Variance 10-05 Recorded Document No.
OF THE
COUNTY RECORDER
A 518300 CARVER COUNTY, MINNESOTA
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County Recorder
CITY OF CHANHASSEN `-
CARVER AND HENNEPIN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA
VARIANCE 10 -05
1. Permit. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the City of Chanhassen
hereby grants the following variance:
The Chanhassen Planning Commission, as the Board of Appeals and
Adjustments, approves a variance to construct a retaining wall within the Bluff
Impact Zone. The granting of this variance is final.
2. Property. The variance is for property situated in the City of Chanhassen, Carver
County, Minnesota, and legally described as follows:
Lot 1, Block 1, Vogel Addition
3. Condition. The variance approval is subject to the following conditions:
a. Erosion control measures are to be installed on the slope and maintained until final stabilization 7
is achieved. These measures should include staggered silt fence with J -hooks or staggered bio-
rolls with J- hooks.
b. The applicant shall vegetate the bluff in accordance with the Landscape Plan submitted by
Bobby Jensen's Landscape Junction, stamped "Received January 14, 2010 ".
c. No area within the bluff impact zone and below the more upslope retaining wall is to be
maintained as yard.
d. No mowing shall occur within the Bluff Impact Zone except as needed per an approved
vegetation management plan to control noxious weeds or to establish native vegetation
consistent with the surrounding plant community.
e. Recruitment of seedlings from the surrounding seed source trees shall be allowed in the area
below the second retaining wall. No efforts shall be taken to control the growth of trees in this
area unless they are considered invasive, such as common buckthorn or black locust.
f. Imported soil materials need to be granular with no greater than 10% clay content to allow for
infiltration.
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g. Location of drain tile outlets shall be such that it does not create a nuisance condition nor
promote erosion. Stabilization BMPs shall be placed at the discharge point and shall be
inspected by the Water Resources Coordinator.
h. The applicant shall work with staff to determine the height of the step when connecting the
proposed wall to the easterly portion of the existing wall.
i. The retaining wall shall be located no lower than the existing 915' contour.
j. A zoning permit shall be applied for and approved prior to construction."
4. Lapse. If within one (1) year of the issuance of this variance the allowed
construction has not been substantially completed, this variance shall lapse.
Dated: February 16, 2010
CITY OF CHANHASSEN
BY: 1 6-. "'""' A 4
(SEAL) h' mas A. Furlong, or
AND:
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Todd Gerhardt, City Manager
STATE OF MINNESOTA )
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COUNTY OF CARVER
• The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this day of
2010 by Thomas A. Furlong, Mayor and Todd Gerhardt, City Manager, of the City of Chanhassen,
a Minnesota municipal corporation, on behalf of the corporation and pursuant to authority granted
by its City Council.
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