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City Council Special Meeting Minutes November 29, 1994 • Page 5 1 WHEREAS, the City Council specifically finds that: 2 3 1. Apache Plaza has been present for more than twenty years; 4 2. No additional impervious surface area.will be added as part of the 5 renovations; 6 3. The construction work itself is not expected to have an environmental 7 effect; 8 4. Stormwater run-off management efforts to be undertaken by the proposer 9 as part of the renovation will improve environmental quality in the vicinity 10 of the project as compared to the existing conditions, as described in the 11 November 28, 1994 Barr Engineering Co. Memorandum; 12 5. Any impacts are minimized by the limited degree of magnitude of the 13 project in that Apache Plaza will be reduced (not increased) in size by this 14 project; 15 6. Maintenance operations by Apache Plaza, Ltd. described in the Stormwater 16 System Maintenance Agreement will reduce or eliminate impacts over time 17 during the life of the project; 18 7. Related future renovations or repairs have been taken into account and will 19 be mitigated by stormwater run-off management efforts described in the 20 November 28, 1994 Barr Engineering Co. memorandum; other future projects are not currently anticipated; and 8. The City of St. Anthony, Rice Creek Watershed District, and the 23 Minnesota Pollution Control Agency will retain regulatory authority to 24 ,address any future water quality issues in relation to Silver Lake and the 25 watershed associated with Apache Plaza. 26 27 As a record of its decision, the City Council includes the following information: this 28 resolution, the plans, the November 28, 1994 Barr Engineering Co. memorandum, the 29 Stormwater.System Maintenance Agreement, the EAW petition, and all testimony and 30 materials submitted at the City Planning commission meeting of November 15, 1994 and 31 City Council meetings of November 22, 1994 and November 29, 1994. 32 33 WHEREAS, because the ordinances of the City of St. Anthony, together 34 with the required review and permitting processes of other agencies, including, but 35 not limited to the Rice Creek Watershed District, provide the necessary review 36 regulation and protection or mitigation measures to evaluate the appropriateness 37 of the proposed Apache Plaza renovation, the City Council has determined that 38 an EAW is unnecessary. 39 40 NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City of St. Anthony, 41 Minnesota, acting as the duly appointed RGU, hereby denies the Petition of an 42 EAW for the Apache Plaza renovation and directs the City Clerk to notify in 0 44 writing the proposer, the EQB, and counsel for petitioners of this decision.