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Mike Gaffron From: Jesse Struve UHUNU COPY Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 9:09 AM To: 'Chris Janssen' Cc: Melanie Curtis; Mike Gaffron Subject: RE: 990 North Shore Drive Chris, Thank you for inquiring as to what is required for the possibility of installing these stubs while the house is under construction. While there is sanitary sewer close to the property,there is no water lines anywhere close to this property and I don't foresee watermain ever being installed to service this property. Even though sanitary sewer is close,the City has no plans for expanding the sewer. There are reasons for this and I will try to explain briefly. Basically the Metropolitan Council Environmental Services (MCES) dictates the density of communities which are being served from their sewer treatment area or also known as the Municipal Urban Service Area (MUSA). MCES has dictated Orono have a minimum density level of 3 units per acre. The City has worked for a long time in establishing this and have areas of future higher density development in order to allow sewer connections for the existing low-density areas. This property is currently not defined within the MUSA so it has not been included in the calculations for the density level. Basically what would be required to be added to the MUSA is a Comprehensive Plan Amendment which costs money and is time consuming. The City has denied MUSA expansions for properties similar to this one (2 acre) because it adversely affects our density calculations and the City is currently right at the maximum density level. To make a long story longer, I don't see this property being allowed to enter into the MUSA unless MCES reduces our density calculations to allow more of these low density properties to be added into the system. If the homeowners are looking long term, I cannot say for sure this will never happen but the chances are not that good. I can say with almost 100%certainty that Orono water will never be brought up to this property because the nearest watermain is 1.6 miles from this property. I would not think there would be an additional permit because you are not connecting it to anything. I would imagine you would just have a line installed next to where the sewer line leaves the house to go to the septic system and is capped on both ends. Therefore, if in the future a sewer line is brought up to this property,you just connect it to the sewer stub and then to the house. At this time the homeowner would be required to pull another permit to connect into the system. Feel free to contact me with any additional questions or concerns. Jesse Struve, PE Director of Public Works/City Engineer City of Orono (952) 249-4661 - Direct (952) 249-4616- Fax www.ci.orono.mn.us From: Chris Janssen [ma iIto:miIIsconstruction(a)msn.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 10:09 PM To: Jesse Struve Subject: 990 North Shore Drive i