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Setbacks <br />The site development, including the security fence, will conform to the City's setback <br />requirements for the zoning district. Front: 40 feet. Side: 20 feet. Rear: 50 feet. <br />Connection to the Xcel System <br />The proposed community solar garden will connect to the local utility grid at an existing <br />distribution line that runs along 165th Avenue. Two diagrams of this interconnection are <br />included on the Site Development Plan, above. A signed agreement with the local utility <br />company will be submitted with the application for a Building Permit. <br />Site Access <br />Access to the site of the community solar garden will be from 1651 Avenue. The internal <br />service drive will be grass -covered. <br />Wetland Delineation <br />Emmons and Olivier Resources, Inc., will conduct a "desktop" review of hydrology, soils, <br />topography and historic aerial photography of the site and submit it to the Rice Creek <br />Watershed District for review. The Watershed District will provide a written opinion whether <br />any apparent wetlands exist in the cultivated fields, and that will be verified by field <br />investigation and reviewed by the Watershed District. <br />Prior to the start of construction, the Watershed District will issue a Wetland Conservation Act <br />Notice of Decision on behalf of itself acting as the WCA Local Governing Unit. The wetland <br />permitting process will be coordinated with the Army Corps of Engineers , which has <br />regulatory authority for Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. The Minnesota Department of <br />Natural Resources may require permits through the Minnesota Public Waters program that <br />they administer. Avoidance and minimization of all impacts to wetlands (if any) and public <br />waters is being incorporated into the site design and implemented. <br />Grading, Drainage and Erosion Control <br />Grading for the community solar garden limited to the extent practical. It may include (1) <br />creating grass -covered service roads among the blocks of arrays (2) creating pads for the <br />electrical inverters, (3) stabilizing the construction entrances and exits and access road and (4) <br />establishing the parking and staging areas for vehicle and equipment storage / laydown and <br />maintenance. The solar arrays can conform to the slopes and do not require that terraces be <br />created because each solar array is installed by simply drilling posts into the ground. <br />Disturbed soils will be returned closely to their original contours. The final site will be seeded <br />with fast-growing grasses and mowed as necessary to prevent woody species from establishing. <br />Consequently, the rate, volume and quality of the surface water runoff is expected to be <br />improved from the present values generated by a plowed field of row crops. <br />The existing drainage from the site is not expected to be changed. <br />315 Manitoba Avenue, Suite 200, Wayzata, MN 55391 <br />