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Council continues Stanley Street sewer reimbursement hearing after property owner challenges acreage method
Summary
City staff presented a sewer and water reimbursement request for Stanley Street citing total costs of $158,634 (sewer) and $174,346 (water); the property owner argued the city should prorate by number of lots, not acreage, and the council continued the hearing for further review and legal counsel.
City staff and an applicant presented competing methods for calculating how to reimburse a private developer who extended sewer and water mains on Stanley Street, and the council agreed to continue the public hearing to allow staff and the applicant to resolve new technical material.
At a Dec. 9 meeting, a staff presentation described sewer construction of an 8-inch main (approximately 460 feet) and a 6-inch water main (approximately 650 feet). Staff cited city ordinance provisions governing developer reimbursement and laid out an area-based, pro rata approach: divide the total reimbursable cost by a 19.76-acre benefit area to compute an acreage-per-unit assessment (roughly $8,028 per acre for the sewer demonstration and $8,823 per acre for water). Staff also noted two parcels were owned by the applicant at the time of construction…
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