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TO: <br />FROM: <br />DATE: <br />Mayor and City Council <br />Ron Moorse, City Administrator <br />February 21,1997 <br />SUBJECT: Request for Sewer Service By "The Homestead" Neighbo»-hood on North Brown <br />Road <br />The city has received a request for sewer service from the Homestead neighborhood located east of <br />Brown Road directly to the south of the North Long Lake sewer project. A letter from the <br />neighborhood is attached as well as a map showing the location of the neighborhood. <br />This neighborhood includes eight lots with six homes. All six homes have non-conforming septic <br />systems. One of the six has a system ihat is beginning to fail. All of the lots are two-plus acre lots <br />and all have an alternate septic site. Because the systems are located within the shoreland district <br />the property owners have a two year time period in which to replace the septic systems. <br />Reasons for Sewer Request <br />The neighborhood is requesting sewer service for se\ eral reasons. <br />1. <br />2. <br />3. <br />If they build new septic systems, they would not have another alternate site. <br />New septic systems would substantially impact their properties in terms of loss of trees, and <br />one property would need to relocate a w'ell. <br />They would like to ensure that the North Long Lake sewer project trunk line is sized <br />sufficiently to ser\'e them at some point in the future. <br />Issues and Obstacles <br />Staff has indicated to the neighborhood that from a technical engineering standpoint it is <br />possible to serve them with sewer but there are a number of issues and obstacles that need <br />to be addressed as part of the city's decision regarding w-hether to serve the neighborhood. <br />These are as follows: <br />•. The neighborhood is not in the MUSA so that providing sewer would require one of two <br />things: <br />A MUSA amendment bringing their two-acre properties into the MUSA would have <br />to be approved by the Met Council. <br />B.The city may be able to use six of the 50 "floating" sewer units that were included <br />in the recent MUSA amendment. However, properties using tliese floating units are <br />to be adjacent to existing sewer. It is questionable whetlier this neighborhood meets <br />that requirement.