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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes – Wednesday, March 02, 2011 Page 14 County Road C2 go through; and related correspondence resulting in withdrawal of the 664 petition. 665 Mr. Carrier advised that he had previously spoken to City Engineer Bloom regarding 666 storm water runoff concerns; and had one additional question related to whether 667 additional storm water runoff from the street tot eh catch basin would eventually run into 668 the holding pond on the corner of County Road C2. 669 Ms. Bloom responded negatively, but deferred a more detailed response to the 670 developer’s consulting engineer, Mr. Wicklund. 671 Mr. Carrier noted that the area drained into Little Lake Josephine, and if the corner lot 672 was for a holding pond, it would serve to increase the amount of sand, salt and fertilizer 673 already draining into it over the years. Mr. Carrier questioned how often holding ponds 674 were dredged out to remove that sediment to avoid build up and drainage into Lake 675 Josephine and further deteriorating its water quality. 676 Mr. Carrier wished the developer well in building and selling homes in the current market. 677 Mr. Carrier questioned how the plat could represent a Preliminary and FINAL plat on the 678 same page. 679 Mr. Karri Sundstrom, 1160 County Road C2 680 Mr. Sundstrom observed that residents along County Road C2 and Josephine Road 681 continued to have this ongoing dispute; and questioned why another road from Lexington 682 Avenue through the proposed development would not solve the problem. 683 City Engineer Bloom advised that it was a safety issues, and was based on standard 684 access safety guidelines. 685 Jo Schwiff, 1233 Josephine Road 686 Ms. Schwiff asked that the developer provide their intent for the huge berm currently 687 across from Lexington Avenue, and whether that would be scaled back or what it would 688 look like aesthetically from the perspective of the development as well as from Lexington 689 Avenue and Josephine Road. 690 Catharina Field, 1136 County Road C2 691 Ms. Field expressed appreciation in the City listening to public comment. Ms. Field 692 expressed her major concern being that of drainage from the lakes to the apartment 693 building complex; and expressed hope that the developer took that into consideration. 694 Ms. Field opined that she didn’t see any issue with the overall development other than 695 traffic; and noted that Josephine Road residents were not the only ones that would be 696 impacted by increased traffic, but that the homes in the cul-de-sac would also be 697 impacted. However, Ms. Field opined that she didn’t see any benefit in opening up 698 County Road C2. 699 Zoe Jenkins, 2930 Fernwood (repeat speaker) 700 Ms. Jenkins expressed her appreciation to see Fernwood coming out on the east side of 701 the cul-de-sac, while expressing some concern with traffic impacts to her lot personally, 702 opining that Merrill and Fernwood would really be impacted as she suspected more 703 people would access the development off Lexington from County .Road C2 than 704 Josephine Road. Ms. Jenkins, in addressing her friends on Josephine Road, noted that 705 she had signed their petition in support of keeping the cul-de-sac on County Road C2; 706 and continued to support keeping it blocked. 707 Ms. Jenkins expressed appreciation to the developer on the proposed plan, even with the 708 loss of the woods; however, she reiterated her drainage concerns. 709 Bill Samayou, 2870 Fernwood 710 Mr. Samayou noted the perennial problem on County Road C2 on the south side with 711 traffic coming over the hill at a high rate of speed, and resulting accidents. Mr. Samayou 712 suggested that traffic engineers address that slope. 713