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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES MAY 2, 1989 PAGE 8 hereby authorized to work with the Washington County Parks Department, affected property owners and U.S. Olympic Festival Committee representatives to work out details for a successful U.S. Olympic Festival event and request that the Olympic Festival Committee and Washington County look into providing additional traffic control enforcement during this period of time. (Motion carried 4-0). 9. DISCUSSION: White Hat Fill Permit At the last City Council meeting, the Council voted to direct the staff and the City Attorney to notify Ed Gorman to suspend all fill operations until his site plan is considered and approved by the City Council. Ed Gorman advised the Council of his recollection of the Sept. 20, 1988 City Council meeting. He first requested 30,000 cu.yds of fill, but City Engineer Larry Bohrer felt this would be too much fill. Ed explained he needed an area 250' by 8' deep which Bohrer calculated out to be 20,000 cu.yds. of fill. His interpretation of this meeting was the Council granted him a fill permit for 20,000 cu.yds. of fill. with further review in the spring, and that granting this permit did not give approval to add buildings and there should be no rerouting of drainage. He referred to the letter he received from Administrator Morrison with a copy of the draft motion. Mr. Gorman brought up the City Engineer had noted that the fill did not affect the drainage and Ed believes the 20,000 cu.yds. will not interfere with the drainage. He added, what causes the water to run towards that area is the 1 1/2 acre that the City took from him and the elevation had been raised. It goes from the Schiltgen field to downtown and drops almost 8' in some areas. Councilman Williams asked Mr. Gorman what was preventing him from spreading some of the dirt right now. Mr. Gorman answered;'his drainfield, and the further he spreads the fill, it will be approaching out into the property, then you could have erosion:' If you cannot spread any more of the dirt, Williams asked, how can you bring in more dirt. Gorman responded the permit was for stockpiling, it is not to be spread. When asked where his drainfield would eventually wind up, Gorman answered, it would go into the area toward the Lohman house, not into the fill area, but he cannot do this now because of the legal situation he is in with the City and he cannot get financing. Councilman Graves asked Gorman if he could bring in a concept plan in order to initiate the process. Graves addressed the sensitivity that has been generated on the part of the City Council because of other experiences where additional fill was permitted to be brought in elsewhere within the community. Gorman answered this would mean getting his architect back on the payroll, and he was not prepared to give them an answer because this all relies on the lawsuit with the City. Graves commented that Ed could explain his plan better than an architect and asked him, if the concept plan that he previously brought into the City had not changed significantly, to bring it before the PZ. Ed responded, "he wanted to go back to the PZ, but