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Planning Commission Minutes — January 13, 2005 Commissioner McRoberts pointed out that he owned property adjacent to the site. He said he felt there were too many access points on Elmcrest Avenue North and that portion of Elmcrest should be abandoned. Rickert explained that it would be a right -in/ right -out when the County improved CSAH8 and the future signal at Victor Hugo Boulevard would provide gaps in the traffic. He also said there would be a future signal at Otter Lake Road in Lino Lakes. Rickert showed a possible future alignment of Elmcrest in Lino Lakes. The Planner discussed with the Commission concerns regarding areas where larger vehicles would be required to backup around corners when leaving the some of the townhomes. Commissioner McRoberts questioned how the water would flow through the development. Jason McCathy, Westwood Development, said he had spent time with Phil Belifori and Jay Kennedy, both from WSB, discussing how the area should be drained to the ditch and south to Clearwater Creek. They acknowledged that they needed to look into a piping system, routing drainage through a series of ponds. He said they understood they needed to maintain the flow and install outlets and culverts that won't clog. Arnie Triemert, 15220 Everton, said his neighbor John Udsted was unable to attend but said Udsted was concerned that the development had no senior housing and a lot of multi -family housing. Triemert also said there was a lot of space between the multi -family housing and the single family housing in Victor Gardens compared to the space there would be between the proposed townhomes and existing homes to the north. Richard Meath, 15128 Everton Avenue North, said there were two flowages through the properties. One was a natural drainage to the southwest into the development. He was concerned that the back half of his land continues to drain properly. He was also concerned about the water that drains through the proposed development to the east. Meath also said he felt that Victor Gardens on the south of CSAH8 does not beautify the corridor going into Hugo. Gene Zerwas. 6732 Egg Lake Road, said he had issues with the way the City did their planning by allowing all the multi family homes and asked the Commission to consider the new school. He said the new developments will fill up half the school. Zerwas said traffic was a problem already, and 22 foot long driveways will not accommodate large SUV's. He said he feels the City should be putting more expensive homes in the City and should be listening to the residents, not the developers. Dave Hempel, POA Scherer Project Manager, acknowledged that there were a lot of conditions of approval. He felt they were all achievable and would continue working with staff. Hempel talked about the townhome units explaining how the five end units along Elmcrest would have plantings along the streets and how they would try to break up the similarities