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ASSISTING INDIVIDUALS WITH HOOKUP CHARGES TO <br /> i WATER AND SEWER UTILITIES RECEIVING <br /> AVAILABILITY FROM SUBDIVISION EXTENSIONS <br /> ? <br /> <br />Preamble: <br /> <br />Municipal sewer and water utilities represent a higher level of both treatment and <br />monitoring than are afforded by individual on-site systems. In addition, the City has a <br />significant investment in the infrastructure associated with these utilities and it is therefore <br />in the best intetrest of the utility to have as many available customers connected to these <br />ufi/ities thereby, reducing costs for all of the utility customers. For this mason, the City has <br />passed an ordifi, ance requiring hookup to the system within two years of availability to the <br />utility. .- <br /> <br />This compulso,ry hookup may cause property owners to incur costs which they may f'md a <br />financial burddn. It is then appropriate that some mechanism allow such property owners <br />to comply with! City ordinances, yet avoid unreasonable financial burdens. <br /> <br /> Policy: <br /> <br /> This policy sh ~a~l apply in cases where a property owner is subject to compulsory hookup to <br /> municipal se~ices due to the two year availability rule, with the exception that if the <br /> property ownei' has replaced either the septic tank or drainfield within a period of twelve <br /> months prior !o the sewer becoming available, the property owners shall receive an <br /> additional one .year extension to connect to the sewer utility. <br /> <br /> It is exoecte4 that munlcioal water anti sewer services will be extended into <br /> residential ai'eas wherein the construction project was petitioned against. <br /> In cases whelre the orooertv owner oetitioned a~ainst the oroiect, additional <br /> consideration~hatl be krarited. If-the orivate-seotic svstSm-is newer than <br />~--ten-(-l:0 yl~y~tis, then the municipal connection reqhirement ' e e e <br /> to the date dn which the system reaches ten (I0) years of <br /> <br /> It shall be the policy of the City of Ramsey to allow sewer and water hookup fees to be <br /> collected as a special assessment to the property, payable over a period no greater than ten <br /> years with inte,i'est on the outstanding balance, as a courtesy to the property owner. The <br /> interest rate to be charged shall be set from time to time by resolution of the City Council. <br /> the owner shall sign a request for this hookup charge to be implemented as a special <br /> assessment and! shall waive a right to a public hearing. <br /> <br /> Specific items eligible for consideration may include sewer and water trunk charges, the <br /> S.A.C. charge4, collected by the City and paid to the Metropolitan Waste Control <br /> Commission, alnd W.A.C. charges. Charges which shall be ineligible for consideration <br /> shall include ~e cost of building re-plumbing, sewer and water laterals laid on private <br /> property and a~andonment of private sewer and water utilities. <br /> <br /> This policy shall not apply to circumstances where a property is subdivided or a use more <br /> intensive than What existed at the time of availability is created. In such circumstances, no <br /> subdivision sh~l be allowed or plumbing permit for a more intensive land use be issued <br /> until the property owner pays the fair share cost of the improvement in present'day values <br /> that it would have paid ff it had been special assessed at the time of the improvement. <br /> <br /> Revised OctOber 24, 1995 0;~ ~,~3~ <br /> <br /> <br />