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Item 6.3. City ~ I ver MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor and City Council FROM: DATE: Stephen Rohlf, Building and Zoning Administrator August 19, 2002 SUBJECT: Request by Terri Bostrom to Create a Pond -CU 02-25/P..H. Section 900.31 (5) ("Excavation, Grading and Filling") states that excavation in a wetland that encompasses more than one parcel requires a conditional use. If a wetland is jointly owned, what one owner does can affect another. The intent of this requirement is to provide the other owners of a wetland an opportunity to voice concerns. Staff has dismissed the CUP process when all of the owners of a pond are doing a project jointly. Ms. Bostrom is proposing to excavate an approximately 5,000 square foot area in a Type 2 wetland to create some open w~ter for ducks and aesthetics. The wetland in question is' rather large, over 30 acres in size, with a branch of County Ditch #28 running through it. It is dominated with reed canary grass. It is highly unlikely that her proposed project will affect other owners of this wetland. Attached is a vicinity map of Ms. Bostrom's property and an aerial photo showing the location of the pond and where the spoils will be deposited. On the photo you can note the location of the county ditch on the west side of her property. A letter regarding this issue from Sherbume County Ditch Inspector John Norgren, dated July 8, 2002, is also attached to this memo. Staff has made a decision that Ms. Bostrom's project meets the "NO Loss" exemption of the Wetland Conservation Act (WCA) and has sent out a combined notification of this decision to: the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Minnesota Board of Water and Soils Resources, the Sherbume County Soil and Water Conservation District, the City Engineer and Sherbume County.