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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES AUGUST 9, 1994 in the urban service area and where that justification comes from primarily is past experience. Schwanke estimates 20-40 hours to make the application acceptable. Bohrer will have to update some cost figures, because he already did his work for the previous council on the premise that the improvement downstream was going to be made by someone. According to Bohrer's report we need the 380,000 gal. per day to service the entire 440 acres that we originally planned. 3. Met Council contended that Lake Elmo had not provided diversity of housing. Approx. 30% off our city is in affordable housing. 56% of the people in the Old Village qualify for LMI (Low Medium Income) Estimated cost $3,500-$4,000 to prepare our resubmittal. Mottaz asked if we had this money in our planning budget. Finance Director responded its not defined as such in the budget, but we have money to cover under council contingency reserves, Schwanke explained there are a couple ways of looking at it. Short term: Capacity constraint if you are able to develop an interim system that addresses that constraint it opens up about 380,000 gallons a day of capacity. Doubts Lake Elmo would get access to all of that. During the planning amendment review, the Met Council and Waste Control Commission would probably call in the cities of Oakdale and Lake Elmo and say we do have capacity here, Lake Elmo is requesting a lot of it, we know Oakdale has capacity problems and would probably give some of that capacity to Oakdale. Long term: City would have to take a look at the entire 1-94 corridor looking at approx. 1,000 acres to be added and justifying the extension of Cottage Grove Ravine interceptor through Cottage Grove through Woodbury and to the southern border of Lake Elmo. Now the plans call for the interceptor not to go through the city of Woodbury. If it doesn't go through the city of Woodbury, Lake Elmo will not have access to it. We have sent a letter, spoken publicly on record, but as of yet the centralization/decentralization plans have not changed. Mottaz asked how much of the $285,000 can we assess to this 440 acres that would benefit: Schwanke responded it could all be assessed, as well as engineering, legal, and financing the plan. Kueffner pointed out that Clarence Enright owes approx. $156,000 (Wone Interceptor) in Green Acres which is a large portion of that improvement. As soon as that land changes hands, this money is due.