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City of Oak Park Heights •
14168 Oak Park Blvd. N•Box 2007.Oak Park Heights,MN 55082•Phone(651)439-4439•Fax(651)439-0574
January 21,2015
HAF Architects
233 South Main Street
Stillwater,MN 55082 (LISTED APPLICANT)
AND
TIC Properties LLC
2607 White Bear Ave.
Maplewood, MN 55109 (LISTED OWNER)
RE: Oak Ridge Place—Memory Care Addition—MNDOT ROW use
The City has received the enclosed letter from the State of Minnesota Department of Transportation regarding,what
we assume to be,your recent communications about shifting the public drainage drainage area southward onto
MNDOT lands.
As you know,the City cannot consider this independently from your application and the City and Developer must
have unilateral consent from the State for such actions. And, based on the content of the communication it is
essentially denied as no part of the drainage ways nor retaining walls may be in the MNDOT right-of-way.
Accordingly at this time it is very important that you review the status of this project relative to these comments as
well as those in the enclosed letter from MNDOT. In addition,the City deemed the Oak Ridge application complete
on October 29,2014 for review and as such the City must make a decision on the application not later than 120
days. Based on this information,it would seem the City Staff would have little recourse but to recommend denial of
the application.
You are applicant may take the affirmative action to extend the deadline via the submission of a signed letter offering
an addition 90 days for example.Should you fail to provide that extension,the City will take action on the proposal as
we know it to be and likely would be Feb 10th,2015.
Please give me a call when you have a chance so we can discuss this matter in detail and perhaps set up a meeting
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Johnson
Administrator
Cc: Scott Richards,City Planner
Mark Vierling,City Attorney
Development File
Weekly Notes
Karen Schffing, MNDOT
• ° Minnesota Department of Transportation
Metropolitan Edge BuDilding rict
" 1500 County Road B2 West
Roseville, MN 55113
January 15,2014
Scott Richards
Oak Park Heights Planner
P.O.Box 2007
Oak Park Heights,MN 55082
SUBJECT: Oak Ridge Place—Memory Care Addition
MnDOT Review#S15-001
NW of MN 36 and CR 63 (Oxboro Ave.N.)
Oak Park Heights,Washington County
Control Section 8214
Dear Mr.Richards:
The Minnesota Department of Transportation(MnDOT)has reviewed the above referenced site plan.
Please address the following issues before any further development occurs:
Surveys
According to page 2 of the Oak Ridge Place document,the majority of Pond Area 1 will be in State right
of way. This pond should be relocated outside of State right of way.
If you have any questions regarding these comments please contact Tiffany Kautz at 651/234-7584,
tiffany.kautz @state.mn.us.
Design
Please submit plans for the retaining wall.No part of the wall or wall support system can be on MnDOT
right of way.Mapping also shows an existing 60th Street frontage road for TH 36. If that road has been
removed,make a note of that removal on the plan.
If you have any questions regarding these comments please contact Nancy Jacobson at 651.234.7647,
Nancy.L.Jacobson @ state.mn.us.
Water Resources
Additional drainage information is required to determine if a MnDOT Drainage permit may be required.
The proposed construction will need to maintain existing drainage rates to MnDOT right-of-way. Please
provide the following:
1) A grading Plan of the existing&proposed project.
2) Drainage area maps for the proposed project showing both existing and proposed drainage areas
and flows(with flow arrows)
3) Hydrologic,and hydraulic computations/modeling before and after proposed reconstructions(ie.,
Hydro-CAD input assumptions,calibration data,results for 10 and 100 year storm events).
4) An electronic copy of any computer modeling used for the hydraulic computations.
For questions regarding these comments please contact Bryce Fosand at 651-234-7529
Permits
As mentioned above any use of or work within or affecting MnDOT right of way requires a permit.
Permit forms are available from MnDOT's utility website at http://www.dot.state.mn.us/utility/
Please include one 11 x 17 plan set and one full size plan set with each permit application. Please direct
any questions regarding permit requirements to Buck Craig(651-234-7911)of MnDOT's Metro Permits
Section.
Review Submittal Options:
MnDOT's goal is to complete the review of plans within 30 days. Submittals sent in electronically can
usually be turned around faster. There are four submittal options. Please submit either:
1. One(1)electronic pdf.version of the plans. MnDOT can accept the plans via e-mail at
metrodevreviews.dotastate.mn.us provided that each separate e-mail is under 20 megabytes.
2. Three(3)sets of full size plans. Although submitting seven sets of full size plans will
expedite the review process. Plans can be sent to:
MnDOT—Metro District Planning Section
Development Reviews Coordinator
1500 West County Road B-2
Roseville,MN 55113
3. One(1)compact disc.
4. Plans can also be submitted to MnDOT's External FTP Site. Please send files to:
ftp://ftp2.dot.state.mn.us/pub/incoming/Metro WatersEdge/Planning Internet Explorer doesn't
work using ftp so please use an FTP Client or your Windows Explorer(My Computer). Also,
please send a note to metrodevreviews.dot @state.mn.us indicating that the plans have been
submitted on the FTP site.
If you have any questions concerning this review,please feel free to contact me at(651)234-7784.
Sincerely,
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Sr-
Karen Scheffing
Principal Planner
Copy sent via E-Mail:
Bryce Fossand,Water Resources
Ryan Coddington,Area Engineer
Nancy Jacobson,Design
Buck Craig,Permits
Tiffany Kautz,Right-of-Way
Kaare Festvog&Clare Lackey,Traffic Engineering
Russ Owen,Metropolitan Council