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• CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION APRIL 21, 2004 APPROVED 1 2004 Street Reconstruction Referendum — Community Development Director Grochala 2 stated staff is requesting direction from the Council regarding street reconstruction 3 projects. Due to time constraints and project planning purposes the Council needs to 4 determine if a referendum for street reconstruction will be held in November of 2004. 5 6 Community Development Director Grochala advised TKDA is completing feasibility 7 studies for certain areas of the City that were authorized as part of the original Five Year 8 Plan. If the City proceeds with a fall 2004 referendum several questions will need to be 9 addressed. For example: 10 11 1. Should sanitary sewer and water extensions be included in the feasibility studies? 12 Most of the reconstruction areas lack these services. 13 14 2. If the answer to No. 1 is yes, is staff to assume that the City would facilitate the 15 Comprehensive Plan amendments that would be required in most situations. 16 17 3. Is there a standard assessment policy that staff should be using as a basis for 18 assessments for the street portions of the projects i.e., benefit, percentage of 19 project cost? 20 21 Community Development Director Grochala advised these are just some of the questions 22 related to proceeding with a project. If the City wants a referendum on this year's ballot 23 staff needs to begin feasibility studies. However, the City needs some procedural policies 24 in plan in regard to the projects. He stated it may be beneficial to do a City survey when 25 the Pavement Management Plan is complete. 26 27 Councilmember Reinert stated he believes the City needs more time for a referendum to 28 make a fair assessment of the process. 29 30 It was the consensus of Council to not include a street reconstruction project on the 2004 31 ballot. 32 33 MARILYN DRIVE/COUNTRY LANE UTILITIES PETITION, JIM STUDENSKI 34 35 City Engineer Studenski advised the City has received a petition from residents and 36 property owners on Country Lane and Marilyn Drive for sanitary sewer and water 37 service. When the City has received utility petitions from neighborhoods in the past, the 38 first step has been to hold a neighborhood meeting before any formal study is prepared. 39 At the neighborhood meeting, discussion are held regarding the public improvement 40 process, the City Charter, the location of existing utilities, and an overview of the 41 construction process. A feasibility study would follow the neighborhood meeting. 42 43 City Engineer Studenski advised the area of the petition is defined as Low Density 44 Unsewered Residential. It is outside of the Stage 1 and 2 Growth Areas. Country Lane is 45 outside of the MUSA boundary. 46 47 Staff is requesting Council direction on how to proceed with this petition to extend City 48 utilities.