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and grow naturally so just a wonderful experience and thank you and Mr. Gerhardt and Todd and
as I said, everybody involved. It’s, it really was a great event.
Todd Gerhardt: Yeah, the Rotary plays a big role in this too and it’s a cooperative effort you
know. A bunch of organizations but the Rotary with their activity in Taste of Chanhassen. The
parade and the beer gardens. They just do a great job and really give up 2 days of their holiday
to participate in that program so, and they really organized the parade and it’s a great partnership.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you everyone. We’ll make it better next year. You know that’s right.
You know people have said you know there’s, you know that there’s a reason to stay in town and
I think it’s getting to the point is why would you want to leave town so just a great event. Let’s
move on then with our consent agenda items.
CONSENT AGENDA:
Mayor Furlong: Councilwoman Ernst?
Councilwoman Ernst: Yeah, if I could pull (e) out. It’s just more of a clarification and question.
Mayor Furlong: Okay. You want to pick that up, if it is clarification. Let’s do it at new business
after number 2, if that’s okay.
Councilwoman Ernst: Okay. Sure.
Mayor Furlong: Since we have people here for number 2. Any others? Anyone from the
audience? Okay. Then is there a motion to adopt items 1(a) through (d)?
Councilman Litsey: So moved,
Mayor Furlong: Is there a second?
Councilman McDonald: Second.
Councilman Litsey moved, Councilman McDonald seconded to approve the following
consent agenda items pursuant to the City Manager’s recommendations:
a. Approval of Minutes:
-City Council Work Session Minutes dated June 28, 2010
-City Council Verbatim and Summary Minutes dated June 28, 2010
Receive Commission Minutes:
-Planning Commission Verbatim and Summary Minutes dated July 6, 2010
-Park and Recreation Commission Verbatim and Summary Minutes dated June 22, 2010
b. Boulder Cove Subdivision: Approve Time Extension to File Development Contract and
Final Plat Mylars, Cottage Homesteads at Boulder Cove, LLC.
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c. The Preserve at Bluff Creek Third Addition:
1) Final Plat Approval.
2) Approval of Development Contract and Plans and Specifications.
d. Lakeside Fourth Addition: Approve Amendment to Final Plat.
All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 4 to 0.
VISITOR PRESENTATIONS:
None.
PIONEER PASS: REQUEST FOR PRELIMINARY PLAT CREATING 94 LOTS, 4
OUTLOTS AND RIGHT-OF-WAY FOR PUBLIC STREETS (APPROXIMATELY 45
ACRES); CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT FOR DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE BLUFF
CREEK OVERLAY DISTRICT WITH A VARIANCE FOR ENCROACHMENT INTO
THE PRIMARY ZONE; AN INTERIM USE PERMIT TO ALLOW SITE GRADING
PRIOR TO FINAL PLAT APPROVAL; AND A WETLAND ALTERATION PERMIT
FOR THE GRADING AND FILLING OF WETLANDS ON PROPERTY ZONED
RESIDENTIAL LOW AND MEDIUM DENSITY (RLM) AND AGRICULTURAL
ESTATE (A2), LOCATED NORTH OF PIONEER TRAIL (1600 PIONEER TRAIL) AT
BLUFF CREEK DRIVE. APPLICANT: RYLAND HOMES, PLANNING CASE 2010-09.
Kate Aanenson: Good evening Mayor. Thank you members of the City Council. This item
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appeared before the Planning Commission on July 6 and they did recommend approval 6-0.
They did have some questions which I’ll spend some time going through when I go through the
staff report. As the Mayor indicated there are a couple requests here. One including the
preliminary plat for 94 lots and 4 outlots. The conditional use for the development within the
Bluff Creek District with a variance for the encroachment into the primary zone. An interim use
to allow grading of the site prior to final plat approval, and a wetland alteration permit for
grading and filling of wetlands. This site is located in what we call the 2005 MUSA. Give a
little history on this. Goes back to 2003 when actually K. Hovnanian was first coming forward
and we were deciding on putting utilities in place and we did an alternative urban review of the
project so this is consistent with that and I’ll spend some time talking about that too so it’s
actually getting access off of the Bluff Creek Boulevard which was put in place. This project
will also get access off of Pioneer Trail, which will provide two ways in and then out to this
development. Right now the only way in is off of Audubon on Bluff Creek Boulevard. In the
AUAR which was done in 2003 the framework issue for this was a lot of the natural features that
go through this site, when we were looking at this it was actually studied to potentially look at
the high school site in this area or a middle school and actually the high school site got moved
across the street and that would be partially on the Degler property, which is in this area here. So
in looking at this, this entire area was studied under one framework and some of it was to
preserve the creek itself. The unique features of the creek, preserving that. And then we looked
at, how the, with the overlay district either taking it as a whole or incrementally as each project
came in, so we looked at the zoning for this area and how would we be able to attract or acquire
that and we look at these subdivisions, that’s one of the ways to do that. The areas in green are
actually more heavily wooded so, a lot of this has been preserved and I’ll show in a second what
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