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-30- Ln researching the modified method, by decreasing the lot size from 20 acres to l0 acres and increasing the impervious percentage fi'om I5% to 20%, there would be 2 parceis affected and th. is would amount to a decrease in revenue by $1,772/year. (The parcels that would be affected by this change would be New Song Church and Diamond's Sports Bar.) ' I Decreasing the [et size criteria to 5 acres and increasing the impervious percentage criteria to 25% (which is close to residential), there would only 2 more parcels that would be affected and this w[uid amount to a total decrease in revenue of $2,760/year. (The additional parcels that would be affected by chis change would be Northern Counties Secretarial Services and Craftsman Concrete.) Civ./Staff recommends changing the resolution establishing the credits available for the storm' drainage utilky credits to 5 acres and 25% criteria. This would allow any property, o~er than residential, larger than 5 acres that is developed less imensively than residential property the opportunity to apply for ri-tis credit, Re~roactivi .ty The issue of retroactivity must be looked at from two different aspects. The existing Ordinance and resolutions do not allow rerroactiviqy since Staff does not believe that when someone' makes an application for a credit two years from now that credit should be retroactive to the implementation of the charge. Staff does betieve, however, that in this in/rial implementation phase of ~e storm drainage utility, they should, be retroactive since the property owners did not have the ability to apply for a credit prior to the charge be/ns introduced onto their bill. Discussion was held at the 1 i/2i/00 Public Works Committee regarding the issue of retroactivitT. The consensus of the committee was that we should write an article in the Rarnsey Resident and pubticize that any credit application received at City Hall before a certain date would allow retroactiviry to the be~rming of the charge. The deadline for articles to be written for the Jan/Feb issue of the Ramsey Resident is December 8, 2000. We will try to get the article published in that issue, however, since the City Council is meeting on th_is issue tonight (!2/12/00), we can.not fully write the article until we receive at1 of yom- input, lYalI goes -,~ell and we get the article in that issue, we will set the deadline for credit application requests for Februaw 28,2001. City Staff recommends that any correspondence written prior to February 28, 2001, regarding requests for credits that are currently available entitles that property owner to retroact/vity. This is, of course, contingent upon the successful approval of the credit application. This will ~ve the City an oppormnipy to write an article in the lan/Feb issue of ~e Ramsey Resident and process the . requests before the next billing cycle. Potential increase in credit percentages M.r. Gary, Graber had mentioned that there were other municipalities that offer credits of up to 80%. Through past experience, Staff knows this to be true, however, we do think the reason there is an opportunity for larger credits available at other municipalities stems from the land use structure that is used so orren in the implementation of storm drainage utilities. Wr~en deten'nining what a particular land use should pay per acre, there are assumptions that are made regarding percent impervious that are not necessary for Ramsey's utility. For example, the commercial / industrial land use Ls~pically is approximately 70-75% impervious and therelbre gets a Residential Equivalence Factor of around 5. Diamonds Sports Bar has an impervious percentage of 20%, which is equivalent to a KEF of 1.82 in Ramsey's system. Had Diamond's been in a Cig/that used !and use instead of Ramsey he would sta~ed out with a quarterly fee of $2,096.64 instead of $763.06 I I I I .I I I I I I I I I I I