HomeMy WebLinkAbout#25 - Heritage Farms Sanitary Sewer Extension STAFF REPORT
DATE: October 16, 2018
REGULAR
ITEM #: 25
AGENDA ITEM: Heritage Farms Subdivision Sanitary Sewer Petition – Accept Petition and
Defer Preparation of a Feasibility Report
SUBMITTED BY: Jack Griffin, City Engineer
REVIEWED BY: Kristina Handt, City Administrator Rob Weldon, Public Works Director Chad Isakson, Assistant City Engineer
ISSUE BEFORE COUNCIL: Should the City Council accept a Petition for municipal sanitary sewer service for the Heritage Farms Subdivision and defer the preparation of the Feasibility Report to be completed in conjunction with the Heritage Farms Street and Drainage Improvements Feasibility Report, currently scheduled in the Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) for 2020? BACKGROUND AND PROPOSAL DETAILS/ANALYSIS: A petition requesting municipal sanitary sewer service was received from the Heritage Farms Subdivision in August 2018. The petition was signed by 32 of the 44 properties abutting the requested improvements as reviewed and verified by the City Clerk.
The Heritage Farms Subdivision is located near Manning Avenue and 30th Street, just south of the Village Area MUSA. In order to provide sanitary sewer service to the Heritage Farms neighborhood a Feasibility Report would need to be completed to review the feasibility and capacity of connecting to the Village area
sewer system together with the estimated project costs and assessments. If the improvements are found to be feasible, a Comprehensive Plan Amendment would be required to bring the subdivision within the Village Area MUSA before constructing the project.
Street and drainage Improvements for the Heritage Farms neighborhood are currently scheduled in the City CIP, to be constructed in 2020. Therefore, staff is recommending that the feasibility report for sanitary sewer be deferred to be completed in conjunction with the Street and Drainage Improvement Feasibility Report and if the project is implemented that the improvements be completed as one project. To maintain a 2020 implementation schedule staff will ask for authorization to initiate the feasibility report in the summer of 2019.
RECOMMENDATION: Staff is recommending that the City Council approve a resolution declaring adequacy of the petition for municipal sanitary sewer service for the Heritage Farms Subdivision and deferring the preparation of the Feasibility Report to be completed with the Heritage Farms Street and Drainage Improvements Feasibility Report in 2019. The recommended motion for this action is as follows:
“Move to approve Resolution No. 2018-122, Declaring the Adequacy of the Heritage Farms Petition for Municipal Sanitary Sewer Service and Deferring the Preparation of a Feasibility Report.” ATTACHMENTS: 1. Resolution Declaring Adequacy of Petition and Deferring the Feasibility Report. 2. Heritage Farms Subdivision – Petition for Sanitary Sewer Service.
3. Heritage Farms Subdivision – Location Map.
CITY OF LAKE ELMO
WASHINGTON COUNTY STATE OF MINNESOTA RESOLUTION NO. 2018-122
A RESOLUTION DECLARING ADEQUACY OF THE HERITAGE FARMS PETITION FOR MUNICIPAL SANITARY SEWER SERVICE AND DEFERRING THE PREPARATION OF THE FEASIBILITY REPORT WHEREAS, a petition was received from the owners of real property abutting Lisbon Avenue North, Lisbon Court North, and 30th Street Court North in the Heritage Farms Subdivision, requesting municipal sanitary sewer service; and WHEREAS, street and drainage improvements for Lisbon Avenue North, Lisbon Court North, and 30th Street Court North in the Heritage Farms Subdivision, is currently programmed in the City’s Capital Improvement Plan for year 2020, and WHEREAS, it is proposed to assess all or a portion of the cost of these improvements pursuant to the City’s Special Assessment Policy and Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 429.
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, 1. The Petition requesting the improvements is hereby declared to be signed by the required
percentage of owners of property affected thereby. This declaration is made in conformity to Minnesota Statutes 429.035.
2. The Petition for the proposed improvements is hereby referred to the City Engineer and FOCUS Engineering, Inc., to complete a feasibility report in accordance with Minnesota Statues, Chapter 429 for the proposed improvements, and to report to the council in a preliminary way as to whether the proposed improvement is necessary, cost-effective, and feasible; whether it should best be made as proposed or in connection with some other improvement; the estimated cost of the improvement as recommended; and a description of the methodology used to calculate individual assessments for affected parcels. 3. The preparation of the Feasibility Report shall be deferred until such time that the Council authorizes the preparation of the Feasibility Report for the Street and Drainage Improvements for the Heritage Farms Subdivision, currently in the Capital Improvement Plan for year 2020.
ADOPTED BY THE LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL ON THE SIXTEENTH DAY OF OCTOBER, 2018. CITY OF LAKE ELMO
By: __________________________ Mike Pearson (Seal) Mayor ATTEST: ________________________________ Julie Johnson City Clerk
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