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Pequot Lakes Staff Report 4 (b) - 1 June 18, 2015 PUBLIC HEARING – PRESERVE GOLF COURSE Application: Conditional Use Permit – Conditions Review Applicant: Preserve Golf Course Agenda Item: 4 (b) Background Information: The Preserve Golf Course, located at 5500 Preserve Blvd. and accessed from County Road 107, was planned and presented to Crow Wing County in 1994. Because the proposed site, approximately 250 acres of virgin forest, ponds, and wetland, was in close proximity to Upper Cullen Lake, the wetland fens that flow into Upper Cullen Lake via groundwater, and two streams emptying into Upper Cullen’s west bays, the development was deemed “environmentally sensitive”. Because the three Cullen Lakes, Nisswa Lake, and the rest of the Gull Lake chain had the most at stake, board members from the Cullen Lakes Association, from the East Twin Lake Association, and the Crow Wing County Planning Commission created a citizens’ committee to act as an “environmental advisory committee”. AW Research Laboratories (Alan Cibuzar) and the MPCA (Joe Magner) were enlisted to serve as experts. This committee suggested 29 Conditions to be followed before, during, and after the construction of the Golf Course, conditions which the Crow Wing County Planning Commission placed on their approval of the Golf Course’s Conditional Use Permit (CUP). The Preserve Golf Course Environmental Advisory Committee includes: • Tom Beaver, Cullen Lakes Association; • Dawn Bittner, City of Pequot Lakes; • David Sjoblad, City of Pequot Lakes and East Twin Lake Association; • Dave Morris, East Twin Lake Association; • Sara Ahlers and Sarah Fogderud, AW Research Laboratories; and • Mike Bohnenstingl and Chad Bohnenstingl, Preserve Golf Course Because the conditions were created 21 years ago, many of them have been fulfilled, while others are on-going. At its meeting on May 8, 2015, the Preserve Golf Course Environmental Advisory Committee reviewed the existing Conditions and suggested the following revisions; Chairman Tom Beaver will be in attendance to explain the revisions: “Crow Wing County Planning Commission April 13, 1994 The following conditions imposed by the Planning Commission must be met by the applicant: Deleted: . Deleted: ¶ ¶ ¶ ¶