CC Staff Report 4-8-2019CITY COUNCIL STAFF REPORT
Monday, Apri18, 2019
Subject
Avienda: Extend Preliminary Plat and Extinguish Final Plat
Section
CONSENT AGENDA
Item No: D.8.
Prepared By
Kate Aanenson, Community
Development Director, AICP
File No: Planning Case 2017-10
PROPOSED MOTION
"The City Council approves extension of the preliminary plat and extinguishes the final plat for Avienda, but allows
for grading as stated in the conditions of approval from the City Council staff report dated June 25, 2018."
Approval requires a Simple Majority Vote of members present.
SUMMARY
The City Council approved the final plat and grading permit for Avienda subject to the conditions of the staff report
dated June 25, 2018. Since the final plat approval, the applicant wants to proceed with just the grading permit. In
order to proceed per city ordinance, the applicant must extinguish the final plat approval and receive an extension of
the preliminary plat.
Attached is a letter requesting extension of the preliminary plat and extinguishing the final plat approval.
BACKGROUND
Avienda is a PUD zoning district and the developer anticipates making some internal changes to the project. Their plan
is to review these changes with the City Council in a work session. The changes will require an amendment to the
PUD which requires a public hearing before the Planning Commission and approval by the City Council.
The grading plan which was approved on June 25, 2018 will be followed as well as the conditions of approval that are
applicable with the grading plan; this includes security. Grading of the site will take several months, during that time the
developer will be working through the PUD amendment.
RECOMMENDATION
Approve extension of the preliminary plat and extinguish the final plat.
ATTACHMENTS:
Extension Letter
Avienda Draft Changes
March 14, 2019
Kate Aanenson
City of Chanhassen
7700 Market Boulevard
PO Box 147
Chanhassen, MN 55317
RE: Avienda Grading Permit
Dear Kate,
Our Level 7 Development, LLC team is working to address the conditions of the grading permit
approval granted by the City Council on June 25, 2018 so that the grading permit may be issued and
grading can begin on site.
We have been working to finalize our development plans for the Avienda project and look forward to
presenting an updated plan at a future Council Work Session. The Council granted approval of our
Preliminary Plat, Rezoning, Conditional Use Permit and Wetland Alteration permit on July 10, 2017.
The Final Plat was approved on June 25, 2018. While we are working on revisions to the approved
plans, we request an extension of our preliminary approvals until December 31, 2019 and hereby
give notice that we do not intend to file the final as approved. We request administrative approval of
the preliminary approvals and withdraw the final plat as you requested in order to proceed with the
issuance of the grading permit and review of the revised PUD plans.
While we understand that we are entitled under the July 2017 approvals, we are excited about the
revisions that we will be presenting to the Council later this month and look forward to submitting
these modified plans for approval this spring. Please reach out to Kendra Lindahl at Landform with
any questions regarding this request.
Sincerely,
410,
Bahram Akradi
Level 7 Development, LLC
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