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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION <br />COUNCIL MeeT^^<ri <br />JAN 0 1 2000 <br />CITY Of Onui^v^ <br />DATE: January 10, 2000 <br />ITEM NO.; <br />Department Approval: <br />Name Gregory A. Gappa <br />Title Director of Public Services <br />Administrator Reviewed:Agenda Section: <br />Engineer's Report <br />Item Description: Request for Sanitary Sewer 809 North Brown Road <br />Introduction <br />We have received a request from the property owner at 809 North Brown Road for connection to <br />sanitary sewer. This property is located on the west side of North Brown Road and adjacent to <br />Dickey Lake. There is an existing pressure sewer line in North Brown Road installed in 1997 for <br />the North Long Lake sewer project. Several properties to the north were sewered as part of the <br />North Long Lake sewer project using the additional sewer units from the 1996 MUSA expansions <br />Comprehensive Plan amendment. <br />This property was existing developed lot with an older house that was demolished in 1996. In 1997 <br />preliminary plat approval was granted for a two-lot subdivision. After preliminary plat approval, <br />the lot was sold and the new owner withdrew the subdivision application. The property owner is <br />planning on building a new house on the lot and has requested approval for connection to sanitary <br />sewer. <br />The new Comprehensive Plan proposes a MUSA expansion for this area. With the proposed <br />future MUSA expansion, this property will be eligible for sewer in several years. Investment in <br />a new mound system now is not a logical idea. The City has fifty additional sewer units available <br />that were provided by the Metropolitan Council when the recent MUSA expansions were obtained. <br />These units are for providing sewer service to existing developed properties located adjacent to <br />sewer. The City required that these properties have nonconforming septic systems and not have <br />adequate replacement septic sites. These requirements were used to limit the number of units used <br />and not waste units on properties that could utilize septic systems. The number of units available <br />does not appear to a problem. We have only used approximately ten units in the last several years. <br />With the proposed Comprehensive Plan MUSA expansions, there will be very few properties <br />adjacent to existing sewer lines that are not in the MUSA. <br />This property does not currently have an existing house on it. There was a pre 1966 house on the <br />property that was demolished in 1996, so the lot can be considered previously developed. The <br />septic system for the old house was nonconforming. However, there are four suitable septic sites <br />available on the property that were located for the previously proposed subdivision of this <br />property. Therefore, this property technically does have adequate septic sites available.