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MINIJTL'S City Council Oct. 7_6, 19E33 Imp. F33-?_1 Mr. I~ianson opened the public hear.in~ on proposed Improvement No. 83-21, idatermain the improvement of Arcade Street f:rom I,al7ore Road to Keller Parlcway Arcade Street by watermain. This improvement caas pet:i.ti.oned f.or by P'rank Prattalone. Agenda The Planner. reported Lhat the 1.Jniversity of. Minnesota has ex pressed Item No. 4 no opinion on the Improvement. Mr. Hanson pointed ouT, that iL the irnprovement is orclered a joint powers agreement wi.ll be necessar.y with Maplewood. 'Che £ngi.neer reported that there are two improvement hearings scheduled tonighto The other is for Viking Drive. Mr. Carley expl.ained that the City combi.nes improvements and assesses the average cost, so Chat everyone pays the same assessment rate. The total cost of the two improvements is about $99,000, Cost per. front foot is estimated at $37.52 wi.th T.he City pictci.ng up 20% of this. 7'herefore, the assess- ment to the property owner will be about $31 per front foot. This is about the same cost: as property owners pai.d last year. 'Che Pngineer explained that the Maplewood property owners would pay the full $37.82 per front f.oot as they are not contributing to the tax levy in I.i.ttle Canada. Mr. Pahey askecl i.f the watermain would go on the east side of Arcadee The ~ngineer replied that this is correct and pointed out that the sewer is on the other sidee Mr. Carley explained that there is no inCention of tearing up the street and the water.mai.n will go in on the boulevard. Where poss.ible the watermai.n will be tunneled under ctri.veways. Mr. Li.nder i.nformed the Council that he is agai.nst the improvement:. Linder pointed out that he has 220 feet on Ke11er Parkway and thi.s would result in about a$7,000 assessmenta Linder did not feel that the water.mlin would benefit him. Nardini poinCed ouC that some day watermain will go around the lake, and then Mr. Linder would not be assessed. Linder. stated that he cvould rather pay then as he only has 75 feet of frontage on the lalce. The Engineer commented that the Linder loC would only be assessed for 1.10 0£ froncage, or half ot the total. Linder stated that he did not want to pay for 1/6th of: an improvement that wi.11 benef:it Maplewood, The Engineer stated that without the Maplewood people, the assessment would be higher. Mr. Lon~; commented that he is in £avor of ti~e improvement. However~ I.,ong stat:ed that if the improvement coill service the Anderson development, then he would be opposed to it. Mrse Nardini replied that the City has placed a stipulation on this that the water will not be extended to the Anderson development. Pahey stated that only if Anclerson develops l.ow densi.ty residential will the City give them water, Yage -2-