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e e e . 3 ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNClL - OCTOBER 30, 2000 Ms. Garski stated she has discussed this issue with City Planner Chaput and Julie Wikelius, the school's Principal, as well as the Maintenance Supervisor for the School District. She added that nothing has been done to fix the problem. Ms. Chaput stated she was told the School District would look into the problem and resolve it. Mayor Probst stated that the Special Use Permit granted to the school was conditioned upon resolution of this problem. He noted thal another issue rcgarding the school was on the meeting agenda. He suggested that, with Council's agreement, City staff should be directed to follow up with the School District regarding the parking lot lighting issue and the potential revocation of their SUP if this issue is not sufficiently addressed. He added that staff should indicate that the City's interest in pursuing other projects in conjunction with the School District would be assisted by their immediate attention to this matter. Mr. Lynch stated that he met recently with Karl Collmark, a representative of the School District, who indicated that some lights in the parking lot arc on all evcning for security reasons. Ms. Garski stated she is aware of three lights which are left on for this purpose, adding that allthc other lights in the parking lot are left on as well. Councilmemher Larson statcd that the parking lot's security gates should be closed when there arc no events taking place at the school. He added this would provide better security than thrcc lights in any case, and thcre would bc no need to worry about activities in the parking lot. UNFINISHED AND NEW BUSINESS A. Planning Cascs 1. Casc #00-35, 3295 and 3301 Katie Court, Tran and O'Meara, Lot Consolidation Ms. Chaput cxplained that the applicants are requesting approval of a lot consolidation to combine two parcels, 3295 Katie COUlt and 3301 Katie Court, Zoned R-3, TO\vnhousc and Low Density Multiple Dwelling District, into one parcel. Ms. Chaput stated the applicants wish to combine the two parcels to be able to construct a single family home' on one larger parcel. The applicant also feels that one of the parcels, 3295 Katie Lane, may be unbuildable due to a pipeline easemcnt. This easement was used to servicc TCAAP from Minneapolis and has since been abandoned. However, the easement continues to show up on surveys because the nccessary papcrwork has not been completed. Thc easement is for a pipeline, buried at an unknown depth, which was required to he filled or removed when TCAAP had it abandoned. Ms. Chaput stated the pipeline is at least 12" in diameter and, if it still exists on any property, filled with concrete, would be costly to remove and could impair construction, depending on its depth and location. There have been no previous planning cases on thesc specific properties. Howcver, a variance was granted by the City Council in 1983 during the initial platting of the Katic Court arca to allow for a ten-foot reduction in the front yard setbacks of cach lot.