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CIfiY OF RICHFIELD
RESOLUTION NO. 7138
RESOLUTION DECLARING :THAT THERE IS NO POTENTIAL
FOR SIGNIFICANT ENVIRONMENTAL.EFFECTS-AND THAT THERE IS
N0 NEED FOR AN ENVIRONMENTAL
IMPACT STATEMENT FOR THE .PROJECT PROPOSED
BY CDR INVESTMENTS IN THE ILN REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AREA
BE IT RESOLVED., by the City Council of -the .City of
Richfield, Minnesota (City) as follows:
Section 1. Background.
1.01. 'The City is the responsible governmental unit for the
purposes of preparing an environmental assessment worksheet (EAW)
for the project proposed by CDR Investments (Project) in the ILN
Redevelopment District.
1.02. An EAW ,has beem completed and distributed to the
Environmental Quality Board staff, other agencies, and persons as
required by law.
1.03. Notice of the EAW availability has been published in
the official City newspaper.
1.04. Notice of the EAW availability has been published in
the EQB Monitor as provided by law.
1.05. The thirty-day comment period on the EAW as provided
by law has expired.
1.06. The City Council has considered the EAW and the
comments submitted by various entities and persons in response to
the EAW.
1.07. In determining whether the Project has potential for
significant environmental effects, the City compared the impact
that may be reasonably expected to occur from the Project with
the criteria established by law.
1.08. In determining whether the Project has potential for
significant environmental effects the following criteria have
been considered:
a. The type, extent, and reversability of the
environmental effects of the Project,
b. The cumulative potential effects of related
or anticipated future projects,
c. The extent to which the environmental effects
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are subjec~ to miti ation b on oin
g Y 4 g public
regulatory a~ithority, and
d. The extent to which .environmental effects can be
anticipated and controlled as a result of other
environmental studies undertaken, by public
.agencies or the Project proposer, or of the
environmenta~,~l impact.. statements previously
prepared on ~imilar projects.
Section 2. Findings of Fact.
2.01. The City. accepts and adopts the information,
conclusions, and determinations made in the EAW..
2.02. .The Project will generate environmental effects of
the type typically generated by similar office and hotel
developments. These environmental effects include traffic
effects, noise effects, air quality effects, sanitary and storm
sewer capacity effects, shadow effects. and soil movement.
2.03. The environmental effects of the Project, including
those referenced in the EAW, have been reviewed by relevant
public bodies and agencies in accordance with required
procedures. None of the pubic bodies or agencies determined that
the Project has the potefintial for significant environmental-
effects.
2.04. It is not ant icipated that. the cumulative potential
effects ~of related or anticipated future projects would add
materially to the environmental effects of the Project...
2.05. The City has conducted a study that includes an
intersection/interchange analysis. It is anticipated that. the
environmental effects relating to increased traffic flow with
respect to the Project I will be mitigated through City
participation in the I-494'Icorridor study .with the Metropolitan
Council and through furtherl,study and analysis, if necessary, by
the City of the design, of (1) the 77th Street/Lyndale
Intersection and its coordination with the adjacent I-494 _
interchange; and (2) the ',capacity of the following highway
interchanges: I-494 and Pe',nn Avenue; I-494 and Lyndale Avenue;
and I-35W and 76th Street.
2.06. In evaluation of the Project and in preparation of
the EAW, City staff has reviewed other environmental studies
undertaken by public agenciies and other -third parties and also
information previously prepared on other projects. The City has
sought to anticipate and control the environmental effects of the
Project as a result of revilew of these studies, particularly in
the area of traffic generation.
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2.07. The extent of .the environmental effects has been
reviewed by City staff and, to the extent possible, environmental
effects have been reversed in the planning process.
2.08. The potential for significant environmental effects
has been mitigated .because the developer of the Project has
agreed to-the following items:
(a) To explore a method to reduce the potential shadow
effect of the Project..
(b) That the total development of the site, including
the approximate 2.5 acre parcel north of the Project,
will not exceed the total square footage contained in
the Project and that the undeveloped land south of 76th
Street will be maintained as a green strip and open
space area.
2.09. The potential for significant environmental effects
has been mitigated because the City-has agreed to re-evaluate the
pedestrian safety situation at the intersection of Interstate 35W
and 76th Street and to take appropriate action, if necessary, and
to consider implementation of noise mitigation measures along
76th and 77th Streets.
2.10. The Project does not have the potential. for
significant environmental effects.
Section 3. Conclusion.
3.01. The Project does not have the potential for
significant environmental effects and therefore the City Council
issues a Negative Declaration declaring that the preparation of
an environmental impact staff
ATTEST:
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Thomas P. Ferber, City Clerk