HomeMy WebLinkAbout2015-03-25 TPC Ltr to Applicant Re Submittal Materials & Meeting TP 3601 Thurston Avenue N, Suite 100
Anoka, MN 55303
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March 25, 2015
Kyle Colvin
Metropolitan Council
390 Robert Street North
St Paul, Minnesota 55101
RE: Oak Park Heights — St. Croix Valley Wastewater Treatment Plant—
Conditional Use Permit Application for Upgrades to Aeration Piping and
Outfall Piping.
FILE NO: 236.02 — 15.02
Dear Mr. Colvin:
The City is in receipt of your a pp lication materials submitted on March 17, 2015 for
improvements at the St. Croix Valley Wastewater Treatment Plant in Oak Park Heights.
The application consists of a Conditional Use Permit for upgrades to aeration piping and
outfall piping at the plant. With this letter we are notifying you that the application is not
complete. The City will deem it complete with receipt of the following items by April 1,
2015:
1. Provide mailing labels from Washington County, 500 feet from the property lines.
2. Provide a narrative with a more detailed description of the project with timelines
for construction.
3. Provide a legal description of the property.
4. As indicated in the email from Kathy Widin, the City Arborist, the following is
required. "The tree inventory included only the construction area, not the whole
site. In order to calculate the Tree Replacement Requirement for this project, per
the Oak Park Heights Tree Protection Ordinance, an inventory of all the
significant trees (deciduous trees 8 in. in diameter and greater (silver maple and
cottonwood in floodplain area 12 in., or evergreens 10 ft. tall and greater) would
need to be done for the entire property. A value needed for the Tree
Replacement Requirement calculation is "total diameter inches of significant
trees situated on the land". The trees being preserved on the rest of the site
would reduce the tree replacement requirement for the project."
Kyle Colvin
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Staff reviewed the application materials at a meeting on March 25, 2015. We would
invite you and your representatives to a staff meeting on April 1, 2015 at 10:30 AM at
City Hall to discuss these issues and address any questions you may have.
If all of the application materials are submitted as requested, the Planning Commission
would consider the application at a meeting scheduled for April 16, 2015 at 7:00 PM in
the City Hall Council chambers.
Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes 15.99, Sub. 3(f), the City of Oak Park Heights is
herewith extending the period of time for agency/city review of the application for an
additional 60 day period (for a total of 120 days from the date of a complete application)
inasmuch as the City has determined that additional research and study by the City staff
relative to the complexity of the project as proposed will be required.
Please contact me
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with any questions you may have.y Sincer ly,
Scott D. Richards, AICP — City Planning Consultant to the City of Oak Park Heights
The Planning Company LLC
c: Eric Johnson
Julie Hultman
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