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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,August 27,2012 Page 35 ever, it doesn't make sense now without such a plan; and in the meantime, if the Brown-Wilbert firm wants to blow snow, it created significant drainage issues for adjoining residential properties. Councilmember McGehee opined that us- ing this little nibble on the side to mitigate drainage issues was not the type of solution the City should seek; and further opined that she could see no rationale for approving the request. Mayor Roe clarified that this request was a proposal by Brown-Wilbert to sub- divide property they already owned; and that City staff was seeking to create easements as part of that subdivision request allowing it some control over an existing drainage issue, and providing some improvement; with a more substan- tial project anticipated in the future. Councilmember Willmus questioned if the subdivision could be predicated on the easement and drainage occurring first. Mr. Lloyd responded that he didn't think that type of condition could be applied to an approval; and while not planning to make improvements, it relied on the City for further action to finalize an approval, not serving as an appropriate way to proceed. At the request of Councilmember Willmus, Ms. Bloom advised that if the City Council did not agree to this subdivision, it could obtain easements through pur- chase for a public purpose to mitigate an existing situation. However, Ms. Bloom noted that this is often a costly and time-consuming process, with the re- cent Macy's easement for sidewalk extension taking two (2) years. Ms. Bloom opined that dedicated easements were always preferable to having to purchase easements. At approximately 9:59 p.m. Pust moved, Johnson seconded extending the meeting for five minutes. Roll Call Ayes: Pust; McGehee; Willmus; Johnson; and Roe. Nays: None. Mayor Roe asked if the final evolution of the storm water management plan would provide larger or different easement than these currently proposed. Ms. Bloom responded that the drainage problems experienced in this neighbor- hood were only a portion of those experienced in the larger subwatershed drain- age area extending down past St. Rose of Lima Church, created by hundreds of acres of runoff going into a main pipe on Sharon Avenue east of here and closer to Sandhurst under the highway and eventually into Willow Pond and under the high school athletic fields. Ms. Bloom advised that the pipe was not adequately sized to handle 2-4" rain events; and resulted in the highway flooding creating traffic jams, or surcharging out of catch basins as it tried to find a way back to