published notice, ThiS Public, hearing opened at 7:48 p.m. in the City Council Chambers. The City Engineer stated that on May 21, 1985 Mr. Strusinski received approval of a lot size variance and Shoreland Permit for his property in Lane's DeMontreville Country Club on Hill Trail Court. The approval was contingent upon providing satisfactory septic system design. Mr. Strusinski has conducted the soil tests and now find that he cannot construct a septic system with an alternate drainfield without the street vacation. Therefore, he is petitioning to vacate that portion of Dempsey Avenue right-of-way immediately north of his property and that portion of Argyle Street immediately east of his property. If the vacation is approved, he is also requesting a septic system sideyard setback variance of five feet where ten feet is required. The City Engineer stated that the street vacation should be considered in light of the City's potential plans for improving Hill Trail Court. Presently, there is a forty foot wide public right-of-way but the road has not been improved to City standard nor is it maintained by the City. Since this is the last lot to be built on in the area and the road will essentially be used in the same manner as it is presently, the consensus of the Council was they had no objections to the street vacation. M/S/P - Morgan/Christ - to adopt resolution 85-24 vacating that portion of Demsey Avenue right-of-way immediately north of his property and that portion of Argyle Street immediately east of his property. (Motion carried 4-0). M/S/P - Morgan/Armstrong - to grant a septic system setback variance for five feet where ten feet is required. (Motion carried 4-0). C. Surface Water Update City Engineer Bohrer reviewed his preliminary findings for the 1985 Auxiliary Pumping Program planned to be conducted on Lake Jane, for which a public hearing is scheduled for July 24, 1985. Bohrer distributed a summary of the results of investigations in and around the Shafer Gravel Pit. He stated that a perched water condition exists at the gravel pit. Underlying layers of silt and clay between ten and forty feet in thickness are maintaining a perched water table at about elevation 925.5 and there is standing water in the pit that reflects this condition. By contrast, the water table in the landfill, is about elevation 900.0. The amount of storage available is only that interval