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2 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes June 10, 2014 Page 2 2 A. Resolution 14-042• a Resolution Approving a Request to Keep Five (5) Female Chickens 3 in an R-1 Zoning District at 3520 Edward Street. Mark Casey, City Manager, presenting. 4 5 City Manager Casey presented the applicant's request to keep five chickens in their yard and 6 introduced Valentina and Alexander Poletz. 7 8 Ms. Poletz stated they would like to keep chickens in their yard and they have a plan for housing 9 the chickens as noted in their written request. 10 11 Councilmember Stille reminded the applicants that when chickens are chicks they might not 12 know if they are females or roosters and cautioned the applicants to have a plan for managing the 13 chickens if it turns out they are roosters. 14 15 Ms. Poletz stated she understood they would not be able to keep any roosters. 16 17 Motion by Councilmember Roth, seconded by Councilmember Jenson, to adopt Resolution 14- 18 042; a Resolution to Approve a Request to Keep Five (5) Female Chickens in an R-1 Zoning 19 District at 3520 Edward Street. 20 21 Motion carried unanimously. 22 23 B. Resolution 14-043; a Resolution of Intent to Amend the Petition for the New Brighton/St 24 Anthony Basic Water Management Project Rice Creek Watershed District Proiect 2013- 25 01, to allow Implementation of Minor Lake and Hansen Park Project Components 26 without Delay, to Acknowledge the Allocation of Local Project Costs for the Minor Lake 27 and Hansen Park Project Components, to Allow Proceedingto o Project Phase 2 & 3 for 28 other Project Components, to Consent to the Addition of the City of Roseville as an 29 Additional Petitioner for the Basic Water Manaizement Project and Authorizing 30 Amended Petition. Phil Belfiori and Kyle Axtell Rice Creek Watershed District and 31 Todd Hubmer. WSB & Associates, presenting. 32 33 City Engineer Hubmer explained that following the 2011 flood event, the cities of St. Anthony 34 and New Brighton prepared flood investigation reports and subsequently petitioned the Rice 35 Creek Watershed District for improvements to Ramsey County Ditches 2, 3, and 5. He stated the 36 City of Roseville has requested to be added to the petition because it has experienced flooding in 37 the system and has land in a significant portion of the watershed. He stated the Rice Creek 38 Watershed District's engineers concurred that two project improvements would provide a 39 multitude of benefits related to flooding as well as water quality in Long Lake and Pike Lake and 40 advised that a $3 million grant has been secured from the Board of Water & Soil Resources to 41 implement the projects at Hansen Park in New Brighton and Mirror Lake in St. Anthony. He 42 then introduced Mr. Phil Belfiori and Mr. Kyle Axtell from Rice Creek Watershed District. 43 44 Mr. Belfiori thanked the City on behalf of Rice Creek Watershed District staff and the Rice 45 Creek Watershed District Board of Managers for the City's leadership and assistance in working 46 together on these projects. He provided background information regarding the Long Lake 47 targeted watershed demonstration project and the Ramsey County Ditch project and stated that in 48 2009, the Hansen Park and Mirror Pond projects were listed as high priority projects. He stated