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OPPIDAR Builder of towns.Creator of value. 5125 CouNTY ROAD 101 • #100 MINNETONKA,MN 55345 PHONE:952/294-0353 FAX:952/294-0151 • WEB:www.oppidan.com October 16,2009 Ms.Dawn Bittner,Zoning Administrator City of Pequot Lakes 4638 County Road 11 Pequot Lakes,MN 56472 RE: Metes&Bounds Subdivision Grocery Store Development—Pequot Lakes,MN Dear Dawn: This letter shall serve as a brief narrative for the Metes&Bounds Subdivision Application related to the proposed Grocery Store Development on Highway 371,in Pequot Lakes,MN. Oppidan,Inc. is proposing to construct a grocery store and additional retail on approximately 6.5 acres of land. Project highlights include: 0 Current Zoning for the property is Commercial. • A grocery store of approximately 30,000 s.f. • Additional retail space of approximately 3,000 square feet,connected to the main building on the south side. • Gas canopy and pumps on the east side of the site. • New parking lot surface and lighting, designed to minimize the impact to adjoining properties. • New Landscaping around the entire site, including larger buffers to the adjoining properties. • Extension of a private sanitary sewer line forcemain from the building site to a connection point east,crossing Highway 371 and connecting to existing City service. • Extension of a new,24 foot wide private road, south of the site,for a distance of approximately 900 feet to connect with Pillsbury Street to the south. • Creation of two new pond areas to maintain water quality and volume runoff for the development. We are requesting a Metes&Bounds Subdivision of the area currently contained on two parcels that are currently part of larger parcels owned by Don Babinski. The purpose of this subdivision is to allow for the purchase of the land area required for the grocery store development being proposed only. Once the development has been approved and the land has been purchased,the new land owner of the parcels(from Mr. Babinski and the motel parcel)will make application for Preliminary and Final Plat of the parcels into a single platted lot. We cannot plat then entirety of Mr.Babinski's land,just the area we are purchasing. Therefore,the Subdivision will act as an interim step to final platting,once the land required is under common ownership. We are agreeable to the platting be a condition of the approval of the subdivision, once there is common ownership of the entire parcel.