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the planning of the fire lane/trail. The fire lane/trail will be accessible by Public Works and Parks vehicles as well as fire equipment. Nordby described the revised drainage plan. The drainage off the property to the north was reconfigured and brought down to a grassy swale. Mr. Harrison can address this further should the Commission desire. Instead of taking all the water over the trail, it will go through a pipe under neath the trail for a one year storm. If the rain is a five or ten-year storm, the water will come down the swale and not go to 27th Street. The water may go over the trail because of the volume of the water. The water would slowly dissipate and go through the culvert underneath the trail to the pond. All the water from the bituminous area surrounding the senior building and some water from the south end of the extension of the driveway going to the north will go to the pond. We have softened the runoff by approximately 1.2 acres from what it is currently by using the pond and greenspace. Nordby showed the easements on the plan. Nordby pointed to the 20-foot wide easement on the west side of the west property line on the plan. We may overlay part of the trail and part of the fire lane over that easement. Nordby asked if the Commission had any questions. Zisla asked if Nordby had talked to the Ericksons about the left turn off Silver Lake Road. Nordby said he had not discussed it with Mr. Erickson, but at one time it was proposed to cut this turn off totally. However, his firm was able to rework the grades and maintain access between the two commercial developments. Gould said he met with the Ericksons on two separate occasions and made them aware of the fact that the access off Silver Lake Road and the easements that we hold do not impact them. Gould said he encouraged them to talk with us and I would assume we would get together with them in the future. Gould said he provided them with all the easements currently on the properties. In answer to a question from Zisla, Nordby demonstrated how the turns would be work on the plan. Zisla said the answer then is that there is still workable access to New Market off Silver Lake Road and you have talked to Ericksons and there has been no objection to this particular configuration. Teague said he showed Mr. Erickson this configuration, and he was receptive to this plan. Schiferl asked, assuming that this flies as is, would there be a stop sign or something on the private property? Schiferl said he could see an accident in the making. Teague said that was something to consider. Teague stated he would have the Police Chief and the City Engineer look at it. Zisla said that would be a good idea. Zisla stated the traffic flowing by Lund’s is a problem. Nordby said that may be very doable to put a stop sign which would take care of the southbound traffic. Also, perhaps one on Erickson’s coming northbound. There would be a problem with a stop sign coming up the grade in the winter. Zisla asked if the landscaping on the east was part of the proposal for this project or was it part of the commercial proposal. Nordby answered it is a combination of both. The required setbacks for parcels around the proposed property line are met. The green area would serve both of them. It becomes a 10-foot wide green area plus trees. Zisla asked if G & P was doing that as part of this project? Nordby answered affirmatively. Zisla stated he asked the question about the driveway easement because, if the G & P property has the benefit of the easement, it would seem to be better to have the trail there than to exercise the driveway easement. Livingston referred to a list of the various easements submitted by G & P. Livingston asked Nordby to go through the easements one by one. Nordby reviewed the easements on the plan. Livingston asked if the developer had any additional comments. Gould responded that in the past he had several meetings with the neighbors. The plan presented tonight takes into consideration their comments. Additional landscaping was added. Regarding the parking easement to Brightondale, since we have owned Brightondale we have never had one car parked back there by visitors to Brightondale. Even though the 9 I:\COMMISSIONS\PLANNING\MINUTES\1998\04-21-98.WPD