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Item No. i v I�'g Staff Report No. 97C, Meeting Date: October 27, 1997 IDType of Business: PH& CB WK: Work Session;PH:Public Hearing; CA:Consent Agenda;CB:Council Business City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Mayor and City Council From: James Ericson, Planning Associate Item Title/Subject: Wetland Alteration Permit and Partial Easement Vacation Request by Good Value Homes for Lots 17 & 18, Edgewood Square (Pinewood Circle); Planning Case No. 506-97 Date of Report: October 24, 1997 Summary: John Peterson, representing Good Value Homes, Inc., has requested that the City approve a wetland alteration permit and vacate a portion of a drainage easement that covers Lots 17& 18 of Edgewood Square which was dedicated to the City as a result of the initial platting in 1982. Even though wetlands are present over parts of Lots 17 & 18 and all of Lot 19, drainage easements • were dedicated for the entirety of the three lots. This may have been done to simplify the legal descriptions of the easements. To build on the two lots, a wetland alteration permit would need to be obtained because work will be done within the City's wetland zoning district. In addition, approval is needed from the Rice Creek Watershed District. The City reviews all development that occurs within wetlands and their buffers because of the important role that wetlands play in maintaining the ecosystem and the area hydrology, in that they are critical to the present and future health, safety and general welfare of the land, animals and people within the City. Any existing and potential development within the City and the Rice Creek Watershed pose increasing economic and ecologic demands, potentially despoiling, polluting or negatively altering wetlands and their contributory function and benefit to the City. Wetland Alteration Permit Analysis: According to Chapter 1010 of the Municipal Code relating to the Wetland Zoning District and the recently-adopted Ordinance No. 602 amending Chapter 1010, any work occurring within the 100- foot buffer surrounding a wetland or within a wetland itself requires either a wetland buffer or wetland alteration permit. Because the City's official wetland zoning maps indicate that the work as proposed will be occurring within the wetland, an alteration permit reviewed and approved by the City Council is necessitated. The scope of the proposed work involves the filling and • excavation of a previously identified wetland area. In May of 1997, the applicant arranged to have the wetland delineated which is shown on the grading plan as the"worst case delineation."