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Council gives staff direction on High Point Crossing sketch plan, asks for standards review on rural roads and pipe materials
Summary
Council provided guidance on the High Point Crossing 18-lot residential estate concept: generally supportive of rural-road flexibility and wetlands/ponds on lots with reservations about maintenance; asked staff to draft rural-road standards, study a concrete ribbon edge, and return with public-works feedback on allowing PVC water mains as a city standard.
The Lake Elmo City Council on Tuesday provided nonbinding direction to staff on the High Point Crossing revised concept plan, an approximately 80-acre proposal that would develop roughly 18 residential estate lots with private septic systems and a required roadway connection to Imperial Avenue.
Planning staff and Senior Engineer Jack Griffin told council the resubmitted concept meets many zoning standards but raised three principal engineering concerns: (1) staff recommends an urban road section rather than the developer’s proposed…
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