Agenda - Public Works Committee - 09/16/2014

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3. Trails. Bituminous walkways and/or bicyclemulti-numose trails are not assessed, but rather funded by the City. New subdivisions are assessed 100% for bituminous walkways and/or bicyclemulti-numose trails. C. Storm Sewer Improvements Storm sewers are assessed on a project -by -project basis. Storm sewers in new subdivisions are considered an assessable improvement on an area basis. Oversizing costs due to larger mains and larger appurtenances are paid for by a combination of availability charges, user charges and/or trunk area assessment charges. Trunk area storm sewer charges are levied to all unplatted property at the time of platting, to re -plats that have not been charged trunk area charges when the land was originally platted, and to re -plats that have been charged trunk area charges when the land was originally platted but where the use is increasing (only the cost difference based on current and prior use is charged). The charges will be set in the annual fee schedule during the first City Council meeting in January of each year. Normally, storm sewers are assessed on an area wide basis (square foot or acres), but in certain situations the per lot method or adjusted front method may be utilized at the City Council's discretion. The replacement of existing storm sewers is assessed 30% with the remaining costs paid for by other funding sources identified by the City Council. D. Sanitary Sewer Assessments Assessments for sanitary sewer in residential areas are based upon the cost of construction of 8- inch mains, which is the smallest size installed in residential areas of the City. Assessments for sanitary sewers in commercial and industrial areas are based upon a standard size of 12-inch mains. Oversizing costs due to larger mains and larger appurtenances will be paid for by a combination of availability charges, user charges and/or trunk area assessment charges. Trunk area sanitary sewer charges shall be leave to all un-platted property at the time of platting and to re -plats that have not been charged trunk area charges when the land was originally platted. The charges will be set in the annual fee schedule during the first City Council meeting in January of each year. Services installed to individual properties are fully assessed to the benefiting property. Normally, sanitary sewers are assessed on an area wide basis (square foot or acres), but in certain situations the per lot method or adjusted front method may be utilized at the City Council's discretion. Lateral benefit from major trunk sewers or interceptors is assessed to the properties benefited by the sewer. Any oversizing cost is assessed as described above. The replacement of existing sewers is assessed 30% with the remaining costs paid for by other funding sources identified by the City Council. 10