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Fox Meadows Preliminary Plat Page 3 The applicant has not submitted a lighting plan for the development, but shall meet the requirement for street lighting in residential zoning districts. The street lighting shall be reviewed and approved by City staff prior to installation with the final plat for each phase. DrainagelGrading The storm water management plans are consistent with the storm water permit requirements, and include a storm water management pond within the southeast corner of the site and infiltration areas throughout the development. The City's goals and policies related to water resource management are to "Reduce, Reuse, and Replenish" when it comes to the use of drinking water as well as the management of storm water. The vision behind the policy is to minimize the volume of drinking water used for irrigation, as well as to provide cost-effective, regional means to infiltrate water to protect downstream water bodies. The RCWD has recently modified their storm water management rules to allow: • Irrigation using storm water to qualify as an infiltration strategy • Regional infiltration through storm water irrigation or traditional infiltration/groundwater recharge strategies The ability to take credit for infiltration/storm water irrigation installed within a large drainage area, and apply the credit elsewhere within the drainage area in lieu of constructing individual infiltration areas like those included within the Fox Meadows preliminary development plans The City is currently partnering with the Rice Creek Watershed District (RCWD), Oneka Ridge Golf Course, and the State of Minnesota through the Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR) to construct a storm water reuse facility within the golf course property. The facility will allow the golf course to utilize storm water runoff to irrigate the golf course, once construction is completed in the spring of 2014. The revised rules as outlined above will allow the City to take credit for the infiltration accomplished within the golf course, and apply them to the Fox Meadows development. The infiltration areas within the development could then be eliminated from the plans. City staff is currently working with the RCWD to develop a system for tracking and valuing the infiltration credits, and the particulars can be outlined within the Development Agreement for the first phase of the project. The plans include a 20 -foot wide access easement to allow for access to the storm water pond that is shown on the east edge of the plat, as well as sufficient drainage and utility easements to allow for access to the rear -yard drainage systems. Runoff from the existing 125'h Street is directed into the City's Well #6 property located on the south side of 125th Street. This drainage pattern will continue following the paving of 125th Street, which will include some minor grading and erosion control to be completed within the City property as part of the development project.