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B W B R Memorandum DATE July 15,2016 PROJECT Sherburne County Government Center Renovation and Expansion COMM.# 3.2015105.00 TO Chris Leeseberg,Senior Planner City of Elk River FROM Eric West AIA SUBJECT Site Plan Review Response COPY Steve Taylor,Sherburne County Pat Sims,A&P Brian Johnson,EVS Carey Ottman Everson,A&P Doug Wild, BWBR Rodney Lafreniere,A&P Mr.Leeseberg, Thanks you for reviewing our applications for Preliminary Plat, Final Plat and Conditional Use Permit for the renovation and expansion of the Sherburne County Government Center. We offer the following in responses to the comments identified in your letter dated July 8,2016.Below we have included the comment in regular script and our response in italics. Engineering 1. The existing 40-feet of side,east of the current main entrance on Business Center Drive,should be removed and replaced to continue a straight running line along the street. Response:The sidewalk plan will revised accordingly. 2. ADA compliant pedestrian ramps meeting MnDOT standards with red truncated domes must be installed at the current and new driveway entrance location. Response:Additional pedestrian ramp details will be added at those locations and the City detail will be replaced with the MnDOT standard plate. 3. Please identify the signing and striping that will complete the exit only conversion at the main entrance. Response:Signing and striping will be added at that location in the plans to better communicate that is an exit only. 4. Provide detail of sanitary sewer modifications that will provide for grinding of all illegal discharges currently being conveyed from this property. Response:The County's building expansion and renovation project have nothing to do with the jail's housing units. At the same time,several steps have been put in place over the years to prevent and/or intercept items from entering the sanitary sewer system from the jail. a. Recently the County jail and maintenance staff installed a'hook'system inside the pipes that catch most if not all clothing such as towels,sheets,socks or t-shirts being flushed. These hooks have been installed behind every cell in the facility. b. In 2010 the County discontinued specific commissary products for inmates in special housing,items such as potato chips, thus eliminating the foil type packaging and other similar foil type wrappers or packaging related to commissary items. This type of packaging was a concern to the city at that time. c. In 2013 we developed a plan for water shutoff before each shakedown. A shakedown is a surprise/random search of each inmate's cell. Once the shakedown starts and inmates become aware of the shakedown, we didn't wont them to have the opportunity to try and flush anything down the toilet prior to search searching each jail cell. Being caught with extra issued items will trigger a loss of certain highly regarded privileges G:\1510500\06-issued\2016-06-27 Site Plan Review\2016-07-15 SCGC Site Plan Review Response.docx