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� <br />RESPONSE TO COMMENTS RECEIVED <br />REGARDING THE EAW DOCUMENT <br />FOR THE NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE MASTER PLAN <br />(DRAFT June 29, 2007) <br />Resident Comments <br />A. Ed Dickinson and Nancy Jacobson (3188 Asbury Avenue, Arden Hills, MN) <br />Comment: The math does not match for before <br />before and after totals are not equal. Please ex <br />Response: The land cover numbers have t <br />and after totals in the 2007 EAW. The land <br />response to comment I.A.2. <br />Y� <br />development, therefore <br />reconcile the before <br />�. are detailed in the <br />2. Comment: Comparing the 1986 EAW to the 2007 EAW illustrat�s���significant <br />reduction of valuable wooded/forest cover type that used to predorristaate the <br />campus. Wooded forests have significantly decreased since the Co lege started <br />building on the campus. In 1986 the wooded forest comprised 48% of total land <br />cover type before development. The 2007 EAW shows wooded/forests <br />comprising only 29% of the land.GOVer type. Explain the difference between the <br />two EAWs' woodedfforest lan���r��qes. <br />Response: The project site`� <br />has been gathered. The par <br />GIS data. There is one parc <br />parcel is the large Roseville <br />smaller parcel of 6.37 acres <br />the land surrounding it (see <br />>�t4.64 acres. <br />;`v �"�" .�sts of three parce/s for which data <br />r�ation ►iv��;'gathered from Ramsey County <br />69 acres in Arden Hills, direcfly south of that <br />�f 45.58 acres. To the west of that is a <br />�sists of a portion of Little Lake Johanna and <br />�nt 3 of the EA I/l�. The total parcel area is <br />In adi�i�ssing the land cover question, the Minnesota Land Cover Classificafion <br />Systerr� �'l��,1LCCS) Data from the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) was <br />used to gti` the breakdown of the land cover on campus. The development of <br />the MLCC �a began in 1998 and was not available for the previous EAW. <br />����� � � <br />For the 2007`� AW, this information was available for the Roseville parcels, but <br />� �� <br />i�ot for the qrd�n Hills parcel. An aerial photo was used to divide the parcel into <br />:- � �._ � <br />if�ek�atego�'re;s` used by the DNR for fhe Roseville parcel to provide the estimated <br />acr��ge af.l�nd cover types for the Arden Hills parcel. <br />The categories in the DNR MLCCS data for Roseville were as follows and were <br />divided into fhe EAW categories as shown below. <br />EAW Cateqories DNR Cafegories <br />Types 1-8 Wetlands Limnetic open water <br />Wooded/Forest <br />Brush/Grassland <br />Oak Forest <br />Deciduous trees on upland soils <br />Oak woodland-brushland <br />TKDA Project No. 13529.002 Page 1 Draft Date: July 9, 2007 <br />