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-3- <br />Mrs. Larson reported that they did a good job of patrolling and worked over the <br />weekend. <br />MSP (Hodges- Baumgartner) to recess the regular meeting and call the special <br />hearing to order to consider subdivision request of Keith Harstad for <br />Greenfield Plat No. 3. 3 ayes <br />Mr. Harstad presented his preliminary plat to Council and explained the parcel <br />was bounded by Bona Road on the west, County Road 1 110 feet south of the south <br />boundary, east side is Edgewood Drive. The street is completed but sewer and <br />water was installed in the early 1960's. North side of property abuts Lund's <br />Second Addition. It is a relatively small plat with 16 lots, 90 X 130' is the <br />smallest lot, there are a couple lots at 105 X 130'. <br />He said an easement is planned through the center of the plat in an east /west <br />direction. Another easement north and south extends only to the center. He <br />suggests this easement be extended and the east /west easement be increased another <br />ten feet. The plat shows ten feet on the two 105 foot lots. There is no objection <br />on his part to this. He said he started on this plat a couple years ago and he <br />got in a tither about the park fund dedication. Now he feels it was rather <br />childish on his part, so he has decided to pursue the platting again. He said he <br />shows a ditch in the central part of the map on the east /west easement with a <br />projected culvert 100 feet through the center of the plat. <br />He said the front yard should have a ditch and conduit. He does not want to <br />have water problems either. <br />He asked that the east /west conduit be left open. He thinks that Rice Creek <br />Watershed prefers it left open and it should be landscaped and designed <br />better than if it were closed. <br />Lots 6,5,4,3 have undesireable soil that has to be removed and he plans to fill <br />because they are relatively low. He envisions some kind of split entry walkout. <br />Mr. Harstad said he realized that he would not be able to have full basements in <br />this area because of the water table. <br />He said he agreed there should be a ditch in the front and there is some concern <br />that if he plats this the way it is, he will abandon Lots 4, 5, and 6. <br />He said he felt the Planning Commission had the two things confused: one is the <br />platting and the other is the installation of Edgewood Drive. They asked <br />for a front ditch on Edgewood Drive. He has not done it because he feels this <br />is an engineering function. <br />If the street is a problem it will be assessed against the property. He <br />doesn't think the street has to be part of the approval of <br />the plat and if it is, he still wants the street anyway, but is concerned right now <br />with the platting. <br />Councilman Hodges said if the sewer and water went in we must have some record <br />on the type of soil that is there. <br />Mr. Harstad felt that the soil wasn't a singularly oppressive problem due to <br />the fact that sewer and water went in without piling. <br />He said he did some soil tests before he purchased the land and is willing to <br />subject himself to any kind of an agreement. <br />Engineer Bearden commented that he had spoken to Mr. Harstad at 3 p.m. He said <br />the water went in in 1960 and sanitary sewer in 1965. Mr. Bearden said he did <br />not find any soil borings on record but the people who worked on the project <br />remembered there was a lot of peat. <br />Mr. Harstad said that the tests he took before he bought the land revealed <br />that the land around Hillview is not bad and around the wellhouse the land <br />is very good. The land on the other side of the street roughly 400 feet has <br />bad soil. <br />Councilman Shelquist said the original request was to surface Greenfield so he <br />had referred it to the Planning Commission because Mr. Harstad had been before <br />