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Regular Planning Commission Meeting Minutes – Wednesday, December 3, 2014 Page 4 Response Action Plan (RAP) was required, it would need to go through the Minnesota 142 Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), which the City Council was fully aware of. 143 Mr. Bilotta clarified that the platting issue is preliminary in nature and not tied to 144 environmental issues; and since this was being platted into one lot, there should be no 145 impact, and only affect how they place the buildings, with any environmental issues 146 known well before that time. 147 Vice Chair Boguszewski asked, prior to the traffic study and actual data being available, 148 did the City have a sense of how traffic had been affected by the WalMart Development 149 and the burden put on that intersection and immediate area. 150 Mr. Bilotta advised that another project was currently being designed near that 151 intersection, with traffic studies currently underway and would provide that information. 152 Member Murphy suggested the study include traffic up to County Road D and the related 153 issues created up to that point. 154 Mr. Bilotta advised that he would need to confirm with the applicant how far they think 155 their project would impact the area traffic. 156 If this project proceeds, Vice Chair Boguszewski questioned if this was a net gain of new 157 hotel units, with Mr. Bilotta responding affirmately. 158 Applicant Representative Jesse Messner, Cities Edge Architects, HRLLC 159 Mr. Messner advised that he and his clients had reviewed the conditions as outlined by 160 staff and they were in acceptance of all those conditions. Mr. Messner advised that their 161 intent was to continue to work with staff in meeting those conditions and moving the 162 project forward toward a spring of 2015 construction date. 163 Mr. Messner advised that a Phase I environmental had been completed for the site, and 164 he thought a Phase II as well; and offered to copy staff on both. Mr. Messner advised that 165 an outside firm and the MPCA had both reviewed those documents and the MPC had 166 cleared it. 167 At the request of Member Murphy as to what “cleared” meant, Mr. Messner advised that 168 contaminants had been found at one point, but after the MPCA review and remediation 169 to-date on the soils, they had cleared the site. 170 At the request of Member Murphy on how those soils had been remediated, Mr. Messner 171 advised that, with the documents not available to him at this meeting, he could not 172 address that question, but offered to provide the specifics to staff for dissemination to the 173 Planning Commission as well. 174 At the request of Vice Chair Boguszewski, Mr. Messner advised that he had been 175 provided with the additional Condition G prior to tonight’s meeting and as recommended 176 by staff, and that he and his client were in agreement. 177 Vice Chair Boguszewski closed Public Hearing at 6:53 p.m.; no one spoke for or against. 178