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Bill , Cherie and Lauren Wilson 2396 Pinewood Circle N.E. • Mounds View, Minnesota 55112 Home: (612) 784-7145 Work: (612) 298-6247 May 23 , 1992 Mounds View City Counsel Mounds View City Hall 2401 Highway 10 Mounds View, Minnesota 55112 Dear City Counsel Members : You will soon receive from the Mounds View Planning Commission ; the Commissions findings and recommendation regarding the proposed development request by Harstad Companies . Harstad Companies desires to build single family homes on the property located east of Edgewood Drive , north of County Road I , south of Hillview Road and east of St . Michael street . This property is well defined in the City of Mounds View wetlands ordinance and is a necessary part of flood control , water quality and wildlife management for the area . I have attended two of the Mounds View Planning Commissions • meetings where Harstad Companies has presented there proposed development . As a suggestion I would recommend that the City Counsel accept the recommendation of the Planning Commission . I make this suggestion without knowing the Planning Commission ' s final recommendation to the City Counsel . The Planning Commission has demonstrated a high level of professionalism and knowledge of housing developments at the two meetings I attended . I believe that every member of the Planning Commission has Mounds Views ' best interest at heart and that the Planning Commission will make the best decision possible regarding the proposed development . As a personal opinion ; I can not agree with the re-drawing - - - . . ordinance allows for some development of the property around the wetland and the Mounds View Planning Commission has been very responsible when allowing land usage within the 100 foot buffer area around the wetlands ; the proposed development is founded on a loop hole in the ordinance . The "no net loss of wetland area" portion of the wetland ordinance was (I believe ) intended to guard the wetland areas as they now exist . ( I purchased my house believing that the wetland boundaries were well identified and that the boundaries had some value . ) The literal moving of the wetland area , from where they now stand to another area of the same size does not guard the wetlands . Instead it makes wetlands a commodity that can be packaged and transported at will . I do not believe that the wetland ordinance was written with the intention that large land owners could redraw the wetland boundaries .