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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES MAY 16, 1989 PAGE 6 Larry Bohrer pointed out that during development you are given the opportunity to define drainage, ponding and right-of-way easements and the City is in a very good position to impose these costs on a developer. Otherwise, to improve that area with the types of ponding or other needs, the City would have to purchase the land or condemn it. Under watershed law, Bohrer explained the City has to have a drainage plan within the local plan for that part of the City that lies in the VBWD. According to Bohrer, since the VBWD Managers were amending their basic plan, Karen Chandler of Barr Eng., lead him to believe that our deadline for a Water Management Plan was not to come in the upcoming year; therefore, the City did not budget for it. Bohrer felt it would be better for the City to have a drainage plan in place when a developer comes in with an application. The City can either adopt the VBWD Plan as our plan or develop their own that would follow their basic guidelines. If the City adopts their plan, that is expedient and cheap, but it doesn't address our individual problems. In his opinion the most immediate need is the •wia�lvillage area, north of the railroad tracks. Cletus Tauer, 5270 Keats Avenue, requested consideration for RE zoning on his 40+ acres (South of Hwy 36, abutting Foxfire Estates on the West which has a 66 ft. wide road easment off of Keats Avenue). Tauer stated he has no immediate plans, but he had talked to Bruce Folz and was aware of the plan for connecting the street. Based on the health, safety and welfare issue and the possibility of the road being connected without the City incurring any expense, Councilman Hunt would support the RE zoning for the Tauer property. In trying to bring some overall criteria for RE 2 1/2 acre versus 5 acre, Councilman Williams suggested RE 5 acres rather than the proposed 2 1/2 acre of the tabletop farmland on the southside, 1/2 mile to the east of Cty Road 13B and for the area west of Cty Rd. 15 by the Oakland Jr. High School. (Planning Commission member Steve DeLapp indicated area by lining with 5 acre color code). Councilman Graves stated he would be comfortable with 5 acre RE, but with the realization that it is a Comp Plan and it can be changed if people come in and request 2 1/2 acre RE. Councilman Hunt had no problem supporting this area as 5 acre RE because he felt loth Street has become a very busy street and 2 1/2 acres of flat land is not as promising as 5 acres. neXt to Cty. Rd.15 Based on conversations he has had with these propertyowners,n Moe felt they would not be interested in developing 5 acre parcels. Councilman Williams submitted a revised Resolution for Council consideration. Williams stated "In the past he has gone on record as ( saying he is not convinced that commercial development on I-94 is necessarily in the best interest of the City. However, if the Council adopts this Future Land Use Map as a workable document, then he is committed to making that zone work as best that we can."