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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES APRIL 5, 1988 PAGE 9 Councilwoman Armstrong disagreed with Folz and explained that -the eap€ie}d-apgment-€a}}�-ade�-na-hemp-rainstorms under certain heavy rain - conditions you are going to get runoff off the cornfield that will storm amount to what he was talking about. Everyday that it rains in the development you are going to get impervious driveway and rooftops that the water will run straight off of here --it doesn't matter what the conditions are. It is not true that there will always be more runoff from a farmland because you get alot of water saturated into the cornfield --but it always run offs the impervious driveways and rooftops. Bruce Folz had talked to Nels Nelson who stated the VBWD ordered the waterplan study, allowing'$6000 to be spent on the study, and should be completed the second Thursday in July. Folz felt even though we have heard the comments and concerns from the people, the Council should note that there is no flooding on Downs Lake or on Eden Park Pond. The Pond is about 8 feet below flood level. Councilman Moe suggested the City Staff should look into the statement that the Voge residence was built in the drainage easement. M/S/P Graves/Johnson - to table the request pending the final report for the VBWD as to an action plan they have to control the water level in the Downs Lake Area. The Staff will review this report and then the request will be put on the Council agenda. (Motion carried 5-0). M/S/P Johnson/Graves - to recommend the Building Official tabulate an inventory of buildable lots in the city and to have the Planning Commission review it. (Motion carried 5-0). D. Report from City Engineer on City's recent adoption of Appendix Chapter 38 of UBC. At the previous City Council meeting, City Engineer Larry Bohrer was instructed to determine if the Old Village water system can sypport automatic fire sprinkler systems. Bohrer reported in his letter dated April 1, 1988 that the previous City Building Code required sprinkling or alternative construction methods for fire control. Amended Appendix Chapter 38 requires sprinkling and elminates the use of alternatives. The Amendment would apply city-wide. The discussion about sprinkling have centered on the Old Village, but there are areas outside the Old Village already zoned GB, HB, or P that would require sprinkling. The Old Village water system could not directly supply sprinkling demands to all of the uses that already exist in the Old Village, but it does not have to. Each individual building owner would be required to construct his own private facilities to supplement the City's supply to meet th NFPA requirements. Adopting Amended Appendix Chapter 38 does not require the City to supply the water. If the municipality or a private well (if building is in the rural area) cannot deliver the quantity of water required in NFPA 13, then the building must obtain its own reservoir and/or