Planning Commission Minutes 2022 09 08

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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes September 08, 2022 Page 4 of 13 private shuttles and a TDM coordinator that can work with the businesses is a goal. Staff are more focused on creating a structure that can sustain transportation and can adapt to technological transportation advancements. As far as targets and goals for 25%, staff are all hopeful that all of the city's developments continue to decrease single person vehicle occupancy. Diehl asks in terms of the traffic study, is this a consultant that the applicant paid for? Zuccaro says the traffic study and analysis is the applicant's consultant. City staff has been working with its own consultant to assist with the staff review of the traffic study. Diehl asks if staff can describe how the sustainability conversation went with the applicant. Did the importance of it come up? Zuccaro says it was not discussed to that large an extent. The focus was building to the 2010 GDP and reviewing the plat documents to ensure that they complied with the GDP. He does not recall a specific discussion or a request from staff for a sustainability plan. Osterman asks about the grading plan and cut/fill. She is trying to understand how much of the land will be left in a natural state. Zuccaro shows the area that is public land dedication and a trail/street being graded in. That is the largest undisturbed area. He shows a few other smaller areas that are part of the open space land dedication. One thing staff has been working on with the applicant is habitat restoration and the applicant is working with a consultant on that concept. Osterman says they are open spaces but will still be modified and left in a natural state. Zuccaro says they would have to be restored where they are graded. After that, the city will require that they restore them to a natural state. Osterman says given that is the case, has there been an analysis on the environmental impact? Zuccaro says with the GDP from last year, there was a wildlife inventory and that was not included in this packet but we can present that to the commission if needed. Looking at the subdivision criteria, there are criteria about preserving the natural areas. It does not mean you preserve every undisturbed area of the development. Howe says when the net public land dedication is being calculated, the northwest and pond area were highlighted. The land adjacent to Highway 36, is that also a part of the 69.3 acres? Zuccaro says the applicant is proposing an 18-acre area near Highway 36, which would be dedicated public land. Staff is proposing that remain private open land that is not developed upon. The net public land dedication numbers mentioned in the presentation do not include that number. Howe says when talking about grading, are we talking about preservation of trees and other things? Is it just flattening the land? Zuccaro says if you are doing grading and there are trees there, you typically remove those trees. Howe says if you are grading the majority of that site for construction, he imagines it would be difficult to leave certain parts ungraded and natural because it would affect the areas that are graded. Zuccaro says yes, you would have to be thoughtful of the places undisturbed still working within the drainage plan. Krantz says a part of the subdivision application should show trees and other natural features. She does not think that was included in the packet and believes that is a requirement for a preliminary plat. She would like to be able to see where those would be on the site.