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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTEES DECEMBER 16, 1986 PAGE 3 C. Comprehensive Sewer Plan Amendments: City of Oakdale The purpose of the amendment to the Oakdale Comprehensive Plan is to update the plan to the year 2000. The City reviewed a similar plan amendment in February of 1986. One change since the February 1986 review is that Oakdale has taken out sewer districts 18 and 19 (see attached Comprehensive Sanitary Sewer Plan map). This area has now been removed from their request for MUSA line extension. The City Engineer feels that the previously planned rapid development in that area which could have forced premature sewer extensions through Lake Elmo to service that area of Oakdale. Oakdale does not intend to provide sewer to this area before the year 2000. A second concern is Oakdale's request for an extension of their MUSA. line to include sewer district 12A, generally that area east of I-694 and between 40th. Street and the Chicago & Northwestern RR tracks (excluding the Zycad development). Oakdale plans to serve this area through its own sewer system, and no connection through Lake Elmo would be needed at this time. However, Oakdale would like to connect service district 12A to a sewer line in Lake Elmo, if a. line should become available there. This potential impact on metropolitan sewer services would be beyond the year 2000 planning period, since Lake Elmo has not indicated any intention to provide such service to its west -central end of the community. If a request was made by Oakdale to extend sewer service through Lake Elmo prior to the year 2000, it would be totally inconsistent with the Lake Elmo Comprehensive Sewer Plan. A third concern is Oakdale's desire to route sewage flow from district 13 (between Eagle Point School ad loth Street) through a connection to new pipes to be installed, in Section 32 of Lake Elmo. The Lake Elmo Comprehensive Sewer Plan indicates that this is feasible, if Oakdale wants to pay the additional pipe costs. However, the related question is the fact that the City of Lake Elmo has declined to make any commitment towards construction of any sewer, water or storm drainage facilities in Sections 32-33 until development projects in that area show that the service is warranted, and that the City agrees with the proposed system design, location and financing methods. This City policy indicates that Oakdale should not expect to get consideration or approval of a sewer pipe connection through Lake Elmo until after the City of Lake Elmo has decided that installation of sewer pipe up to loth Street (the proposed connection point) is warranted. Pressure to get sewer pipe extended through Section 32 to loth Street ahead of the City's approval would be inconsistent with the Lake Elmo Comprehensive Sewer Plan and would potentially affect metropolitan systems. (The City of Oakdale indicates on page iii of their worksheet that metro systems would not be potentially affected by this proposed plan amendment.) A fourth concern pointed out by the City Engineer is that the number of households forecast by Oakdale is "far in excess of