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Planning Commission Regular Meeting Minutes January 19, 2021 Page 8 1 about the stormwater and the rate and water quality but nothing about the volume, which she 2 believed would also be a standard that had to be met and wondered if someone could give a 3 better indication of maybe pre/post construction rates and volumes. 4 5 Mr. Wall explained regarding the parking, there is 51 parking surface level and the purpose 6 for it is staff on the north, east and northeast side and for visitor parking. If they needed to get 7 under that he would just caution that they do not want to have all of the parking down in the 8 garage because there could be twenty-five cars parking for staff and could cause an issue on 9 Stinson Boulevard. He thought the softest approach would be to leave it as is because they 10 did calibrate to the number of visitors they would assume, as well as staff with all of the 11 residents parking being underground. 12 13 Mr. Ward explained regarding stormwater management, the project is designed to meet rate 14 control and water quality. As indicated within this meeting, the past contaminates that have 15 been on site and the potential for impacted ground water, the volume requirement is 16 something that will not be met, mainly because from MPCA guidance and MPH guidance. 17 They do not recommend trying to infiltrate water into impacted sites. For that reason, they are 18 dealing with it through rate and then filtration to meet the water quality requirements. 19 20 Mr. Wilson indicated they could reduce the number of surface parking spots to forty and he 21 thought Ms. Weiler’s comments were terrific and he took notes on all of those and will 22 continue to work with Menk on the landscape plan to flush out some of those comments and 23 also looking at the mature trees and pollinator plants. He thought they could bring the 24 Council a slightly more refined amenity package. 25 26 Chair Westrick noted just because the issue of noise was brought up with the fans, she was 27 unfamiliar with how loud those could be and was curious what the comments are on that. Mr. 28 Wall explained this was addressed at either one or both of the neighborhood meetings and 29 their intention is to put most of the loud equipment onto the roof of the first floor that extends 30 out to the east in the middle of the building. The building on the west will protect the sound 31 from any residents on the west side and most of the north and then there will be the contour of 32 the building as well as the parapet that will be put on the roof to block most of the sound to 33 the north. He thought from a distance perspective, it is the best position one could put the 34 equipment that could be louder and certainly the exhaust of where the kitchen will be is pretty 35 substantially far away from the neighbors to the north and to the west. 36 37 Chair Westrick asked Mr. Grittman to explain how the Code with the density and the Comp. 38 Plan with the guided density interact. Mr. Grittman reviewed the comparisons and differences 39 between the two with the Commission. 40 41 Commissioner Socha wondered what other Commissioner thoughts were on reducing the 42 parking to increase the impervious surface. 43 44 Chair Westrick recommended putting the motion on the table and then the Commission could 45 discuss or amend the motion as recommended. 46