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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,May 11, 2015 Page 10 Councilmember McGehee expressed her concern that developers and/or contrac- tors continue to be held accountable. At the request of Councilmember McGehee, Mr. Paschke offered to be the point person or liaison person managing environmental aspects of this project moving forward. Community Development Director Paul Bilotta further expanded staff's response and clarified that the MPCA would continue to handle environmental issues for developers and their various engineering firms. Mr. Bilotta further noted that the City was developing its own Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to establish quali- fied consultants to review developer environmental issues, in addition to the nor- mal review by the City's Building Inspection and Engineering/Public Works De- partments as part of the plan approval process and their oversight of how materi- als are disposed of, all part of staff's oversight of construction sites. Also in response to wetland concerns, Public Works Director Culver noted on preliminary maps the location of smaller wetlands shown on the west side of Langton Lake Park and addressed current drainage of the site into the Iona and Mt. Ridge drainage systems, as well as other areas, with runoff from the site cur- rently flowing to that system north and west along Iona and north into the existing Wilson Pond in the northeast corner of County Road C-2 and Cleveland Avenue. Mr. Culver advised that drainage of this site was currently and would continue to flow there; however, as part of the development, he noted required stormwater features including an underground stormwater storage system. Mr. Culver noted this would result in less overall runoff from the site, which would of course be rate controlled, but not flow into Langton Lake Park or its adjacent wetlands. In her role testing the water quality of Langton Lake, Councilmember McGehee noted that the lake was fed largely by stormwater, and questioned if future runoff was filtered into an underground tank system, would future levels on the lake be negatively impacted. Councilmember McGehee suggested some consideration be given to maintaining a reasonable level for the lake in the future, rather than cap- turing it all and sending it elsewhere. Mr. Culver duly noted that suggestion, clarifying that proposed stormwater man- agement would be addressed around this site as well as if and when future devel- opment occurs in the area. As often seen with construction projects and a material handling plan addressing how to deal with dust (e.g. watering it down to minimize it), Mayor Roe ques- tioned who would be responsible for street sweeping as trucks leave site, since he did not see that addressed in the RERW.