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PROCEEDINGS OF THE MOUNDS VIEW EDA CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW RAMSEY COUNTY, MINNESOTA Regular Meeting August 8, 2005 Mounds View City Hall 2401 Highway 10, Mounds View, MN 55112 6:30 P.M. 1. CALL MEETING TO ORDER 2. ROLL CALL: President Marty; Vice President Stigney, Commissioners Flaherty, Gunn, and Thomas. NOT PRESENT: 3. APPROVAL OF AGENDA MOTION/SECOND: Thomas/Flaherty. To Approve the August 8, 2005 Agenda as presented. Ayes – 4 Nays – 0 Motion carried. 4. PUBLIC INPUT Bill Werner, 2765 Shorewood Road, stated that he has a philosophical issue that has to do with mitigation. He reviewed the dictionary definition stating that to mitigate is to make pain, grief, punishment, or the like milder, and asked how it relates to the wetlands. Director Ericson stated that in terms of wetland mitigation, the mitigation aspect relates to the fact that you are taking and replacing wetlands that are potentially lost by a development and mitigating it to a different area, the mitigation being the replacement. He further explained that in terms of making a painful situation less, you make the loss of the wetland a less of a problem by creating additional wetland in its’ place so it is termed as a mitigation. Mr. Werner asked where they would replace the wetlands, in the City, the County or the State. He clarified that the location where it would be replaced would matter. Commissioner Flaherty explained that mitigation could be done either on the site or where the development would go noting that it could be anywhere within the City or County. He explained that typically the City tries to mitigate within the site itself. He further explained that if a parcel of land is developed and water needs to be moved they try to mitigate within the development itself.