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701 Xenia Avenue South | Suite 300 | Minneapolis, MN 55416 | (763) 541-4800 <br /> <br />Building a legacy – your legacy. <br />Equal Opportunity Employer | wsbeng.com <br />S:\1Council Meetings\2017\02142017\Memo - EIS.docx <br /> <br />Memorandum <br /> <br />To: Honorable Mayor and City Council, City of Saint Anthony Village <br /> Mark Casey, City Manager <br /> <br /> <br />From: Breanne Rothstein, WSB & Associates, Inc. <br /> Alison Harwood, WSB & Associates, Inc. <br /> <br />Date: February 14, 2017 <br /> <br />Re: The Village, LLC Redevelopment <br /> Environmental Assessment Worksheet <br /> WSB Project No. 2170-380 <br /> <br /> <br />An Environmental Assessment Worksheet (EAW) is a statutorily required document for large projects that <br />provides analysis about a project’s impacts to specific environmental, water resource, transportation, and <br />other impacts. The analysis in an EAW is used to determine if an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) <br />is required for a proposed project. An EIS is required for a project with “potential for significant <br />environmental effects”. An EIS provides more information only about the potentially significant <br />environmental impacts for the categories that the EAW identified as potentially being significantly <br />impacted by the project. Any categories not covered in an EAW would also not be covered in an EIS. <br />An EAW or EIS is not a means to approve or disapprove a project. These documents provide information <br />to inform an approval or denial decision at a later date. Once an EAW or EIS is completed, a project can <br />proceed to the land use review process and proceed with obtaining a variety of other permits needed. <br />The information contained in an EAW or EIS can be used by permitting agencies to determine the <br />standards and restrictions that apply to the project. Each permitting agency has its own authority to issue <br />or deny permits for the project. <br />Recent large residential projects that have required an EAW include: <br />• 600 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis <br />o 0.68 acre site <br />o 27 story multi-use building with 450 residential units <br />• Ritz Block Redevelopment, Minneapolis <br />o 2.5 acre site <br />o 728 residential unit building <br />• Kraus-Anderson Block Redevelopment, Minneapolis <br />o 2.5 acre site <br />o Mixed use <br />o 306 residential unit building, hotel, office space and event center <br />• Superior Plating Site Redevelopment, Minneapolis <br />o 5.5 acre site <br />o Mixed use <br />o 750 residential units with high rise and low rise buildings <br />• L & H Station Redevelopment, Minneapolis <br />o Mixed use <br />o 565 residential unit building <br />15