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Liberty Heights Es1JJ.tes of Elk River January 17, 2006 Page 2 wetland. These park access trails should be a minimum of 30 feet wide with a 10-foot trail paved in the middle. 4. Sidewalks will be required on two sides of the main street and one side of all o~er streets within yow: development. 5. We discussed that the main street in yow: development will likely be the entrance off of County Highway 40 over to the east plat boundary. We discussed the need to change the access at the east plat boundary of this street to be more of a continuous flowing movement, rather than a 90-degree comer. Finally, we discussed that this road would likely be slightly wider, possibly 36 feet wide, just to give a little more room, given the potential higher traffic on it. 6. Street lighting will be required throughout yow: plat according to the Elk River Municipal Utilities street lighting guidelines. Rebecca Haug has requested that LED lights be considered in this development because of the Energy City designation that Elk River holds. 7. We discussed the need for some type of minimum house sizes in square footage to deal with the issue that the Council seems to have that smaller lots mean smaller houses. This was an issue raised by Scott Clark. Ed can certainly discuss directly with Scott how this issue could be best handled. 8. There will be a requirement for a 10-foot wide bituminous trail to be built along the County Highway 40 frontage. At this point in time, we are assuming that it will be built on the plat property because we cannot not be sw:e that Sherburne County will provide enough additional room in their County Highway 40 right-of-way. If in fact there is room within the County right-of-way, the trail can be moved to just into the right-of- way. 9. We discussed the need for some type ofberming and/or fence along the County Highway 40 right-of-way from yow: south plat boundary all the way to CSAH 13. The Planning Department provided photographs of two fence installations in the City; one a good example, and one a poor example. We suggested that you discuss this among yourselves and make a proposal back to the City how best to deal with this issue. 10. As you layout yow: plat, there will be a requirement for a wetland buffer. There will be a 25-foot "no cut - no grade" area (grading in this will be allowed because of the enhancement of the wetland) and a 20-foot minimum setback beyond the 25-foot. Since the wetland area is proposed to be provided to the City in an outlot, the rear lot lines of the lots adjacent to the wetland should be set at the 25-foot buffer line. 11. The park area to be given to the City must be rough graded to a useable grade for park land and then seeded. There is no requirement to grade the proposed school site, however we did discuss that since it will not be used immediately by the School District, we would like to see that 30-acre site seeded with a MnDOT prairie seed mix. S:\PLANNING\Case Files\2006\Plat\P 06-03 Ltberty Heights Es1JJ.tes\0117 06 Engr's memo.doc