1998-06-09 Pilot Response to Review
PILOT
LAND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY
June 9, 1998
Council & Planning Commission
c/o Mr. David Lund
City Administrator
Albertville, MN 55301
RE:Karston Cove First Addition
Dear Staff, Council & Commission members:
Pilot Land has received a copy of the NAC report dated June 3, 1998. Due to a conflict our engineer Scott
Dahlke with Meyer Rohlin will attend instead of myself. Pilot accepts conditions # 1- 8 and requests
condition #9 and #10 to be modified for the following reasons.
#9. Park dedication amounts referenced with each final plat must match the dwelling units proposed
with each final plat phase. The preliminary plat report outlines the maximum park fees based on the
dwelling units proposed with the project. In this case, the land area of 81,497 SF (1.87 Ac) for Highway 37
and Kadler should be deleted from the gross area calculation. Government is obtaining this land and had
use ofland by easement. Since Kadler has been discussed extensively for abandonment and vacation (it is
presumed the City would not refund park dedication money with vacation of roads) this principle is
reasonable. The remaining gross acreage is therefor not 21.01 acres but 19.04 Acres after dedicating a 50'
ROW for Hwy. 37. This remaining areas is the number used for park dedication purposes in past projects
and by state statute. At a minimum, staff has used the 25' and 33' right of ways for these roads and
requested we count the added IT of dedicated Highway 37 . This would create an amended gross acreage
of (21.01-1.36) or 19.65 acres.
19.65 Acres less Outlot A of 370,463 SF is 11.5 Acres. Park dedication required is 1.15 Ac. 12,239 SF is
dedicated with the plat or .28 Ac. which is 24.4% of the required land area. 38 dwelling units x 75.6% is
28.73 dwelling units cash of $1300 or $37,349 less trails built. A trail length of 850 feet is needed to
provide the access on Karston and 64th street. At $13.65 per LF of trail this represents a debt of $11 ,602.50
to release the final plat.
Therefore the condition should be amended to reflect the cash required only for the land platted into
lots, Blocks and streets of the phase one area. Or add the sentence, $11,602.50 amount to verified
prior to development contract execution by City Council.
# 10. Discussion at the Council level and with staff has indicated no issue with sewer capacity for all of
the lots proposed within Phase One as shown and platted in the first addition. Due to end lender requests,
this condition must be chauged to reference Council allocation of available sewer as it relates to
Phase Two and the extension of 64th Street only.
Thank you for your support of this project. We look forward to the construction soon.
Sincerely,
Cc:
Liz Stockman, NAC
Pete Carlson - SEH
Mike Couri - C & M
Attachments, plat, development plan
land dev: karcovO l.doc
13736 Johnson Street NE . Ham Lake, MN 55304 . 757-9816 . Fax: 757-4094