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PLANNING COMMISSION April 28, 2020 (John Jordan recused himself due to probable litigation between homeowners and builder. Zack muted the audio and video.) Zack: All right, so 6.1, it's a Tall Pines PUD Second Addition. It's located generally north of where the first Tall Pines project was, just south of the light manufacturing facility. It's also located on Line Avenue. We did look at this one about a year ago, it's now coming back. The applicant had previously withdrawn their application due to — to wait for an understanding of where MNDOT was going to provide access to 169 as far as interchanges and how that would affect some of our local road networks. So they had withdrawn it and now they've resubmitted it. The proposal is for 29 residential villas. It's on 40' lots, very similar to the Tall Pines @ Elk River First Addition. It's the villa style detached townhomes which we've seen in a number of other locations, including Cleaver Lake Fields and West Oaks. This is the same developer that completed West Oaks as well as the Tall Pines First Addition. This would be developed as a PUD or planned unit development and it does require a zone change to PUD, a conditional use permit to establish that planned unit development, and then also a preliminary plat. The only street in the subdivision would be a private street and that would connect directly to Line Avenue. There would be no particular access east onto Twin Lakes Road and there will be a right-of-way dedication for a future cul-de-sac of Line Avenue which is part of the larger transportation changes that are resulting from Highway 169 improvements. This will all be served by city utilities. So there are some concerns with some wetland buffer setback impacts. However, after working with the environmental staff and the consultants for this applicant, we feel we've come to the best solution for this particular case. There are alternatives, but that would include filling wetlands which none of us want to do, so we're comfortable with our proposal with some encroachment into that 45' setback; there are no encroachments into the 25' setback. The comprehensive plan guides this area for mixed use which does support higher density residential land uses, but it's currently zoned business park. Here's the site plan as it is today. Here's the cul-de-sac on Line Avenue so the connection north -south would be terminated and that would be at a later date. Here's a better image showing that, so you can see Line Avenue, and 51" Street would become a through road while this cul-de-sac would push all the traffic to the south so it would eliminate that cut -through traffic on Line Avenue. It's part of the plan improvements as a result of Highway 169. 1