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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, April 22, 2019 Page 7 c. Consider a Request by Hand in Hand (HIH Christian Montessori, in Coop- eration with the Department of Military Affairs, for approval of the Final Plat of McCarrons Hill (PF18-016) City Planner Thomas Paschke summarized the request as detailed in the RCA of this date; and noted a bench handout incorporated into the RCA providing an ex- tract of City Council meeting minutes of April 22, 2019. Councilmember Willmus stated the preliminary stage, with the preliminary plat parcels, were mis-identified or mis-labeled as Industrial rather than Institutional and he wondered if those corrections were made. Mr. Paschke thought those corrections were done on the plat that came forward and should be correct on the final plat. Councilmember Etten stated on the southern portion along North McCarron's Boulevard, along the corner of William Street and heading east for about a hun- dred yards, there is a fairly significant retaining wall. There was discussion about moving that in order to make that corner more visible for people coming around the corner westbound on McCarrons. This proposed grading plan gets rid of that but the preliminary plat leaves a pretty significant grade shift as well as signifi- cant sculpting of earth. He thought the norm of earth moving is six feet in a spot and this is between four and ten feet throughout the property. He asked whether there was some form of that wall, a lower form, or moving back of that away from the intersection, would the developer be able to save some of this significant grade scraping that is happening on other parts of the property. City Engineer Freihammer stated to accommodate the current grades with the roadway and with the lots and without increasing the size of the wall significantly, the developer would not be able to obtain that. Councilmember Etten stated one of the other things discussed was treatment of water in this situation. Right now, the land is not level because the wall is there with less grade shift. He wondered if there has been any discussion regarding rain gardens or other opportunities along North McCarrons to catch some water runoff that will be coming southbound off Lots 4 and 5. Mr. Freihammer stated staff did look at that and one of the issues is that although the grade is coming down, the topography of the site works against the installation of a rain garden. Some retaining walls would need to be installed to get a raingarden in. The project does meet the requirements of stormwater that at least the north half of the two properties drain to the north as well as all of the back properties drain to the current basin proposed. It is meeting the requirements and there should be less runoff even though it will be developed at the current condi- tion it is already in.