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Tall Pines 2, LLC 350 W Burnsville Parkway suite 515♦ Burnsville, MN 55337♦ 952.830.0161 ♦ Fax: 952.830.1320 Tall Pines Third Addition Supplemental Narrative October 25, 2021 Tall Pines 3 (we will be naming it"Evergreen") requires the site layout to be substantially changed. As you recall, due to the narrowness of the site,the townhouse site plan needed to have the road near the boundary with town house lots perpendicular to the road,only on one side. Or,we thought a better option was to show the road down the middle of the site, with a new townhome design that was very shallow, but very wide along the road. Either way, there would be 14 townhomes in the project. That design was submitted and approved previously. Unfortunately,the grading would necessitate substantial alterations that we feel would be too expensive to implement and would require the removal of trees along the southerly boundary that we promised to preserve. The alterations required would be 400 feet of retaining walls up to 10 feet high along the back yards of the south lots and additional storm sewer system at the bottom of the retaining walls to divert the water draining from the hills so the homes would not be flooded. Keeping the grades as high as possible, so the above problems would not be worse, would require a substantial amount of fill, which would need to be trucked in. As you can imagine, these problems make that design unworkable. Our alternative design shows the road near the south property line. All 14 homes will be Bridgeport and Hampton designs, which are the same designs we have built in West Oaks,Tall Pines 1 and are under construction in Tall Pines 2. The buildings will be slightly larger and will have walkout basements. This site plan will not require fill to be brought in nor extensive retaining walls constructed. The storm sewer system located in the street would be sufficient so no new storm sewer system would be required. In conclusion, many of us like the original plan better, but it is not feasible! This plan is also a good plan and it works better financially and environmentally. Thank you for your consideration (-R )rce rric 612-644-3724 Chief Manager Tall Pines 2, LLC Attachments: • Preliminary Plat Application • Conditional Use Permit Application • Site Plan • Building photograph, elevations &floor plans • Application Check (original mailed)