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October 7, 1983 Page 2 The general map adopted by the City without the benefit of on -site inspection, showed a larger area of wetlands. Both consulting engineers for the City and the City Engineer and our consulting engineer agreed that the wetlands map should be amended to reflect these findings by the City's consulting engineers. At that meeting, the Millers presented again their plan for alteration of a small area of the agreed upon wetland area. That plan included the filling of the one acre 'wetland' in the northwest corner and the filling of approximately 11 acres in the northeast corner and south central portion of the property. The Millers would create 12 acres of new wetland, water area and wildlife habitat. Of this 12 acres, 5.5 acres will be water, approximately 6.5 acres is transitional and upland area which will now be available forever as wetland, transitional and upland wildlife habital areas and flood control areas. All of the engineers present agreed that it was more beneficial to the City to have a consolidated 31 acres of wetland and habitat area than to have a disjointed and spread out collection of small unrelated wetland and habitat areas which presently exist. 11 B. Present Status of Application 1. All present agreed that the wetlands map must be amended to reflect the agreed upon wetland area. The Council on Monday, October 10, 1983, Will set a public hearing for October 24, 1983, and will, hopefully, amend the map that evening to reflect the actual wetland boundaries on the Miller property. Concerning the 1.1 acre in the west corner of the property, the Millers believe that this area is not and should not be a 'wetland' protected by the ordinance. The Millers request that the map be amended to exclude this area. The City consulting engineer from Braun and the engineer from Barr agreed that this area served no beneficial purpose. It is too small to support wildlife and too small for flood control or water quality enhancement or water recharge. Moreover, Jim Miller proved that this area had historically drained to the north through a culvert and only because the road had been built and the culvert not maintained, was water artificially trapped on their property, to