HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 2013-037 Approving Amendment to the City of Lake Elmo Comprehensive PlanA
APPROVING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CITY OF LAKE ELMO
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
WHEREAS, the City of Lake Elmo ("City") has established a Comprehensive Plan that
provides a compilation of background data, policy statements, standards, and maps, which help to
guide the future physical, social, and economic development of the City; and
WHEREAS, The City has received a request from the City of Oakdale to consider
participating in a joint project that would extend sanitary sewer service to a limited number of
properties along Olson Lake Trail that are currently on private treatment systems; and
WHEREAS, based on feedback from residents along Olson Lake Trail that would benefit
from an extension of sewer from the City of Oakdale, City has agreed. to participate in a joint
project to extend sewer to a limited number of residences in Lake Elmo, and
WHEREAS, this area was not previously identified by the City as a fixture sewer service
area and the City has therefore prepared an amendment to Chapter VI of the Lake Elmo
Comprehensive Plan (Wastewater Facilities) in order to revise the Metropolitan Urban Service Area
(MU SA) for the City to include homes along Olson Lake Trail that may be served by an extension
of sewer service from. the City of Oakdale in the future; and.
WHEREAS, the Lake Elmo Planning Commission held a public hearing on April 22, 2013
to consider the request to amend the Comprehensive Plan; and
WHEREAS, on April 22, 2013 the Lake Elmo Planning Commission adopted a motion to
recommend that the City Council approve the request to amend the Comprehensive Plan; and
WHEREAS, the City Council reviewed the recommendation of the Planning Commission
and the proposed amendment to the Comprehensive Plan at its May 7, 2013 meeting.
NOW, THEREFORE, based upon the testimony elicited and information received, the City
Council makes the following:
FINDINGS
1) That the Comprehensive Plan amendment would revise Chapter Vl — Wastewater Facilities
of the .Lake Elmo Comprehensive Plan to expand the City's MUSA boundary and to identify
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a portion of the residential lots along Olson Lake Trail that will be connected to municipal
sanitary sewer service in the future. Said Comprehensive Plan Amendment includes a map
of the properties to be served.
2) That the City has conducted a feasibility study that documents it is reasonable and cost-
effective for the City to provide sanitary sewer service to the identified properties along
Olson Lake Trail.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that based on the foregoing, the Lake Elmo
City Council hereby approves an amendment to Chapter V1— Wastewater Facilities of Lake Elmo
Comprehensive Plan to serve a limited number of residential lots along Olson Lake Trail with
public sanitary sewer service, subject to and contingent upon the following;:
1) Submission of the Comprehensive Plan Amendment to the Metropolitan Council and the
receipt of formal notification from the Metropolitan Council that its review has been
completed and approved.
ADOPTED BY THE LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL ON THE SEVENTH DAY OF MAI
1013.
(Seal)
ATTEST:
A am Bell
City Clerk
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