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! I I I I I i I I I I I I I ASSISTING INDIVIDUALS WITH HOOKUP CHARGES TO WATER AND SEWER UTILITIES RECEIVING AVAILABILITY FROM SUBDIVISION EXTENSIONS Preamble: Municipal sewer and water utilities represent a higher level of both treatment and monitoring than are afforded by individual on-sim systems. In addition, the City has a significant investment in the infrastructure associated with these utilities and it is therefore in the best interest of the utility to have as many available customers connected to these utilities thereby reducing costs for all of the utility customers. For this reason, the City has passed an ordinance requiring hookup to the system within two years of availability to the utility. This compulsory hookup may cause property owners to incur costs which they may find a financial burden. It is then appropriate that some mechanism a/low such property owners to comply with City ordinances, yet avoid unreasonable financial burdens. Policy: This policy shall apply in cases where a property owner is subject to compulsory hookup to municipal services due to the two year availability role, with the exception that if the property owner has replaced either the septic tank or drainfield within a period of twelve months prior to the sewer becoming available, the property owner shalI receive an additional one year extension to connect to the sewer'utility. . It shall be the policy of the City of Ramsey to allow sewer and water hookup fees to be collected as a special assessment to the property, payable over a per/od no greater than ten years with interest on the outstanding balance, as a courtesy to the property owner. The interest rate to be charged shall be set from time to time by resolution of the City Council. The owner shall sign a request for this hookup charge to be implememed as a special assessment and shall waive a right to a public hearing. Specific items eligible for consideration rn~y include sewer and water tnmk charges, the S.A.C. charge collected by'the City and paid to the Metropolitan Waste .Control Commission, and W.A.C. charges. Charges which shall be ineligible for consideration shall include the cost of building replumbing, sewer and water laterals la.id on private property and abandonment of private sewer and water utilities. This policy shall not apply to circumstances where a property is subdivided or a use more intensive than what existed at the time of availability is created. In such circumstances, no subdivision shall be allowed or plumbing permit for a more intensive land use be issued until the property owner pays the fair sham cost of the improvement in present day values that it would have paid ff it had been special assessed at the time of the improvement. Revised September 22, 1992. -112-