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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION Agenda Date: May 18, 2020 Agenda Item: 9. Department Approval City Manager Approval Item Description:Adopt a resolution approving an extension of the validation of the approval of the Midland Legacy Estates Final Plat (PF19-003) 1 2 B ACKGROUND 3 The City Council rezoned 2433 County Road B to LDR-2 and adopted City Council Resolution 4 No. 11609 approving the Midland Legacy Estates plat on June 3, 2019; the final plat approval 5 resolution is included with this RCA as Attachment A. 6 City Code §1102.02.D.6 (Validation and Expiration of Final Approval) requires that an applicant 7 validates a final plat approval by filing the approved plat at Ramsey County within one year of 8 its approval and that the plat approval will automatically expire if it is not validated in this way. 9 Based on this provision in the subdivision code, the applicant would need to file the plat by June 10 3, 2020, in order to validate the approval and prevent its automatic expiration. 11 Notwithstanding the validation deadline, §1102.02.D.6 also allows the City Council to approve 12 extensions of the timeline if the applicant submits a written request to do so. Planning Division 13 staff has received a requestto extend the validation timeline for the Midland Legacy Estates final 14 plat approval, which is attached to this RCA as Attachment B. As explained in the request, an 15 easement encumbering the property was found after the final plat approval. The size and location 16 of this easement substantially interfere with development facilitated by the plat approval, and the 17 applicant is stillengaging with the title company to address this issue. The extension request also 18 indicates that the applicant expects to resolve the outstanding issues by the end of this summer 19 but an extension until December 3, 2020, could obviate additional extensions without adverse 20 consequences. 21 Staff would also note the Midland Legacy Estates final plat requested for extension herein is not 22 related to ongoing discussions regarding future development of the parcel at 2395 County Road 23 B, which is located on the east side of Eustis Street N. While the developer is the same, and the 24 land of Midland Legacy Estates could be explored for meeting the park land needs of the 25 proposed plat of 2395 County Road B, the merits of the projects are different. 9f RCA Page 1 of 2