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If #05-3083 MUSA Anicndniciil! February 17, 2005 Page 2 25 Soulli Brown Road MUSA Expansion This is an existing developed properly located on Brown Readjust south of Watertown Road with a failing septic system. I'he house was constructed in 1940, and the eonstruction date and details of the septie system arc unknown. The property is 3.0 acres with 1 .5 acres of filled or disturbed soils unsuitable for septic with the remainder wooded. This property is in the 2.0 acre zoning district. In 1999, when the Fox Ridge area was sewered, a pressure sewer line was installed along Brown Road from the Fox Ridge neighborhood north to connect to an existing Long Lake sewer line at Watertown Road. At this time, sewer service was offered to the existing developed properties along Brown Road that were adjacent to the sewer. These properties were eligible for sewer using a pool of 50 sewer units that were granted to the City in 1994 when ten existing neighborhoods were added to the MUSA. Sewer service has now been provided to all of these ten neighborhoods. The properly owners at 5 and 15 Brown Road had nonconfunning septic systems and connected to the sewer line and were then added to the MUSA in the 2000 Comprehensive Plan amendment. At that time, the septic system was not failing and the property owner at 25 South Brown Road was not interested in connecting to sewer. This properly was inadvertently not added to the MUSA in the 2000 Comprehensive Plan update. There is a new property owner who is interested in connecting to sewer as the existing septic system is i: j w failing. 3’his new owner bought the property based on the availability of sewer. Tliere are also four properties ,to the south, on the west side of Brown Road that were offered sewer in 1999. These properties all have conforming septic systems and were not interested in connecting to the sewer in 1999. The 2000 Compressive Plan approval by the Metropolitan Council invalidated the pool of 50 sewer units that the City was granted in 1994 and under today ’s standards it would be very difficult to obtain approval of a MUSA expansion for 2 acre density lots with confonning septic systems. Tlierefore, these four properties are not being included in the MUSA expansion request. Process 1 he public hearing is the Hist step in the process for completing a Comprehensive Plan amendment to revise the MUSA. Once Planning Commission has completed the Public Hearing and recommended approval, a Resolution will be presented to the City Council for conditional adoption of the amendment subject to Met Council approval. The proposed amendment will be submitted to the Met Council on their standard forms with supporting infomialion, and also submitted to adjacent municipalities for comment. Once Mel Council has approved the amendment, theCitycan fomiallv adopt it by resolution. After the amendment takes effect, actual construction of sewers and the assessments for same arc topics primarily dealt with by the Council with no further Plannin Commission action required. Preliminary discussions with Met Council staff indicate because th^ area of the amendment is less than 40 acres, and because there are no impacts to metro systems th*^ amendment will likely be considered as minor and timely approval would be cxnected ' ^ ^05-3083 MUSA Amciiiliiienl