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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,January 30,2023 Page 12 Community Development Director Janice Gundlach briefly highlighted this item as detailed in the Request for Council Action and related attachments dated January 30, 2023. Ms. Rita Trapp, HKGi, made a presentation on Roseville's Shoreland Ordinance. Councilmember Etten indicated on the stormwater management overlay, he won- dered if the rules for those properties, one hundred feet from the stormwater ponds be essentially the same as what is being seen in the overlay district. Ms. Trapp explained those are rules regarding buffers of wetlands and what can be done within those areas. She indicated impervious surface is managed through the shoreland as well as through the stormwater but she noted she would have to check on that. Councilmember Etten explained if someone is seeking a variance to a shoreland setback then the person would need to do the twenty percent but he wondered if that would depend on the size of the variance because a different variance might have a larger impact. He asked if a minimum standard is going to be set or would the only standard shift. Ms. Trapp explained she would interpret this as the minimum standard that is the threshold that needs to be applied if someone is going to ask for a setback or im- pervious surface. There is always an opportunity with conditions for variances to adjust those conditions based on the magnitude. This is not setting a threshold from her perspective. It would be something the Planning Commission would look at and the Planning Commission and the City Council would be able to add additional conditions if needed. These are the ones to start with. Ms.Gundlach noted the DNR would be a review party associated with that variance application.Depending on what is negotiated between the property owner,the Plan- ning Commission,the Variance Board and the City Council,the DNR gets to weigh in on that as well. Councilmember Etten indicated on the map of water bodies, there are some water bodies that are clearly not lakes and are more in the ditch category. But there are few that are not buffered on the map so he wondered if there was a reason, a certain acreage or size of water body before it counts for this regulation. Mayor Roe thought the simple answer to this was that the main bodies of water are designated by the DNR and the other ones are designated by the City. He imagined the only ones shown are those that are actually designated by the City. Ms. Trapp explained these are historically designated and a change was not made and no new bodies of water were added but there were bodies of water that were