04-14-2009 Council Work Session Packet

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• Spring Park, Minnetonka Beach and Long Lake plan to adopt a similar ordinance. • Council would get a copy of special event permits and solicitor's licenses that have been approved; could also be in Friday updates. 4. Engineer's Report a. Casco Point Reconstruction Project • Contracts are in preparation. The contractor has had some discussion about starting on Dunwoody with some interest in starting before school is out. Information will be added to the city's website as it becomes available. • Council determined there is no need for a neighborhood meeting. Residents will be notified by flyers distributed door-to-door with a phone number to call Jared at Bonestroo and a number for a recording to check the status of the project. The city also has a list of email addresses that could be used to distribute information. • There will be some tree removals due to utility work and Bonestroo has been working with residents. No complaints were received when Xcel was trimming trees earlier this year. b. Discussion of Highway 12 Sewer Improvement • Maps of existing sewer lines were provided. Sewer service areas were identified as Area 1 that flows to MCES lines and Area 2 that flows to Long Lake sewer lines. • Met Council contributed to upgrade of pipe when the Long Lake Fire Station was built by replacing an 8" pipe with a 12" pipe. Long Lake has 11 services using the line. Met Council could potentially take over that portion of the pipe because it was oversized to handle additional connections in the area. Kellogg will get more information from Met Council on the funding and agreement that was in place at the time of construction and bring back to Council in 2 weeks. • Options were discussed for sewer flows that will facilitate development of future projects in the area. Council favored Option 1. c. Other • Areas that need to continue connection to the Long Lake system include the properties at 20 Brown Rd S and 130 Brown Rd S. One of the property owners has requested an estimate of the charges to connect. The developer of Creekside created a system that surrounding properties (including these two properties) could connect to, but the developer paid all costs. A Long Lake utility agreement that was discussed about a year ago had proposed connection charges. Staff should refer to that agreement to determine reasonable costs for which the property owner would be responsible. • Myrtlewood project—An accurate number of those interested in water in the Myrtlewood neighborhood has been hard to determine as several properties are in foreclosure or transition. The original numbers of those interested in sewer remains about the same. April 28 was the original bid date but may be postponed a few weeks. • Staff is working with Wayzata to finalize a sewer and water utility agreement. Wayzata has asked for help in working with Wayzata Country Club to dispose of grease properly. A plan has been submitted to Wayzata to add utilities to the Kuruvilla and Comforts of Home properties. There may be a need to extend 12" water pipe from Wayzata Public Works to the Comforts of Home property. The Fire Chief will review for flow rates. 5. Crystal Bay Road City Lots—Response to Jon Eiss Request for pock • The city owns 4 lots on Crystal Bay Road through a quit-claim deed in the early 1900's. • Council discussed options for action related to the lots and preferred to "sell each parcel to its opposite off-lake landowner(the city acquired them by Quit-Claim Deed, so would have to sell Page 2 of 3