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Consulting with City Engineer for Grading Permits

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The landscaper visits the Eagan Municipal Center to meet with an engineer regarding two residential projects that involve removing retaining walls. Even though the walls are being removed and not rebuilt, altering the grade of the land requires formal approval and adherence to local regulations. The importance of proactive communication with city officials and engineers is stressed to avoid potential red flags or compliance issues, especially when dealing with changes to land topography.

Goal: Obtain necessary approvals and guidance for grading changes from local authorities.

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all my raspberries? Now, I've got two project where I'm removing retaining walls and not rebuilding them, but I'm still going to meet with the engineer. Unfortunately, I can't get this guy to call me back. So, I'm going to go knock on his door instead. Even though I'm not technically building anything, I want to cover all my bases because I'm going to be altering the grade enough that it could raise a red flag. And before that red flag gets thrown in my face, I'm going to make sure that I got everything taken care of. So, let's see what happens. Now, I've worked many times with the city of Egan. And actually, they're one of my favorite cities to work with. These guys got it together. A few moments later. Well, I can tell you that knocking on the door works pretty darn well. The squeaky wheel gets grease. Not only did I get to meet with the engineer, but I convinced him on the spot to go out to both sites with me today. Let's see how this goes. So, that's what we're up against down there. We got to try to we got to get all the logs out. And then we got this wall that's already fallen down here. So, we got our game plan, right, Dave? We're going to put bologs or silk fence along the edge of the pond. Yep. Then we're going to actually use the street to drop our materials. We may have to bridge this area coming in. If we build a bridge using soil, we'll take it out. Okay, cool. Then what we're going to do is we're going to do a 2:1 slope down here and then reestablish vegetation. Okay. Normally it has to be a 3 to one, but because it's a un unmanaged slope, we can go two to one. Right. Perfect. How about the only thing again the the disclaimer, we don't allow you dumping on the street itself. So you can access from the street back onto the boulevard and dump it there. Makes our life even easier. Technically, that's a lie. I'd rather

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