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CONSIDERATION OF APPROVAL, REJECTION, AMENDMENT, AND/OR POSTPONEMENT OF A REVISED PRELIMINARY PLAT FOR TURTLE CROSSING ADDITION. (GENERALLY LOCATED SOUTH OF EAST LINDSEY STREET APPROXIMATELY ONE-HALF MILE EAST OF 24TH AVENUE S.E.
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BACKGROUND: This item is a revised preliminary plat for Turtle Crossing Addition, generally located on the south side of East Lindsey Street approximately 1/4 mile east of 24th Avenue S.E. The preliminary plat contains 17.84 acres that includes Water Quality Protection Zone (WQPZ). The WQPZ area will be left undisturbed. The developer proposes one (1) single-family residential lot. In addition, rather than constructing apartments on the large RM-6 lot, the developer proposes 15 duplexes. For the large RM-2 lot eight (8) duplexes are proposed. With the remainder of the buildable area, fourteen (14) duplex lots are proposed.
Planning Commission, at its meeting of March 11, 2021, recommended to City Council the approval of the revised preliminary plat for Turtle Crossing Addition.
DISCUSSION: The proposed 2 single-family residential lots in this addition and 72 duplex residential units are expected to generate approximately 438 trips per day, 34 AM peak hour trips, and 41 PM peak hour trips. Obviously being below the threshold for when a traffic impact study is required (>100 peak hour trips is the threshold and because the access points are all existing, the developer's engineer was asked to provide only a memorandum documenting the trip generation characteristics of the application. The development is proposed for location along the south side of Lindsey Street just east of 24th Avenue SE. (See TABLE)
The proposed addition will access Tortoise Wood Road, which connects to Lindsey Street, as well as Glen Oaks Drive, which provides access to 24th Avenue SE. Capacity clearly exceeds demand in this area. As such, no off-site improvements are anticipated.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
1. Fire Hydrants. Fire hydrants will b...
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