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Attachment C At the request of Mayor Roe, Mr. Fair responded to questions about storm water area ownership and maintenance. Mr. Fair advised that ongoing maintenance of landscaping and Outlots A and B would be based on a maintenance agreement negotiated between the City and the developer. Mr. Fair advised that, regarding Lot 6, the City of Roseville’s staff had asked the developer to create the Outlots versus a stormwater easement across those lots. At the request of Mayor Roe, Mr. Schwartz confirmed that, as part of a development agreement, maintenance of the storm water ponds would be addressed by the City at a later date; and costs of pond maintenance, as with a number of existing storm water ponds throughout and being maintained by the City, would be paid through the storm water fees paid by all Roseville residents. At the request of Councilmember Laliberte, Mr. Fair advised that the soil boring data from eight borings was currently being processed by their civil engineering contractor, and would be provided to City staff upon its completion. Regarding the potential for storm water running off this property onto neighboring properties, Mayor Roe noted that requirements of the City and the Watershed District did not allow new developments to have any additional runoff onto adjacent properties, and final approvals for any project would need to meet those requirements and demonstrate they do so; with both the City and Watershed following up on those issues, ensuring that there would be no drainage off-site. Councilmember Willmus requested additional information from the developer on curb appeal and aesthetics, especially for those properties on the south and their concerns with facing the garage side of the proposed homes. Mr. Fair, as the developer, advised of their intent to landscape Outlots A and B to hide the homes, and noted the proposed location of the garages to the left or right as detailed in the Preliminary Utility Plans (sheet 2 of Attachment C) showing the house pads and existing residents seeing the sides of the homes. Mr. Fair advised that the intent was to utilize as much side yard as possible for prospective homeowners, by trying to create Outlot A and B as an amenity and transition from the new neighborhood into the old neighborhood, with significant landscaping planned. In addressing headlights, Mayor Roe noted that anytime a new street abutted an existing street, the potential existed, but advised that there was not always a resolution that the City could require; confirmed by Mr. Paschke that nothing was provided in City Zoning ordinance that would address that issue. At the request of Councilmember Willmus, Mr. Schwartz advised that plantings in drainage easements were typically not allowed; however, there had been some past practice on a case by case basis depending on the actual site, for the City to work with a developer on a planting plan. Mr. Schwartz noted that the Outlots would provide infiltration-type drainage basins, and any plantings would be preferred within those basins. In addressing Councilmember Willmus’ concerns for screening headlights for homes north and south, Mr. Schwartz advised that each individual basis could be looked at; however, he noted that the concern would be that drainage not be blocked; and again