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The city has not developed a set of criteria for allocating the 50 floating sewer units to <br />specific properties. Possible criteria would be as follows; <br />A. Absence ofan alternate site. <br />B.Located in the shoreland district. <br />2. <br />3. <br />4. <br />5. <br />C. A failing system versus a non-conforming system. <br />The 50 floating units is not a large amount considering there may be several individual <br />properties adjacent to the city’s 10 hot spots plus other properties adjacent to past sewer <br />projects. If the city ser\'es five of the ten hot spots with sewer in the next five years, the 50 <br />floating units would provide for at most 10 floating units per project. However, that does <br />not include other properties which may be adjacent to older sewer project areas. It may be <br />helpful for staff to develop an inventory of properties that are adjacent to sew er lines in the <br />city that could potentially request sewer service - particularly those without an alternate <br />septic site. <br />The city has ver>' limited sewer capacity to serv^e this neighborhood, as well as the entire <br />Highway 12 area. This is a short temi limitation in that the Highway 12 upgrade project will <br />include a sewer expansion project. However, this leaves the city with very limited sewer <br />capacity until the year 2001 or 2002. <br />The neighborhood was advised that if they are served with sewer it would be through a <br />separate project and the costs of the project would be 100% assessed to the neighborhood. <br />An option discussed with the neighborhood was that the city could decide to serve the <br />neighborhood with sewer, and that the project could be constructed in 1997, but the <br />connection to the system would be delayed until the sewer capacity issue was resolved in <br />2001 or 2002. <br />The City Engineer has indicated that the trunk line of the North Long Lake project has <br />sufficient capacity to also serve the Homestead neighborhood. <br />Timing of Decision <br />Because the city iio'- we sufficient sewer capacity to serve this neighborhood for a five or six <br />year period, the Couiica ;i>ay want to put the required septic replacement on hold until the Council <br />can address the issues related to allocation of the 50 floating sewer units and make a determination <br />as to whether this neighborhood should be served with sewer.