Fiscal Note
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Title
Authorizing the Planning Division and City Engineering Division to submit a request to the Capital Area Regional Planning Commission for a major amendment to the Environmental Corridor map to remove the approved The Turn at Cherokee subdivision and to allow grading within a wetland vegetative buffer, and to impose a building setback line on a proposed lot in the approved subdivision.
Body
WHEREAS the Common Council adopted Resolution 16-00184 (ID 41145) approving the preliminary plat and final plat of “The Turn at Cherokee” subdivision located at 5204 N. Sherman Avenue on March 1, 2016 subject to conditions; and
WHEREAS said subdivision includes 16 single-family residential lots an outlot to be dedicated to the public for stormwater management (Outlot 2); and
WHEREAS the 6.2-acre subject parcel on which said subdivision is proposed is currently located in a mapped environmental corridor that also includes most of the Cherokee Country Club; and
WHEREAS the subject parcel was recommended for future development with low- to medium-density residential uses as part of Sub-Area 3 of the Cherokee Special Area Plan, said subdivision being found to be consistent with adopted plan recommendations; and
WHEREAS a 0.05-acre area of wetlands exists adjacent to N. Sherman Avenue within the proposed subdivision in the area of the proposed stormwater management outlot; and
WHEREAS the adopted policies of the Capital Area Regional Planning Commission require that all wetlands and a 75-foot minimum buffer be placed into Environmental Corridor and that no grading in a wetland vegetative buffer be allowed within 30 feet of the wetland edge unless the grading is intended to re-establish natural grades or to restore wetland habitat, including for stormwater management facilities; and
WHEREAS the City Engineer has determined that Outlot 2 cannot be constructed without grading closer than 30 feet of the wetland edge; and
WHEREAS it has bee...
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