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• Allen Avenue – Allen Avenue was rehabilitated in 2020 and had $66,500 of storm sewer costs. If those costs were assessable an additional $300 would have been added to each assessment, raising them from $2400 to $2700. • Greenbrier Circle – Greenbrier Circle is a full reconstruction project but it does not have very much storm sewer work involved so staff ran the numbers as if it were a rehabilitation project. There is approximately $12,000 of storm sewer work proposed for Greenbrier Circle. If half of that were assessed it would add $400 to each assessment, which is similar to the Allen Avenue example. • Old County Road C – Old County Road C has more storm sewer costs and fewer properties being assessed so the additional amount that would be assessed is $884 per property. That is a more significant number. Staff is seeking direction from the City Council regarding adding storm sewer costs as assessable costs. The Remaining Seven Streets to be Reconstructed: There are seven streets remaining that need to be fully reconstructed to an urban standard with curb and gutter. Most of these are short, relatively low populated residential streets but there is one fully commercial street with numerous challenges and one additional street that has commercial property abutting it. The Council indicated including language in the updated policy to keep those seven streets on the old policy, which means the capped rate will be calculated using the Consumer Price Index and storm sewer costs will not be assessable (though they likely wouldn’t be included anyway due to the cap). There is a chance there won’t be much difference between the two rates but if one or more of the streets are not reconstructed within the next ten years there may end up being a significant gap between the two indexes. Therefore, staff has added language to the policy that keeps six of the streets on the current policy. The remaining street, Woodlynn Avenue, is a bigger challenge. Woodlynn Avenue is a wholly commercial street with no curb and gutter east of the railroad tracks and very little in the way of storm sewer. Most of the stormwater from the properties abutting Woodlynn Avenue flows into the street and down the hill to one catch basin at the east end of the road. The catch basin outlets further east onto the St. Paul Regional Water Services Right-of-Way. Major improvements to the storm sewer system are going to be needed when the road is reconstructed to account for the water that the abutting properties are contributing to the street. The current conditions do not meet MS4 standards, and staff believes those properties should share in the cost of the improvements. If the Council agrees, staff will exclude Woodlynn Avenue from the roads that will use the current policy and will instead use the proposed new policy, which will assess adjacent properties at an 80/20 rate including storm sewer costs. The previous issues were the issues that arose from discussions between staff and the City Council at the workshop. The following report is the original report from the workshop.