Email from Angie Kairies to Josh Koller 07-20-20110 1 4
Kairies, Angie
From:
Kairies, Angie
Sent:
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 2:54 PM
To:
'Josh Koller'
Cc:
Jeffery, Terry
Subject:
10036 Trails End Road
Josh,
The application that was submitted was for relief from the hard surface coverage. As it appeared last night
you were trying to appeal a determination of staff. Therefore, we have two separate and possibly concurrent
issues.
1. The request for relief from the 25% hard surface maximum.
2. An apparent request for an interpretation or amendment of the City Code to permit SportBase " as a
city wide pervious application. (this was not noticed as a part of your application)
What is moving forward to the City Council and what was voted on last night by the Board of Adjustments is
item number 1. To appeal last night's decision, you will need to submit a Letter of Appeal in writing to me by
Friday of this week.
If it is your intent to have this material interpreted as an approved pervious material, a separate application
and Public Hearing will be necessary. No fee will be associated with a second application. This shall include
additional engineering information. The burden of proof is upon the applicant to provide adequate data
specific to the material, construction, and the site to show that the resulting hydrologic and hydraulic
conditions:
• Will decrease runoff;
• Will not create downstream or localized flooding or erosive conditions; and
• Will function per design into the future.
If you would like to move forward with a code amendment and the hard surface coverage variance
concurrently, we can postpone the scheduled City Council meeting to accommodate both. To do that the
Letter of Appeal you submit by this Friday must also state that you are waiving the 60 day review period.
As Terry stated last night, he does not contend the argument that the SportBase TM material has a hydraulic
conductivity superior to that of most common native soil materials. However, the system in its entirety does
not have a hydraulic conductivity superior to that of native soil materials with vegetation. At this time, staff
will not make a favorable recommendation for the use of this material as a City wide pervious application;
therefore, please consider how much of an investment you are willing to incur.
Feel free to contact me or Terry with any additional questions.
Sincerely,
Angie and Terry
Angie Kairies
Planner 1
City of Chanhassen
7700 Market Blvd
Chanhassen, MN 55317
Direct dial: 952 - 227 -1132
Fax: 952 - 227 -1110
email: akairies(o)-ci.chanhassen.mn.us
Website: www.ci.chanhassen.mn.us
From: Josh Koller [ mailto :jkoller @southviewdesign.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 20118:35 AM
To: Kairies, Angie
Cc: Burroughs, Philip; Craig Jones; kevin zwart
Subject:
Hello Angie, can you send me the info I need to process the appeal, or let me know what I all need to do. Also can you
have Terry send me and the team at sport court all of the things that he either disputes or has questions on so we can
answer them and be better prepared for the next meeting? I know you and I had had conversations on how we were not
doing the sub -base that was on the diagram but he seemed to not know about that and at the end of the meeting
yesterday his final argument was that he doesn't know enough about the sport court to give his approval. So what I would
like to do is have him send us all of the questions that he has and his reasons for not understanding or accepting it so that
the engineers at sport court can answer any of his questions. We would just like to be as prepared as we can for the next
meeting, and given that there is a limited time to get this done I would like to get this as soon as we can. Thanks Angie
you have been a big help in getting back to us right away on all of this.
Thanks,
Josh
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