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Planning Commission Regular Meeting Minutes January 19, 2021 Page 6 1 Commissioner Erickson asked if this project is denser in terms of per acre or comparable to 2 the one in Bloomington. Mr. Wall explained this project is less dense. 3 4 Commissioner Erickson indicated the residents of St. Anthony were concerned about the 5 landscaping and thought it should be more at the premium end of things with this being right 6 on the parkway and he wondered if this project was better in terms of landscaping than the 7 Bloomington project or similar. Mr. Wall explained this development will have more mature 8 trees along the Stinson Boulevard where the mature trees that are currently there could not be 9 kept. The intention is to preserve as many of the mature trees as possible and if not possible 10 than more mature trees will be planted along the Stinson Parkway and trying to carry similar 11 species for this parkway. The selections for this site are not the same selections that are at the 12 Bloomington project. 13 14 Commissioner Socha stated her principal concern with this is the building height, which in the 15 memo from Mr. Grittman states 56 feet but from she understands is actually 46 feet, which 16 gives her less concern, but she was curious what type of effects as far as shading from it being 17 cast onto other properties nearby. Mr. Wall indicated a study has not been done on it, but they 18 have put their focus on understanding where that shade would fall and at the furthest it does 19 not reach beyond the ally to the north and to the access road to the east and to Stinson to the 20 west and there are not any shade casts to the south. 21 22 Commissioner Socha indicated the first resident that spoke did mention a hill that keeps water 23 from running even more and she knew the area did have some water problems and wondered 24 if Mr. Wall was aware of the hill that resident was referencing and if that hill is being 25 removed. Mr. Wall indicated the resident mentioned that hill, storm water run off and a high 26 water table and another resident mentioned the landmark study by Ken Haberman and they are 27 aware of that study and have all of the information and the remediation, the vapor mitigation 28 system, the excavation of some of the surface soils that have some oil on it and all of that, 29 even though it was identified in that study, is understood, it is being planned for and that 30 remediation is a part of what the developer would be doing. The vapor mitigation system 31 would handle the situation the resident mentioned. In regard to the hill and stormwater, he 32 asked Mr. Ward from Wenk to speak to that. 33 34 Mr. Ward explained he was aware of the hill being referenced at the northwest corner of the 35 site where Stinson meets the ally. A good portion of the current site that drains off toward 36 Stinson down that hill. He explained their improvements do actually remove a big chunk of 37 that hill from a height perspective but in doing so, they are taking that drainage that would, 38 under current existing conditions, drain toward Stinson. They are actually pulling that 39 drainage back into the site so when the development is done there will be less drainage that 40 runs toward Stinson and more that runs in. By lowering the hill, from an engineering 41 perspective, they are not going to add more water or allow water to run off, they are actually 42 lowering the whole top and letting that water to continue to flow into the site. This will go 43 into the storm ponds on site which will then discharge into the same direction that the 44 majority of the site does which is through the Urban Grove site down to Kenzie Terrace. 45