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Schiferl stated the Planning Report says the soil would be stored from twenty-five to thirty months and the letter from the project engineer says the period will be eighteen to twenty-four months. Teague responded he extended the period to conform with their original request. Schiferl said the problem of dust would be significant. Schiferl asked whether the Planning Commission or City Council had the authority to review or revoke a Special Use Permit. Teague said that, if the City found the applicant in violation of one of the conditions of the Special Use Permit, we would first try to work with the applicant. If a solution cannot be agreed upon, Staff could bring the Special Use Permit back to the Planning Commission and City Council for review. Galina Israelev, Jay Whittaker, and Adam Kramer represented the City of Minneapolis Water Works. Baker asked what type of soil would be removed and what type of soil would be trucked to the site. Kramer responded sand would be removed and soils put back would be clays and topsoil removed from the site during. The contractor would be bringing in structural sand from off-site for use in the Phase 2 construction. Schiferl asked if the truck traffic would change when the project is finished. Kramer said it would not. Schiferl asked if residents in Columbia Heights have complained about trucks leaving debris or dust on the roads. Israelev said there have been no complaints regarding dust. The area is watered down every hour. Schiferl asked if there had been damage claims from nearby residents relating to the truck traffic. Kramer responded that is such a rumor; no one has come to the City of Minneapolis with such a claim. Baker asked why the project could not be extended for some months to spread the extra days into the final project. Kramer said the issue was the efficiency of the operation. The Contractor would be bringing in the trucks and doing the backfilling. If the period were extended, the backfilling would take place in the winter, when that work would be impossible to do. Baker asked if that would stop operation of the reservoir. Israelev responded it needs to be covered. Schiferl asked if there were other dust control measures that could give assurance to the residents to the east of the reservoir site. Kramer responded that watering and seeding were the only dust control measures known. Schiferl asked if there was a way to put in temporary evergreens. Eight-foot high evergreens planted close together might contain the dust. Kramer said he thought the dust would probably go over such an evergreen screen. Schiferl said sixty trucks per day, day after day is a lot of trucks. Is there a way the hauling could be extended to take place over the course of a year? Kramer stated that is exactly what the proposal would do. Schiferl said Kramer was saying it should be extended over one and a half to two and a half years. Schiferl said he would like to see that period compressed to something more than sixty-seven days, but less than is proposed. Kramer responded the schedule is not set up so there would be uniform trucking over that period, but that as soil becomes available it would be trucked into the site. There would be times that trucking would be heavier and times when there would be no trucking. It would depend upon the availability of soil. The idea of a two and a half year period is to allow the intermittent hauling of soil, rather than transporting all the soil in the 67- day period. It also allows the flexibility of getting the fill from other sites. Baker stated that the item is a public hearing and invited anyone to speak on the request. Alex Hartman, a neighbor to the east in Wexford Heights, stated it probably made sense to use those soils effectively instead of trucking soil in. However, that was not part of the original approval. As homeowners, we were surprised that the top of the reservoir was stripped and a big pit dug. As Teague mentioned, this was administratively approved, but the neighbors were never notified of this until after the fact. There is nothing we can do about that now, but the City should bear that in mind in making further decisions about the I:\COMMISSIONS\PLANNING\MINUTES\1998\08-18-98.WPD 5